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Quick update: just to see what might happen, I turned off the stir plate at pitch + 19 hours and capped the flask with an airlock. Started seeing fermentation bubbles within 15 minutes. :)

(Sorry if this is common knowledge, but I've tried many searches and can't seem to find an answer to this in any of the threads about starters and stir plates.) I made my first starter last night and have had the flask on a stir plate for about 12 hours, with a nice steady vortex. There's 750...

OK, I guess I'm confused between what partial mashing and what steeping are. Let me describe what I do with the specialty grains and hopefully you can tell me which process this is (or if it's a combo of both, or maybe neither)... I crack the specialty grains, one type at a time, in a big...

Well, if you look at the above Hefe-Weizen recipe, you really wouldn't be getting much in the way of fermentables from the small amounts of those particular specialty grains, would you? The LME should convert to about 3 lbs. of DME, so the total DME is 4.5 lbs. To get to the target OG of 1.053...

Yes, I'm cracking (not grinding), steeping and sparging the specialty grains per the recipes. btw, they don't say to mash them but to steep and sparge, so it sure sounds like they want you to do a partial mash. From what I've read, partial mashing doesn't really contribute many fermentables...

Not sure what you mean by my "efficiencies" (is that an all-grain measurement? I've never made all-grain), but my partial mash measured OG's have always been extremely close to the target OG's for other recipes that I've made from other (non-BYO) sources. Again, I've reviewed these with my...

(I've searched the forums and can't find any threads about this subject) I've been going through some of the recipes in the BYO Magazine's "150 Classic Clone Recipes" special edition, looking at the "extract plus grains" versions. I've noticed that the amounts of extract for the recipes I've...

Even though I don't know much about ESB's, thought it might be useful to include part of the BJCP guidelines for ESB's (Style 8C):