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So I went ahead and harvested (top crop) the krausen after it slows down activity. Such a huge krausen! So now I have one more 500ml jar with a nice thick yeast layer of around 100 ml with some trub and water. For my next hefe, the online calculators tell me I will need 192 billion cells...

I Want It All - Queen

just started to brew a few months ago. Let me update! +5g centenncial blonde +5g Two Hearted Ale +5g centenncial blonde (people drink fast this one) +5g Zombie dust clone +5g Da Yooper's House Pale Ale +5g Two Hearted Ale (favorite now) +5g Bavarian Hefeweizen = 10845.5

Then been sitting in the fridge for 3 days only. They will stay there for quite some time, hope they settle so I can decant the started beer

Thanks! I will do that next time. This beer had a big krausen and it filled the blow off tube.

Just quoting that those jars have a convex bottom, and not much yeast on the middle of the pot if I look from under it

Hi. I jut used this yeast for the first time and I have some questions about the correct way to handle the yeast collection. Can't remember where I read it, but was said that this yeast is very non flocculant, and if I collect it from the yeast cake after fermented I could end up collecting...

I'm making a manual fly sparge, adding hot water as needed to keep around 1 inch of water on top of the grain. The sparge process don't take more than 10-15 minutes

How long you taking to sparge? Guess I'm rushing mine too

Just kicked another keg of this recipe. It was dry hopped with 2oz of cascade in the keg. It really make it shine. People loved. I found out that it gets better if I don't use gelatin to clear. Looks like get more flavor.

Just finished building my stir plate. Will use liquid yeast for the first time. Spent less than 10 bucks.

My first batch was already all grain with keg. Never experienced the hassle of bottling.

I pitched hidrateded dry yeast. So after 6 days do u remove from the chamber but still keep it on the primary?

Hi, I have a chest freezer hooked up with a temperature controller. It holds 2 5gal buckets. I will start brewing every weekend now, Ales only, so I only will be able to have 2 brews in the temperature control at a given time on the primary fermentation. Question: how long do I need to...

Did you just switched to Citra and kept all the quantities and boil schedule?

Hi, newbie here. Brew the original recipe yesterday. That was my first brew ever, many lessons learned. I ended up with only 4.5 gal and the OG was 1.051. Lost 2 gallons on the boil, guess I will need to low down that burner! Lets see how it will turn out. Cheers!