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Is this a pellicle or mold? This was a cucumber ferment with dried dill and garlic cloves with a 5.5% brine (I know, that's too strong). If this is mold, how do ya'll keep your herbs from floating to the top?

Here's a run down in case you'd like to make any recommendations: This is only my 3rd batch. Just doing small 1qt batches to practice. This one is about 4 days old so I'm gonna force myself to wait another day or two to have a sample. Temp in house around 68F. Water is cloudy so it's looking...

I dont see why not, it's got a one way air valve on it!

Sauerkraut is next!

I have some questions about fermenting cucumbers to make pickles. It's been a while since I've been active in HBT, so I'm trying to relearn the layout of the site and the etiquette regarding posting. I didn't see a pinned thread regarding fermented cucumbers, but I could be overlooking it. I did...

I think comps are a great way to get advice and pointers but you have to take them with a grain of salt since it involves the human element. Someone above stated that sometimes the judges don't even get lunch which reminded me about a report done recently which showed that a prisoner's chance of...

Update: After pitching the vial of Brett on 2/2/14 I didn't see any activity except the pellicle form a few days later. Around mid April I did a taste test and the cider was still sweet and I was thinking about adding in some other type of yeast to complete the job that the brett never started...

Almost a year later and no takers? I'll take a stab at it and assume that stepping up a starter increases cell counts but maybe you want to have the growth happen at a rate that is deemed healthy to avoid lots of petite mutants or maybe some other kinds of negative effects?

What is your reason for wanting to transfer to a secondary? Lots of us don't bother with secondarys since there is not much benefit and you risk infection and/or oxidation. I would leave it for another 8 days or more and then bottle since the OG is a little high, it will give the yeast time to...

Coff, Thanks for the info and nice blog you have there! I dont have an exact OG yet but I plugged 1.055 into Mr. Malty for an estimation and went with lager rates since that is what some people say to go by with 100% Brett. I had also thought about only using the stirplate for the first couple...

Thanks for quick reply, dstar! Maybe I should start smaller like you did. It sounds like you know your stuff so let me ask you a few other questions...I have so many! :) 1) Do you mean you had a 500ml size starter at the end? How big of a batch & what OG will you use it in? Will you chill &...

Happy Friday! :ban: I have a vial of Brett C. WLP645 and want to do a 1.25 gallon batch with it. Mr. Malty say I need 96 billion cells and the vial has 1.8-2.7 billion cells in it. How big of a starter do I need to get from 1.8-2.7 to 96? I was thinking of starting with a 500ml starter and...

Now I'm wondering how I know when it's time to bottle?

I did shake it up vigorously for a few minutes.

Try Urban Sunshine in Altamonte Springs http://www.urbansunshine.com/brew-supplies?zenid=aa1394d3d9fe54a94106e55a5eb3c083 They have multiple locations but the Altamonte location has a better selection. Helpful and friendly.

I just realized maybe this would be better to post in the cider forum...

TNGabe: I've been reading up on beers fermented w/ 100% Brett and I came across a post on here about someone making a 100% Brett cider that turned out really tasty so it sounded like an easy experiment for me to try. I usually use S-04 in my ciders so I wanted to see the difference.

I pitched a vial of White Labs WLP645 Brettanomyces claussenii into 1 gallon of unfiltered organic apple juice and a few days later I saw what I hope turns out to be a healthy pellicle. I didn't see any activity in the airlock or even any co2 bubbles in the juice. Is it normal to not have any...

40watt: What do you mean by "if that's a pellicle"? Now you have me scared! I pitched the brett directly into a sanitized container of pasteurized apple juice so I hope it's a brett pellicle! Blizzard: I pitched a vial directly into 1 gallon of juice, no starter. I have a stirplate for when I...

It's quite easy. Get a scoby from someone in your area or order one from off the web and go from there. I did most of my research from just searching around the internet. In the end it was way easier than I thought it would be. You just make tea with sugar and add the scoby and then drink it a...