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I brewed a German Alt about 5 days ago. Fermentation is slowing down and krausen is starting 2 drop. On my past brews i have used liquid wyyeast with a starter. This time i was lazy and just got dry yeast US-05 and it was a bit cheaper. I have also been hearing good things about this US-05 on...

If its a 5 gallon batch take about a cup of water and boil it with 5oz of priming sugar (corn sugar/Dextrose) if thats whats your using for priming. Then what i do is add it to the bottling bucket then rack the beer from primary straight to bottling bucket. Stir gently with siphon and bottle. I...

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I would of told the guy you know star san comes in a lower grade plastic then buckets right. And as someone already said its undiluted! What that guy said doesn't even make a lick of sense.

Its a pretty good IPA deff drinkable and don't have anything bad to say about it. Only had it once actually this year. Went to my moms for sunday dinner. And shes knows i love IPAs. And she had a 6 pack of Lat 48 in the fridge. If i'm going to buy beer i would rather drink Ranger. Seeing its...

No i wasn't going to use the whole bottle. I have a 4 gallon batch and was going to maybe put in like less then half into the last 1gallon of cider. Do you think thats 2 much? And how did your stout turn out any off flavors using this Brand?

I was at whole foods organic supermarket. And they had a bunch of diff flavors. I have a German Alt beer in primary and a hard cider. So I was like maybe ill try this in like the last gallon of my cider when bottling. Does this stuff have fermentable sugars in it I don't want bottle bombs. Has...

Like already said you let the boiling water cool down before you rehydrated the yeast correct? If not you prob killed the yeast and need to repitch. I usually cool mine down to 85-90 F before i put yeast in to rehydrate.

Thanks for the replies guys. Ya i usually wouldn't rack into secondary. But i need the Carboy for another batch i'm fixin 2 do. I'm trying 2 get somewhat of a never ending pipeline going. I have in the past not really worried about fermentation temps being a rookie. But after reading these...

Ok so i brewed a German Alt Extract kit from Northern Brewers 3days ago. I used Safale US-05 pitched at 68 F. I have kept the fermentation Temps at 62-65 F for 3 days now. Fermentation has been going great good Krausen and the beer is still fermenting good. My question is after the Krausen drops...

My first beer i ever brewed a coopers no boil extract kit when i opened a bottle for my brother he said this is good it taste like Natty ice i laughed and said i don't appreciate the compliment haha hes learning to like my most recent brews partial mash and extract kits he doesn't do backflips...

I'm no expert i do have about 5 batches under my belt that have been turning out good i still ask crazy questions on these forums so i'm no pro but i do beleave i know the answers to these questions seeing how i have asked them before wait another week before u take a sample especially after...

Alright thanks guys i'm a rookie so every little things worries me i didn't think it was mold or an infection i sanitized everything vigorously

I pitched dry yeast US05 about 16 hrs ago and I know some got stuck to the neck of the carboy it's what tan little specks so I left it alone but now it looks kind of whitish I sanitized everything really good should I leave this alone or wipe it out will the yeast specks turn into a bad mold intime

Update this mourning yeast has spread out and started to drop looks like fermentation has started so things look ok got temps to 60-62 i'v never fermented a beer with this low of temps but everyone says its the best way to go so will see usually ferment at like 70 F so excited to see how much...

Oh and i pitched this yeast about 4 and a half hrs ago

I brewed a German alt today pitched US05 dry not hydrated on top after aerating after pitching I swirled the carboy around a few times and it looks like some of the yeast is in a clump will it be ok I pitched at 70 F

Thanks guys for all the replies makes me feel better the beer looks and smells great i just never saw this before or heard of it so i was stumped i'm still a rookie but learning everyday thanks to all you fellow home brewers

This has never happened with any of my other brews i Brewed a German Alt extract kit today from Northern Brewer kit came in the mail today i was off so i brewed it right away My OG was supposed 2 be 1.052 i hit that pretty spot on my reading was 1.051 so i'm pretty sure it was perfect i used dry...

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