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Hey folks, I have a 15 gallon Spike Kettle with side pick up tube and spike 3 PC ball valve. Also have a Blichman Hellfire. Both have about 15 brews on them or less, purchased a year and half ago. I still have original boxes and can ship at buyers expense. Ups. How about 350 for both.

Hey Folks- Looking hard at purchasing one of these. I use a chest freezer to control fermentation temps. I know a lot of these were sold during the 25% off sale a month of so ago. Are you owners picking up full vessels and placing them in your fermentation fridge? I read about the warning...

Water manipulations. LODO extremism.

So I like this beer, but not as much as I had hoped. This is the 4th time I've brewed almost the exact recipe (I increased the orange the last 2) and with 001 it is cleaner and the spices are more evident. The kveik version is more tart. Instead of sweet citrus I get almost an orange rind...

I finally brewed this with Denny's yeast and it's great. Definitely more malt flavor and full bodied. The rye plus this yeast give such a silky, creamy mouthfeel. I didn't find this yeast difficult to use or powdery. Three weeks in the primary and a week in the keg (even keg hopped) and it's...

I'm kegging mine today. I cold crashed it for a few extra days due to a sore back. I followed that Blue Moon recipe almost exactly, and I did add the coriander and orange per the recipe (even a little extra since I've brewed this before and always up the spice). I pitched around 90 and...

Checked sg last night......down to 1.010 from 1.048. It appears done. Never needed a blow off hose but still a very aggressive fermentation. I plan to crash and keg it over the next few days. Feels funny......I still have a vienna lager with full krausen fermenting away from a brew session...

I vacuum seal them in 4 oz increments. Once I open one I use what I need and keep it frozen in a zip lock, unless it's a variety I dont plan to use anytime soon. In that case I simply reseal whatever is left and toss in the hop freezer.

I love hopsdirect and have been purchasing hops from them for years. I too just ordered some crystal (plus Mt. Hood, Centennial, Tradition, and Columbus). 5 lbs for less than 10 bucks/lb shipped, not to mention their lbs are usually very generous.

I pitched at 90 and wrapped in sleeping bag. Had full krausen within 3 hours and already slowing by 24. Haven't checked sg yet but guessing it's about done. Hoping the fruit esters go well with the american white ale grain bill. I'll follow up once finished and packaged. Cheers

Good advice. Thanks! I wonder about the coriander. Brewing Friday so I have a couple days to stew on it. I'm looking forward to trying a new yeast.

Has anyone tried it? I've never used this yeast but purchased it to do a quick light beer while my fermentation fridge is occupied with a lager. The citrus esters I hear about would go nice with my blue moonish american white ale, right? I usually use 001 for this recipe. Thanks for any...

Double post, sorry about that.

Ok, I will quit bantering about this. We just keep talking past each other. Just a few last comments so the beginners you are trying to educate don't get confused........ 1- I was referencing your 25 billion comment. That's 25% of a "fresh" smack pack. Homebrewdad estimates 40 billion live...

A sign on the yeast fridge at my lhbs mentions a darker WL product due to process changes. I wonder if you received a pack from before and after such changes? I just picked up a pack of 833 and it was pretty dark, but also bought 838 and it was much lighter in color. Different yeast, so that...

Unless u got a bunk pack to begin with, or it was shipped poorly, you had more than that going into your starter. No way to accurately measure cell number by eye and a Mason jar, sorry. That looks like a bunch of good yeast to me ready for a second round of starter. Sure there is some trub...

Nothing wrong with being obsessed (well, maybe) but pragmatism is a good approach to brewing as well. At the end of the day if you know what you're doing and have done this a bunch, 5 mo old yeast is no biggie and won't cause heartburn. I just think of yeast packs as an innoculant for my...

Sounds about right. My guess is we often over.pitch a little using yeast calculators and "older" yeast, but I rather over pitch then under. Some of the calculators viability regressions are just too extreme (Mr. Malty and the yeast slurry option as an example). It's not a linear function, nor...

I just think we are talking past each other. To use your train of thought, I'm simply saying you can get the desired pitch rate using an appropriate-sized starter, even with yeast at 35% viability, most of us do that all the time. Pitch rate is a function of cell number and volume, right...

It wont be 35% after a giant starter. This isn't rocket science. If a starter is done correctly, even with a reduced number of cells to begin with, you can easily achieve the proper number of yeast. If anything, the manufacturers dates are conservative IMO, as described by Dr. White himself...