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Replacing with honey will raise your gravity and add different flavors to your beer. If you don't want to change the flavors of your beer, you could simply not add it and have a lower more sessionable beer. Unless the OG is important for you for more alcohol.

I'm in line to think its the krausen as well. I have that layer on the small beer I am currently experimenting with. Maybe when you split the wort into two batches that particular bucket received more of the protein than the other or perhaps that bucket got more of the less floculent yeast than...

Now that you mentioned it I see where I was getting my thoughts crossed. I wanted to pitch at high krausen but it was a 3L starter and I didn't want to pitch that much wort so I chilled it. Well I guess I should have let it finish then decanted it. Regardless of this, those bad boys handled the...

I let it grow for about 26-28 hrs. All the growth should have occurred by that point and then the yeast start converting the sugars into alcohol. There should still be plenty of sugars since I'm chilling them after growth before they have a chance to finish the starter wort. At least this is my...

The other day I made a yeast starter and chilled it after its growth stage. I decanted what I could off (I might have left about 1/2 to 1 cup of starter wort) and left the yeast slurry out to warm up to pitching temperatures. While brewing my yeast woke up and started fermenting the remaining...

Keep in mind you can distribute to your friends or brew batches for them by having them buy your ingredients for you. Other than that, you can't legally sell or distribute to them or retailers without proper licenses to be a brewery. From what it sounds like to me is that your friend enjoys...

Put a fork in me, I'm finally done! Hey HBHoss, how are your accounts going? Have you opened any more accounts since your last post? It is encouraging to read about your success starting small; it gives all of us other HBers hope that it can be done without taking out massive amounts of debt to...