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Nope. I usually don't have my primary available long enough to fully clear sediment before kegging. Cold crashing in secondary before kegging is even better.

Thanks for the welcoming everyone! Glad to see there are plenty of homebrewers in this town...now we just need a decent LHBS.

In general, high gravity brews and clean profile beers (like lagers) ALWAYS require large starters. You're not just trying to get a short lag time, you're also trying to minimize off-flavors that result from yeast growth. For light to medium range beers (<1.060 OG), a starter is ideal and it's...

Personally, I would never do it, especially from an ice machine. It can definitely be a nice home for something like lactobacillus species to hang out. On the other hand though, I know an extract brewer who uses ice all the time and never has problems.

Hi everyone! Wanted to introduce myself to the forum. I live in State College and work at PSU, and I have been a homebrewer for the past five years. Got started right after college and brewed all through grad school, though when I first moved out here in PA my small apartment discouraged me...