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Vigorously aerate your wort for several minutes before pitching your yeast. I just use a whisk to whip in oxygen after its cooled till it gets a foamy head .The pour it into my fermenter . Then pitch your yeast starter like Jorb said above . Works great every time.

I had brewed several batches of beers with mixed results before I started messing with Meads and high gravity beers and began reading more into yeasts and I discovered something that's improved my fermentation's greatly. I was cooking my wort ,cooling it then just dumping it into my carboy ...

The carbs in the beer wil feed the good microbes in your compost.

I started brewing again after 4 years of inactivity . I started a beer Saturday and it fermented only for about 15 hours and stopped . My problem was I didn't aerate my wort before I pitched my yeast . My solution . I did buy 2 new tubes of White Labs Irish Ale yeast but I didn't need it.I...

I'm pretty fond of high gravity beers and stouts . I am using starters made of Wyeast Irish Ale Activator White labs Irish ale yeast and DME for an Imperial Stout . Is this the best strain to use or should I seek something suited for barleywine?

Ive heard of people making Carmel in a microwave . It might be worth an experiment.

I don't know why I never thought of wide mouth mason jars . I always kegged before because I thought bottling was a pain.

I have been out of the game for over 4 years . I got rid of most of my equipment except 2 6 gallon carboys. And a medium brew kettle. Yesterday I picked up a bag of one step ,some stoppers and some stuff to make a stout. Heres my ingredient list 7 gallons of charcoal filtered Anchorage...

I'm in Anchorage , I just brewed my first batch in four years yesterday. Miners Stout