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Very good. I found it much easier to stir in the square cooler than the tall round one, so perhaps the mash was a more homogenious mixture. Also Im pretty careful about temp, and I can tell you that because of the much smaller headspace in the smaller cooler, the temp droped maybe one degree...

About ten batches into my all grain brewing experience. Up till now I've done a couple pales, a couple Hefes, a wit, doesn't matter. Anyway, I use the Gott 10 gallon cooler and false bottom for mash and lauter in the same vessel. Did a double batch sparge pretty hot thinking it would help...

I fly a Falcon 2000 for a private flight department. I pretty much get tired of explaining that, so I tell people I have my own business restoring vintage motorcycles (which I do!). :tank:

Ive been using WLP001 at about 68F and its always left a yeasty twang that seems to take a while to go away. I'm pretty sure its not my technique becasue I just did a 90 Shilling clone with WLP028 and it was clean as could be.

I used this yeast a couple weeks ago for the first time on a blueberry wit. (I know, not even close to the right kind of yeast for this but its all I had sitting around at the time and I wanted to get the fermentation going before leaving town.) Fermented at about 62, and after 5 or 6 days I...

I had not thought of using a Kolsh yeast, and yes I brew mostly German beers anyway, so now I might have to try it...

Oh yea and what temp are you guys fermenting? I was thinking about 64-66....

Ok, sounds great! The plan is to brew a regular old PA at around 1.056 first with 1 pack of US-05, then harvest some or all of the cake and pitch the active and freshly multiplying cells to the IIPA. That way I only have to buy 1 pack and I know it's not going to be underpitched.

Well I'm contemplating trying the dry stuff. Ive always used WLP001 and had fairly good results with it, as in with the fermentation, but it's always left a very very slight yeasty twang that I find takes forever to age out of the beer. I'm interested in trying US-05 in my next Pale Ale and my...

Well I was brewing my belgian blueberry Wit for the woman today, and everything was going swimmingly. Too good. After a perfect mash session, good boil, and all, I cranked up the immersion chiller and the da*)%^(*^% thing blew a line inside my wort. By the time I caught it, it had leaked at...

Im glad Im not the only one, I thought for a minute I was going crazy. It was in a green bottle, but definatley for a different market than the us, as it was a 500mL bottle and all the markings were different. Ant it was delicious. Made me mad about what we get at home. Next I'll have one...

They say the yeast in the bottle is a different yeast than was used during fermentation, but I have nothing to back that up. I myself am a fan of White Labs 300, which I have used over and over, even harvested some after the fact from my own bottles. Now that, I can tell you will work fine...

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:off: OK I admit this has nothing to do with homebrew, but I thought I'd come to the experts with this. I had a work trip down to Nassau this week and today, I had a Heiny with lunch. Now, normally I think that stuff tastes like skunk piss, but it was that or Bud Light. Today's beer, this...

Funny the replies about Shiner Bock. I actually don't mind it as a decent cheap beer, but if I drink, like, ONE, it gives me a huge headache AND roaring heartburn simultaneously. And I once threw up after one gulp of Honey Brown. It was before I became enlightened but nonetheless, it is ten...

I'm thinking about doing this next. I like the original recipe, but I had been thinking I'm going to follow it except... So as to not shock my yeast, I'm planning on starting with just the wort from the mash. At first sign of fermentation, Ill throw in 1/4 lb of corn sugar, and then...

Ok, second thoughts, I'm thinking white wheat since I'm doing a protein rest, I'll still get plenty of fermentable conversion. Second, 4# blueberries ought to do it without overpowering everything. Yes?

Yes. But it is close....

The girl wants a blueberry beer of some kind so I think a Belgian Wit would be a good place to start. Just threw this plan together, wont have a chance to brew it for a few weeks. I want something very light in color, pretty dry, and nice and cloudy. 5.25# Belgian Pils 5# Belgian...

I just pitched my first reused yeast the other day. It was WLP300 Hefe and I rescued it from the bottom of a bottle, got a starter going, and then had to go out of town for three weeks. It looked fine when I returned, so got it going again with some fresh starter wort and pitched to my first...