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Looks ok to me. I harvest yeast for future batches the same way, great to get a couple uses out of a single pack/vial.

Yeah, the lactose is going to give you a higher final gravity, but there's nothing wrong with raising the temp and bit and ensuring that the gravity is stable before moving forward. Good luck!

Yup, just echoing what others have said, it looks like a good bit of break material settling out. If you have room in a fridge, you can cold crash before bottling to help compact the trub down and hopefully end up with more/clearer beer.

Nice!

Ugh, that's frustrating. I was really hoping it was something simple like this, but it sounds like there are other factors at play. Sorry man, good luck isolating the problem. Sounds like you've got some great advice for things to try from others in the thread.

Well you know what they say about laws and sausages... and apparently beer fits that as well. Some of those amazing pellicles that result in delicious sour beer, or the grey, mushy fruit left at the bottom of the barrel... yeahhhh.

Nugget is always a great option for bittering. Equinox could be an interesting option for a single-hop session IPA, especially since it's just a small batch.

5) In general, yes - same types of grains, just smaller amounts. You could also consider mashing at a slightly higher temp or adding some body building malts (I like a small % of oats or flaked wheat) to keep the beer from getting too thin.

You've got a few options there. You could pull it off with a few minutes left in the boil, move it to another pot and add the honey then, or you could even add it a day or so after fermentation starts.

In terms of adding your priming sugar to the beer, do you dissolve it first before adding it? If not, that could potentially cause some differences in how much sugar ends up in each bottle. I generally dissolve the priming sugar (measured by weight, like you do) into 1-1.5 cups of distilled...

This basically covers everything I would have wanted to say. Well worth reading if you haven't yet. Good luck!

Since it's a honey witbier, you could even try using honey (instead of sugar or DME/LME as suggested above) to up the gravity.

Hey there Bransona, Im really sorry that your order has taken so long to get shipped out, and even more so that no one reached out to you. I plan on setting aside the entire day tomorrow in order to audit our processes in regards to situations like this. The goal would obviously be to not...

We really appreciate the kind words from you guys! And we were more than happy to make that happen @whip. It will be cool to see how the those two recipes turn out for you. Let us know how they go. If you haven't checked out the @brulosopher already then you owe it to yourself. With two of the...

Really great to hear that you guys had a good experience with us. We are still a young company so affirmation like this is music to our ears! If there is anything that you can think of that would make us even better please let me know. Thanks again and Happy Brewing! -Chris

Hey there Whip, I'm glad to hear that you got your package in good timing, but I am extremely sorry that you ran into those issues. We are a relatively new company, having only been open for 6 months, and because of that we still have to deal with occasional kinks like the one you had to...

Thanks for all the support guys! These kettles are friggin' awesome. Best of luck to everyone!

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