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I am doing a 10 gallon batch of wee heavy tomorrow - in the 1.085 range. I bought yeast monday, pitched to 1/2 gallon starter tuesday, chilled & decanted, then added 3/4 gallon starter for a step up and should now be left with 6-700 billion cells...anyone care to backcheck my cell count...

I hooked up a fan that had only red and black wires and it ran fine. The fan is a 12vDC and power supply is only a 6 volt cell phone charger. I am just going to use the fan with 2 wires and throw the 4 wire one back in the scrap parts bin. Thanks for the replies.

I am trying to build a stir plate with a case fan, but my fan has 4 wires. It is a Dell and has Black, Red, White, and Blue wires. I tried connecting the black and red to my power supply and nothing happened. Any thoughts? Anyone ever use a similar case fan for a stir plate? Thanks!

Like dry??? just dump in the dry packet? or mick it with some warm water and get it into solution first?

It has been 9 days in primary. If I decide to make a starter it would be with a fresh smack pack and some DME. When I said the same yeast I mean another package of Brittish Ale II...not "the same" yeast off of the bottom of the fermenter ;). I rousted the fermenter and got everything...

Need some Advice please!!! :confused: I don't have the recipe in front of me but here a few details - OG = 1.052 Wyeast - Brittish Ale yeast II (pitched straight from the fully inflated sack) After 12 hours it took off fermenting hard and by the 24 hour mark the temp on the fermometer...

that is the question. Grain sacks after steeping, hop sacks after boiling. Thoughts?

Is it bad to remove your airlock during secondary fermentation for a couple minutes? I am doing my second batch while that one is still fermenting and was going to swap airlocks...but then changed my mind, but I had already removed it from the secondary fermenting batch. Full circle, back...