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I have a few yeast related questions. I want to get into harvesting yeast from my 5 gallon batches and I have watched many videos on how to do so. Usually, they split up the slurry into 4 or 5 smaller mason jars and I was curious how to figure out how much slurry you would need for a starter for...

A Amber ale I needed a few months ago. Was slow to carb, but ended up nice.

That is a good point, I will let it ferment out so i can taste the differences in both of them. Thank you once again for your great help.

Thank you for the detailed response. This was my first lager and I have learned a lot from what you said. There is no activity in the airlock with the liquid yeast used, if it stays that way can I assume that the smack pack was too old? Or because of the low cell count, it won't cause the air...

Yes, I made a 5 gallon batch and split it up. I did not rehydrate the dry yeast. The instructions just said to pitch them and that batch is fermenting. The snack pack did not have a starter. I just popped the pack inside of it and let it sit at room temperature for 3 hours and it didn't swell...

When should you start to worry? I made a lager Sunday with a 1.034 og and used an American lager wyeast smack pack and haven't seen any activity. Should I repitch? I did a 5 gallon batch and split it up and used saflager 34/70 and that started fermenting he next day.

Brandon O's Graf

http://traffic.libsyn.com/basicbrewing/bbv02-28-14speedbrewing.mp4 Those two guys are great. You can learn a lot from them. They have an example of making a "smash" extract ipa and I don't see why you couldn't apply their recipe to a 5 gallon batch, unless you want a small batch. Imho this is...

I realized today that I never updated this thread. I drank all six beers not long after they were bottled. I took pictures of what the ale looked like but unfortunately my computer isn't working at the moment to grab them. The ale tasted a little watery I'm terms of its body, but i enjoyed it. I...

I wanted to purchase a cream ale kit but only wanted to make a 1 gallon batch because I can never seem to make a batch of beer my girlfriend likes. So I figured why not make a cream ale. I looked at some recipes and kits and quite a few only called for light dme. I had some light dme on hand and...

Can you pm me the recipe as well Tinpanharry, thanks.

Has anyone tried adding cinnamon to their batches?

@redzeker I did prime and I used 5 oz of corn sugar. I didn't see the notification, that's why I took forever to respond. I tasted a bottle after a week and it had a sweet taste to it which wasn't overpowering. Now it's turned to a more tart taste, has anyone else had a similar experience?

Just tasted my graff. After a week of bottle conditioning and 3 hours in the fridge, it tasted amazing. I'm very happy I brewed this.

Okay, I will do a mini mash for this batch with the 6-row malt like you suggested. Will 2lbs be enough? I am going to add it and not substitute any for the extract, why not add a little kick to it haha. What do you mean by adding the canned pumpkin to hot liquor water? Thanks.

I'm curious , what's the best way to use canned pumpkin when brewing an extract pumpkin ale ? I'm using the Pocahontas pumpkin pleaser recipe. I read that boiling will cause haze and possibly an infection.

Og:1.058 Fg:1.004 Alcohol:7.09% Nottingham Yeast .5 oz of Cascade hops 7.8% aa .5lbs crystal 60l 1oz Torrified wheat 4 gallons Motts Apple juice 1lb Muntons amber dme 1lb Muntons extra light dme 5oz priming sugar. I bottled my graff, which I brewed 8/8, last night and it tasted good. A little...

I really enjoy drinking soda, this book should be mine.

I have a bunch of bottles that need to be cleaned, my question is how long can I use a 5 gallon buckets worth of 5 star pbw if I soak the bottles in it to clean and get the labels off of the bottles.

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