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Thanks dudes! What about for wine and mead yeasts? I'm assuming a juice of some sort would be needed?

Thanks for the replies! What method do people prefer for harvesting the yeast after it has multiplied? I assume if you just dump the starter wort right into your fermenter you will always need to match your extracts?

Interesting stuff! I had read some stuff on yeast starters, but some people have said they weren't necessary. Amazing they don't mention this in the instructions...Anyone have any good resources on making simple starters? Do you need to match the malt used in the starter with the malt in the wort?

Hey everyone, So I will be making a few high gravity beers coming up here in the near future. A belgian triple, a IIPA, and a mead. The two ales are from a kit, and I will make a few alterations. The kits recommend their specific varieties of yeast, which I have ordered with the kits, but I am...

Well this morning I'm still getting a bubble every 90 seconds or so. Not sure if that's much but it's something!

So after putting the temperature up a bit and giving the carboy a bit of a rock (being careful not to splash too much around), the airlock is bubbling again at about 1 bubble/45 seconds. Is this a good sign, or did I just aerate the beer again....Keeping in mind the beer has been in there for 2...

Yes it is an extract kit. Colour was a dark brown, was supposed to be black however...I'm upping the temps and will leave it another week before I bottle. I'm still seeing a tiny bit of activity through the airlock, so here's hoping!

I forget the specific strand of yeast, but I've kept it around 67f which was the ideal range it specified. If it means anything the fermentation began very quickly (within 12 hours) and the high krausen was pretty vigorous. Fermentation went on for well over a week. So I am a bit perplexed. I...

Hey everyone! So I have a pumpkin porter in the primary right now, it has been in there for two weeks. I took a hydro reading today as I haven't seen much activity in a few days. My OG was a bit low from the start, was supposed to be 1.057, I was at about 1.053. Today my hydro reading was at...

Will substituting 10lbs of Pilsen LME for the 8lbs of light DME work?

Been there! Only tiny-assed kitchen funnels. They had lots of good automotive funnels with built in filters though. No idea what sort of plastics they were made of however...

I checked our local restaurant supplier. NOTHING. This is ridiculous. I think I'll just use a 2L PET bottle cut in half until I order another box of supplies online.

Unfortunately I am brewing this week. And I find it so exhausting to order 4 dollar items off the net when I know shipping will be 4x as expensive as the item. I live in Canada eh?

Hey everyone! Question here.... I need to buy a big funnel for transferring my wort to the fermenter. Unfortunately I cannot find a large enough funnel ANYWHERE. I was thinking of using an automotive funnel, but am unsure if these are food safe or not? None of the ones I saw stated what type...

Thanks everyone for the great answers! I will try out some of these techniques! I have a couple of glass carboys, and also a plastic fermenter with a spigot. I'm guessing it's probably easiest to just ferment right in the container with the spigot and bottle right from there, or should I go...

Hey everyone! First post here on the forums. I've made one batch from a mr. beer kit before, and was unimpressed, so I've decided to take it up a notch and will be trying out an extract brew this weekend. I'll be making a pumpkin porter (that time of year...) from Brewer's Best. Now I just...