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Awesome! Thank you for posting that. I will pick that book up next week. I called a different LHBS and they have a copy in stock :-) It hasn't been 24 hours and I see little yeasties clumping up spinning around. Thanks, FishH2o

What yeast book is it? I've been wanting to buy YEAST, THE PRACTICAL GUIDE TO FERMENTATION. I just have not found it in town yet so I need to order it. Once you get a chance yes please quote it if you don't mind. If I messed this one up then once I know how to do it the correctly I will make a...

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Yeah I know the air was not necessary and the stir plate does the same thing. However, I just received everything in the mail yesterday and I knew it would not hurt anything so it was a good time to test everything and get acclimated with the new gear. Thanks again for yall comments and looking...

Between me and my girl we drink about 2 cases a week and maybe a few more on the weekends. Most of what we drink is home brew and craft beers with in the 6.5 - 9% range. That does not include the wine with dinner. I only drink beer and wine I had to lay off the hard stuff when i got out of...

I would split the batch too. However, i would compare different yeast strains to and start a yeast collection of the ones i really like. either way your in a good spot with having 10 gallons. I would only have to brew every other weekend.

Sweet!! I just put the WLP001 in a starter. So I will let yall know which one I like in about 8 weeks. :mug:

It took about 10 minutes to get the wort temp down to 79 degrees. Aerating the starter wort. Adding the WLP001. Vortex from the stir plate. Its been fermenting for about 6 hours now. I will update yall when its finished. This was a very easy process. I had time to kick back 3...

I mixed the DME in a bowl before the boil. This made it easy to deal with the DME lumping up. The starting gravity was 1.030. Jamil recommends a starting gravity of 1.040 - 1.030 for starters. Apparently you don't want to make it too strong it could stress the yeast. Added the yeast...

Hey yall i thought I would share some pic of my first starter. It was a fun process and I will be making starters for all my batches going forward! Thanks to everyone on this board for the wealth of information about starters. Since I have found this site I have learned so damn much! :mug: My...

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Vortex from the stir plate

Adding the WLP001

Aerating the started wort

cooled to 79 degrees

Cooling in ice bath

Finished 211 degrees

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Sanitizing the air stone