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My math and with some assumptions, which could be totally wrong, is that 4 gallons of beer, bottled at 60 degrees with 5 oz of corn sugar will give the OP carbonation at about 3.6 to 4 volumes. It is considered "highly carbonated" with a range of 3.3 - 4.5. Highly carbonated beer, like certain...

Welcome to HBT. Well, you gave them 20% more sugar than they were supposed to have, so yes it is a possibility. Also, there is no real need to transfer to secondary for an ordinary pale ale. Lastly, you could have kept the transfer going- and let the trub go to the bottom of your secondary...

Well, it is no longer an irish stout. You basically made a dark, roasty hefeweizen. It honestly sounds kinda gross to me. Anyways, good luck!

It was not asked but since this is the yeast forum: Liquid yeast, both WL and WY, should be opened carefully and pitched to a starter. They don't have enough cells to begin with, presuming 5 gal of normal OG. check out mrmalty.com for yeast pitch rate calculators cheers!

You severely underpitched the number of yeast cells needed to fully ferment your beer, so I'd say those yeast are done. It can be hard to get it down the last few points- It might be necessary to pitch the beer onto another yeast cake. Brew another beer, hopefully with dry yeast (or if you...

Not to be a total smart ass but I don't get buying empty glasses and pay for expensive shipping too. They sell flip tops with beer inside at my corner liquor store- Grolsch (green) and Fischer (amber).

The current issue of Zymurgy noted a county government study re tourism (pg5). The craft beverage industry in the county where Russian River Brewing Co is located (Sonoma) contributed $123 million to the local economy in 2012; and this year's PtYounger release contributed $2.35 million to...

It will be a fine beer as is with a bit of extra malt to bump the ABV. A rather small increase (such as 0.5% in ABV) isn't going to make a big difference, don't get me wrong. You could have that much variance depending on your AG efficiency, so I like to check my pre-boil OG and add or...

I would suggest picking a different recipe, a pale ale that has more ABV. If you add more malt, then you need to add more hops, to retain balance, and you might as well pick a beer that was designed to be 5+% ABV instead of messing with this one. There are hundreds of other American/pale ale...

Agree with this. It like throwing good money after bad. I have tried adding fruit and sour bugs to crummy beer- and all it ever did was waste my time and money by becoming passably tolerable only after drinking a few other beers earlier. You can try the maltodextrine idea floated earlier...

Without more info: It may just be green. I would put it aside, at room temp, for a few weeks and check back.

When you rehydrated yeast #3, did it get foamy, creamy or look dead ? Viability checks, like making a starter for liquid and rehydrating dry, are a good thing.

New brewers, IMO, should stick to dry yeast. There is no good reason to spend twice as much money for WY 1056 as compared to dry US 05 yeast, and with dry you get twice as much yeast, and thus don't underpitch (because one smack pack or vial is generally underpitching- it will still ferment but...

sorry to hear about your problems. First, bleach bomb all your gear. Something has a hold of it that regular sanitizers aren't clearing. Second, Sanitizing is not the same as sterile so bad things may inevitably get through. Third, clean your gear with PBW not kitchen dish soap. It is...

In the updated paper book, Palmer admits that in his first edition (ie the online freebie version) he gave bad advice to add sugar to proof the yeast.

You aren't following the recipe schedule and anyways-- It depends a lot on the boil gravity and of course the AA% of the hops. The 5 min addition will give some bitterness but you should probably move an ounce or so to the 60 min addition.

Cool, we can meet at RRBC :) I will be there for The Younger release in February but may roll up sooner. thanks!

Yes I'd pitch one dry packet of US05 (rehydrated). It is the same as WL 001/ WY 1056 but half the price. You get a lot more yeast in dry packets. And don't need to make a starter. Anyways, presuming you already made the purchase, make a starter to increase liquid yeast cells. Or buy two. Or...

I have stepped it up twice with light extra runnings. I still don't think it is enough yeast. I am going on vacay and will do it a THIRD time when I get home. $9 plus shipping? aint worth it imo. wish I had cultured from some actual HT! I can't get any unless a kind HBTer wants a trade...

My yeast geek vial came with hardly any yeast! They claim to send a 250 ml vial, which they did but most of it was water. I am pretty pissed at them. I complained but heard nothing back. here is a pic after 3 days cold crashing in my fridge. fuzzy pic but the ruler is millimeters and the...