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    Harvesting Wyeast 1968 London ESB

    https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/yeast-washing-highly-flocculant-strains-152080/index2.html#post1988105 Yes you can successfully wash Wyeast 1968: in the first washing the white yeast layer dropped out faster to the bottom than the very dark trub layer and darker beer layer so poured off the...
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    Yeast Washing for Highly Flocculant Strains

    Wyeast 1968: in the first washing the white yeast layer dropped out faster to the bottom than the very dark trub layer and darker beer layer so poured off the top dark trub portion. Then for the second wash added more distilled water and re-mixed the chunky cottage cheese like white yeast...
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    FlyGuy's T-siphon: a $3 replacement for an autosiphon

    Cannot upload a picture so to help visualize here is a movie clip/picture link of the concept only showing how the "T-siphon" works but using the Buon Vino Super Automatic Bottle Filler: http://www.buonvino.com/P_BotFill.shtml -For filling my wine bottles as per the device instructions to...
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    Cherry Cola?

    To keep it simple we add a shot of sour cherry syrup from an ethnic store or make up a 1 cup concentrated less sweet Cherry Koolaid syrup and add to taste to a regular coke. Almond extract is found in a number of award winning cherry pie recipes. Try a few drops of almond extract in a...
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    Is my auto siphon broken.

    The dime trick to replace the black button valve worked great. Turns out one of the two notched arms on the black button bent in on me so it would go in but not stay in under pressure. One Pump Start Auto siphon How To: 1) Begin with the auto siphon in the closed/collapsed position. 2)...
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    Pale Ale Yeast Experiment on Brewing Radio

    February 11, 2010 - Pale Ale Yeast Experiment Home brewer Scott Mathis shares his experiment splitting a pale ale wort and fermenting it with six different yeasts. All brewed at 64F, 6lbs dry malt extract, 1lb Crystal 60, Warrior hops & Chinook hops, ibu=27.5, OG=1.062...
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    Bottle Bucket

    Bottling bucket "how to" video from BYO magazine. http://www.byo.com/videos/24-videos/1795-bottling-your-beer or in google type site:byo.com "bottling your beer" Summary: attach a two inch long hose to the bottling bucket spigot, then attach the bottling wand to the two inch hose. This...
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    Belgian Beers...Dry vs Liquid

    Curious if your Wyeast Belgian Wit is #3944? And your Blonde recipe details? Am interested in the flavors provided by the wit yeast in different ales.
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    How to get a good start to my autosiphon?

    To fully re-saturate the hose with liquid: while it is still sighoning, grab the flexible hose part 6" from the end of the hard plastic top part, then gently raise the flexible hose 1" higher than the hard plastic part, then quickly let go of the flexible hose, quickly repeat a few times. The...
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    Yeast Washing Illustrated

    Used a plastic turkey baster to siphon off the top liquid which worked well although slow for wash #2 as someone had suggested. Filled up clear beer bottles to the very top and capped for long term storage. FYI, the four week old Wyeast 3944 Hoegaarden strain washed yeast started faster than...
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    How to Improve a coopers stout kit?

    Made the Coopers Australian Stout white can a few times brewed at 18C with 21 day primary only with kit yeast. Generates huge foam levels so we start with less volume(18L) to leave room in the fermentor until day 5 then top up to 23L with water. 1) 500g dark dry malt+300g white sugar is good...
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    Yeast Washing Illustrated

    Like you am interested in harvesting wheat hefe yeast. After listening to this MP3 around the one hour mark they summarize and the two fella's each use different, almost contradictory processes: one washed yeast for only a one time future use, mixed up all the trub, uses hefe yeast within a...
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