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OK, I brewed a Fat Tire clone (recipe from Brew Your Own), all grain, 5 gallons, using this yeast. I brewed it about 2 1/2 weeks ago and the gravity I just measured is at 1.020. I adjusted the recipe with BeerSmith because my efficiency hasn't been very good (this is only my 3rd all grain...

I second the view on the Avenue Pub. Lots of great choices (though not necessarily brewed in LA), the food is awesome, and the bartenders are knowledgeable about beer. Don't miss it!

A partial mash is not that complicated, or if he has grains for seeping that's even easier. Going all grain may be a bit complicated if you don't have the right equipment. Read, read, read. This forum is very helpful.

Not from what I hear. Things are fairly calm tonight; I sure hope it stays that way!

My brother and his friend brew in Caracas. Send me a private message and I can get you in touch with him. Apparently there are some suppliers there.

Really?! Cool, that would save me an hour of driving to get the yeast! Nice. So the yeasties aren't affected by the temp that much? Are they stressed out? Should I bump this up to 2 L, or does that look like enough? I was planning on cold crashing it and dumping the wort and just using the...

OK, here's proof that the StarSan did not kill my yeast. This is a 1 L starter and there appears to be a huge amount of yeast that has settled at the bottom. My plan was to take this up to a 2 L starter, but unfortunately it fermented at about 72 deg. So I'll probably just dump the poor guys...

That's a good thing to know. I guess I'll remember that for next time. Maybe what I should have done is used two packs of dry yeast, rehydrated them and be done. At this point, the starter is doing very well, so the yeast is obviously not dead, so I'll just crash it, decant it and use it as is.

Reason for the starter is that it was a lager. I am under the impression that lagers require a lot of yeast to get started. To measure the pH, I simply poured off a little bit out to a separate container so I don't think that I could have infected it. Thanks. I guess I'll just see if it...

Thanks for the advise. I think that I will skip the decoction. Please see my post on the yeast in the yeast/fermentation forum. I think that I may have killed it and may have to start over with the yeast starter. Not a good way to start! Oh well, live and learn!

I was making an 1 L starter and had about 100ml of StarSan in the container, and I forgot to dump it before I added the wort with the yeast in it. I'm thinking that I killed the yeast. It was a pack of dry safelager yeast mixed in with 1L of water with 100 g of DML. I measured the pH after I...

OK, even though I was trying to keep things simple, the decoction deal doesn't sound too bad. If I am doing a partial mash (5 gal, ~6 lbs. total grains plus ~3.5 lbs extract late addition), would the decoction still provide any benefits? Also, I plan on fermenting this with Bohemian Lager from...

Oh, I have another question. Would a 90 min boil be requred?

I happen to be in the exact same situation. I am planning on brewing my first lager and want to brew a Viena and also keep it simple. This recipe looks like it would be perfect with the suggestions. What would the fermentation schedule look like and what would be the mash schedule for this...

Try the following: OK Bicycle Shop, they have a decent beer selection. The Deck also has a decent beer selection. Callahan's beer selection is not as good, but it's a Mobile institution that should not be missed. Agree with the Oyster House on the gumbo, apart from home made it's one of the best.

I didn't create it. I just got it off a website. So yes that's the only resolution I have. Good enough for just playing around.

I used this label:

I definitely believe that the biggest change is the availability of ingredients. I love this forum and I have gotten a ton of useful advice from it, but without the ingredients, it wouldn't do much good. The first time I brewed was back in the late 80's in college and to be honest, it wasn't...

Thanks for the tip. I did get the tablets and basically used only one tab per bottle and now the carbonation is perfect. Well, at least good enough for me. The batch was salvaged! Thank goodness for Grolsh bottles. It would have been a pain without them.

Thanks, that's the kind of advice I was looking for. One "been there done that" and one really good idea. I'm pretty sure that my LHBS has the tablets. That's gotta be the quickest way to fix it. This place is great!