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Sorry to hear that. I also dumped one because of the off flavor.

This is good to hear. It's nice to know that all of our troubles with that lot# are not self inflicted.:mug:

I am convinced that it is a bad lot#. Not anything that everyone is doing wrong. The yeast sinks to the bottom when it doesn't proof and it has a bad odor to it. If the few cells of viable yeast finally do get to a number that they can finish the beer it will leave an off flavor. The long lag...

Today I had 2 packets of notty that didn't proof. It had a strange smell to it. A odd chemical smell. Northern is helping me with the problem. I proofed and pitched a windsor. They were shipped and stored together.

I'm sure there are a couple of hitch hikers in commercial hops as well. They are packaging a lot more a lot faster then us who grow our own hops. So, I would think there would be bugs in bought hops as well. I wet hop so I may have had some help in the kettle. But the boil cleaned them. I...

Just re-pitch. Don't aerate after adding yeast.

I also had trouble with Notty. After rehydrating and pitching I didn't see any activity after 12 hours. So I pitched another packet in case I did something wrong. It had been 48 hours since pitching the first packet and there is absolutely no activity. No gravity change. I had Windsor so I...

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where in Pa? I'm from williamsport.:tank:

nice pics. beer, fishing , great combo. i would love to be as good at fishing as you appear to be. fortunately i'm good at brewing so i can catch a nice buzz. :ban:

morebeer.com northernbrewers.com and williamsbrewing.com are where i have ordered from. there products and service have been fine. morebeer if your oder is over $59 the shipping is free. northern was shipping for $5.99 check'em out.

hello fellow brewers from Pennsylvania. i'm new to the forum , and i'm looking forward to discussing our passion.