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Whats the best\most sanitary way to get hydro samples from your glass carboy?

After 2 days of active fermentation I came home this afternoon and the krausen seems to have fallen. Is that normal? The airlock is still pretty active.

I made my starter with 1/2 cup of DME and 1litre of water. Covered with foil and gently swirled for 3 days. Put in fridge, took it out on brew day decanted most of the wort, pitched into my carboy and had very active fermentation in under 12 hours...

I also forgot to aerate..... I dumped my starter into the carboy then poured the wort in on top at a high flow rate to splash and hopefully introduce enough oxygen.

First off I would like to thank Homebrewtalk and all of its awesome members!!! :mug: Note to self: Don't do your first brew session and invite all your friends.... 3 people picking guitars and 10 others roaming about makes for a hectic brewday. Add in grilling dinner for everyone and...

If your hops schedule is: 1.00 oz Target [11.00%] (60 min) 0.50 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.00%] (15 min) You put the target in when theres 60 minutes left or after 60 minutes have passed? The goldings would be when there is 15 min left correct?

Great! As always thanks for the info!

Ok, so I made my first starter. Wyeast 1099 whitbread smackpack 1 liter water 1/2 cup dme Sanitized everything and put it in a growler covered it with foil. Swirled the growler by hand. Upon waking the next morning the yeast look to have fallen out of suspension like it should look after cold...

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If I make a starter, I have no stirplate can I put an aquarium pump line in and just areate in place of a stir plate? Keeping it sanitary of course with foil over the top. The bubbling taking place of the stir plate?

Great info! Thanks!

Whats the procedure when making a starter if you have no stirplate? What exactly does the stir plate provide?

Also if you plan to just primary can you add gelatin to the primary or do you have to secondary to add gelatin?

Can you put a 5 gallon batch in a 6 gallon carboy? Any problems doing this?

Should you still make a starter if you don't have a stirplate?

Thanks, I will stop in and see if they have anything else.

Here is a 2010 copy of my water report. they don't have a 2011 one yet for some reason.... Anyway is this suitable and what would you add to make it better?

How long before your brew day should you make your starter?

Thanks!