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I just made my first starter. I have no stir plate, but am giving it a good swirl every time I walk by. It's definitely taking off after a little under a day. When I swirl it, I get a lot of foam, like a beer with way too much carbonation. Is this typical?

I brewed a ginger blonde 3 months ago, and have very different results. I used Northern Brewer's Lefse Blonde kit as the base. I used 12 ounces of ginger, some tangerine, and pink peppercorns, and I can taste all of it. The ginger was fresh - it was peeled and then run through a slap chop. I...

Thanks, this is exactly the piece that I was missing/hadn't sunk in yet. The Black IPA yeast will be dumped, and I'll plan my next couple of brews to try to reuse the yeast, because it's something I'd like to know how to do.

Thanks, that helps. I have a yeast in a Black IPA I plan on bottling this week, and will be re-using that for another IPA. How do the IBUs affect the yeast? It sounds like I shouldn't take this back to something less hoppy, like a red ale.

I seem to remember reading (although I can't find it now) that when reusing yeast, it should only be used for beer with the same or higher OG. Any truth to this?

I'm assumig this is for a standard 5 gallon batch? I may try to scale this back to 3 gallons and give it a try.

I'm thinking I may try this myself, as my first brew without a boxed recipe kit. I have some Wyeast 1272 American Ale yeast I want to reuse from a Black IPA. Thoughts on using that yeast for this?

Thanks for the responses. I'm passing on this for now. I'll just pick up a carboy for a secondary.

I recently came across an old 5 gallon stoneware jug, and I was wondering if this could be useful as a secondary fermenter. It seems reasonably clean, as it was stored in a sealed trash bag. I can't see the inside though so I'm guessing that this would be a pain to properly clean and use for...

Great sticky. I just brew my first batch 2 nights ago and was a bit worried that I see nothing going on in the airlock. I'll just take a reading tomorrow and hope for the best. Really galkd I found this forum, I'll be doing a LOT of reading over the next few days.