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Not that this is a "do what I say, not what I do" thing, but I made this RIS before and used 2 packets of S-04. It started at 1.103 and worked itself to 1.023 in little time. We did not shake it at all, ever. My co-brewer (it's mainly his beer) did not want to shake a 6 gallon glass carboy and...

Krausen is decreasing.

I think I'll brew on Monday. All grain!

Or just don't decant.... .25 Gallons in a 5 Gallon batch is probably not going to be noticeable. If I choose to hold true to the brew day. That's about 5% of the batch. Interesting experiment. http://brulosophy.com/2016/10/10/decanted-vs-full-yeast-starter-exbeeriment-results/

Yep...I'm using 1098....

Is there a certain minimal time for cold crashing in order to do a successful decant? For example, is it worth doing if I could only cold crash for 14 hours? I'd suspect the answer is "probably" and "yes" in my case, being that this starter is probably overkill for 5 gallons of 1.059. Loosing a...

Sounds good. So the foam on the top should go away...that should be one clue. Moving clumps of yeast is another clue (may not be true for all yeast?). I don't think it's possible to see flocculation while the stir plate is on. I'd imagine I'd see that right now if I were to turn it off. I'll...

Thanks for the info. Do you have pictures of what it should look like? I'm hoping in 7 more hours it will be done. If worst comes to worst I can just leave it on the stir plate for another night and not decant. Brew day is definitely happening tomorrow regardless!

Yea. I was about to dump it yesterday, but members in my beer club told me I'm fine and to stop worrying about it. and dumping it would be stupid since our water is pretty decent. The funny thing is that I bought a 6-pack of spring water bottles JUST for this. I even had it sitting on the...

Here's my current 1L Starter after 24 hours. I'd like to get this in the fridge soon for tomorrow's 3PM pitching. My original schedule had me keeping it on the stirrer until 10PM tonight (another 7 hours). I can easily and clearly see that there are lots of yeasties in suspension. :)

Looks like she fits just fine. There won’t be 4-5L in it though. decanted 1L (I don’t know what would this be about 300ML?) + 2L, so about 2.5L or so maximum that needs to be stirred. Here's a review showing a guy stiring 4000ML of liquid with the small StirStarter. I should be good to go...

Looks like that's what it means. Just to stick with Brewer's friend for now, the resulting pitch of doing a 1L, 1.4L, 2-step starter would result in .73M cells per degree plato for 6 Gallons of 1.100 OG. This may be a good time to break out the DME for this one as using Propper Starter could...

Thanks for this. I started playing around iwth some step calculators. Every one is a bit different. I'm calculating needing a 1.0 Pitch Rate being that this is high gravity. I'm also assuming 92 Billion initial cell count. Fresh, but not right off the press fresh. I basically went to a few...

So two step is all I need? I’m still very sure that 1G jug will work. But I’d still like the challenge of using one pack. Give me a step by step with either the 2L flask and or the 4L jug to super charge this heavy wort...

Welp, I've already picked up another recipe. For this one, it's time to dive into the deep end. Let me first try using some fuzzy math. Let me know what your guys's calculator says. I want to use 1 pack of liquid yeast. It's pretty fresh..assume 96% viability. The OG is going to be 1.100. Yes...

that was fast! I used tap water instead of bottled water by accident though. Not going to worry about it.

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S-04 and US-05 are similar because they are both clean yeast, and they both attenuate well. Yes, the S-04 adds some bread character, but also like US-05, dries it too much. My two stout/porter dark beer beer snobs do not like S-04 in their stouts at all, and they love "teh bread". S-04 isn't...

Just curious what everyone's thoughts are that use both. I brew almost entirely with dry yeast due to simplicity. I don't rehydrate because I haven't noticed any difference either way after doing it several times. I pitch healthy amounts however. With US-05 and S-04 I will pitch 1.5-2 packets of...

I don't even have the flask yet, but NO flask that I'm aware of is "truely" flat. It probably has to due with the manufacturying/strength qualities. Take a look at this Pyrex flask that I'm getting, which is better than any found at any HBS. You can tell that it isn't "truely" flat. It has...