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I made a yeast starter last night thinking I was going to brew today but now have to wait until the weekend. Can I start a new starter from my old yeast starty start start starter?

Going to be giving this a try soon but I think I'm gonna pass on the peanut butter powder and use PB extract. If anybody has brewed this please let me know how it turned out.

Thanks Yooper, that answers my question. I won't worry too much on it.

I wanted to start buying my base malts in bulk but don't want to purchase 4 different 50lb bags of different 2 row malts for different recipes. My question is, does it make a significant difference to the final beer? For example, if I use a rahr 2 row in a recipe that calls for a breiss or vice...

Hey Bill, I was just going through this forum looking for cider recipes when I noticed your picture- that is my dog! I had no idea that pic was loose on the interwebs but yeah, that is Curly, a 5 year old malty-poo who knows how to party. Do you remember where you came across this pic?

Well I brewed my batch and hit my target amount of 5.5 gallons and gravity dead on- I wish the story ended there.. I live in a n old log cabin I just bought 6 months ago and was brewing on the side deck that has aging planks that I am planning on replacing this summer. After 6 hours of brewing I...

Glad you mentioned that because I was FINALLY going to account for trub loss on this batch and I almost forgot. I guess I've always been worried that I am going to lose gravity with all that extra wort.

Thank you for the info!! I will go with the 1.25qt per grain pound and do the sparge in 2 additions (never knew you could do that). Hopefully I'll hit 5 gallons tomorrow!

Sorry for the rookie questions but I have done several all grain batches and I thought I would have figured this out by now but I still keep screwing it up.. I have used the mash and sparge calculator on brew365.com and it always seems like too much water to me. Tomorrow I am brewing a 5 gallon...

I am thinking about brewing this up by while looking for ingredients I could only find Melanoiden and not Melanoidin as spelled out in the recipe. Is this the same malt with a different spelling?

Thanks everybody for the advice. I will definitely let it sit for a few weeks and then take another gravity reading. I took one today and it was 1.024 from the OG 1.046 so it definitely did ferment a bit. BTW I am fermenting at 70 degrees

Hey everybody, I'm new to all grain brewing and my first batch was not a good start. First off I mistakenly put in 5.5 gallons for my sparge which I quickly found out was wayyy high. I dumped a gallon and boiled for an extra 30 min which got me to 5 gallons and 1.046 OG, not too far off from my...