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It was a "brewer's best" kit and they supplied dried Nottingham yeast (for some reason). I didn't have anything else so I went with it.

I washed the yeast cake from my Belgian Tripel, which had a fast and furious fermentation and was in primary for 3 weeks. I followed Bernie Brewer's guide and repitched into my House Amber I brewed this weekend. After 24hrs of no activity at all, I tried making a starter with some of the left...

Yeti banner is gone...sorry! I can't seem to edit my first post anymore or I'd strike it out.

Both Flying Dog and Trippel Karmeleit are still available. $20ea and what ever actual shipping is to you from 02333...$10 or so? Let me know if you want an accurate shipping cost...sorry, feeling lazy right now : )

Hey Russ, Chimay sign is still available. IM me your email and zip code and I'll shoot you a PayPal invoice.

yup, If you want to snag it, send me a PM with your email and zip code, I'll send you a paypal invoice.

Sure do, everything in red in the first post is still available.

oh man, if I wasn't on the right coast...

That's so rad Noah....the new equipment, the pub, the story....everything! Speaking as someone with a relatively high-paying but dead-end job....you're my hero!

Interesting note to my first post. I just found the sheet of paper I wrote my OG on and it was a whopping 1.099!! Should have been 1.086 at the most. So the abv calculates to 10.4%....whoa. I'm fairly certain I measured the OG correctly....I remember reading it like 5 times, and it was...

Yeah, I think I'm going to skip the starter, but I am going to wash for the learning experience. I hope I pitch the right amount...Thanks again Solbes

I'm brewing on Saturday, and I like to have a revised plan so things go smoothly....so on Thurs I'm planning on doing this (based on Bernie Brewer's guide): 1. rack belgian to keg 2. boil some water to wash the yeast with 3. pour boiled+cooled water in, wait 20min for the heavy trub to...

OP here, question: I'm planning on brewing this weekend and I want to resuse the yeast from my Belgian which I'll be racking to a keg. Has this Nottingham yeast been too stressed sitting at the bottom of this beer for 3 weeks? I plan to wash the yeast so I can clean my carboy and repitch. I'm...

The vacuum T idea seems pretty cool. You could put one of those little filters on it too if you're worried about contaminating your wort. What kind of fitting is that, automotive?

I think next time, I'm going to try the tennis ball trick, and/or I'm going to build a cheapo aeration attachment for my drill like this guy did.

I'm curious how popular the different aeration methods are. I personally shake up my bucket or carboy, but I don't think I do it enough or something. The gravity of my batches have been ending high and I'm wondering if it's a lack of O2. What do you do?

Thanks Profchaos....was it the Brewer's Best kit? You use Notty too? Maybe it's not my rookie skills! Maybe Nottingham can't crunch through that much sugar before the alcohol levels get to them and they peeter out?

Thanks Calder, maybe there wasn't enough oxygen? I didn't aerate with 02, just shook it up a bunch. The first few days of the ferment went crazy, had to switch to a blow-off. Honestly, I'm going to go check my hydrometer for accuracy. Should be right at 1.000 at 60f, right? Interesting...

This is great information solbes...just what I was looking for. I used Nottingham yeast...came with the kit. Does that make a difference? I'm basically following your advice anyway. It's currently at 68 and it was 64 the past 3 weeks. I'll keep it like that for another week and see if the...

My Second 5ga batch, a Belgian Tripel (extract kit), has been in primary for 3 weeks. I'm at the high end of the expected FG, 1.020. It's still merky, but no activity in the airlock. I warmed-up the room a little more to 67 to see if I could boost the yeast activity to get the FG a...