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malt & fermentables % LB OZ MALT OR FERMENTABLE PPG °L 76% 11 0 Weyermann Pilsner 37 2 ~ 10% 1 8 Flaked Wheat 34 2 ~ 9% 1 4 Belgian Candy Sugar Light 36 0 ~ 3% 0 6 Belgian CaraVienne 34 22 ~ 3% 0 6 Belgian Biscuit Malt 35 24 ~ 14 8 Batch size: 5.5 gallons Original Gravity 1.072...

After 8 days in primary, I racked my belgian tripel (first all grain batch) to secondary. I noticed a definite skunky beer smell. I also sampled some that I used to do a gravity reading and had a definite heineken taste to it. Certainly didn't have the fruity notes I was hoping for and...

Thanks guys, yes I have read the sticky on yeast washing. I will probably do both. The starter I made with the drops out of the original container looks good, so I will probably build that up a few times and store until bottling the current batch. I will wash yeast too and use in future...

So, I am brewing a belgian tripel and pitched two wyeast 1214 smackpacks. I plan on a semi-long secondary and crash-cooling so I want to have some yeast to re-pitch when bottling. I am considering two ways to keep some yeast for this and for future batches and want to know which way is better...

Same here. I pour the used water into my rain-barrel, part of which waters my hops.