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Thanks for the tips! Byo is where I found that style guide in the first place. As for the yeast, is it violent enough that I could lose a good amount to a blowoff tube? At the moment I only have 6 gal carboys so I usually use a tube. As for temps, I don't recall a banana flavor last time I...

also, the yeast date is 15 Jan 15 so it's still in fine shape timewise but when I got the yeast it appears like a strong sediment line of yeast has stuck to the side of the tube and won't shake into suspension. The settled yeast is darker in color than the filled tube so would this be dead...

ok minus the carapils then. Anything of note in mash time, temp, hops addition, ferm temp? Anything you can see that adds that lemony note the wife thinks is in there? Sample recipe prefers step mashing to aid in hydrolysis of ferulic acid to help with clover flavor. Was thinking maybe they...

Using Beersmith to attempt making my own simple hefe recipe....wife loves hacker pschorr. Trying to use the app I just start with my equipment, then select profile to set standard variances, and start adding ingredients. 5lb Best Pilsner 5lb GWM White Wheat 6.4oz Cara-Pils...

1.010 with a hydrometer. Still have yeast getting trapped up top, dissolving when nudged and falling to the bottom. It's a cycle..... I'm thinking waiting a few more days until it looks like it's all either fallen or up top and racking it off to the keg. Never getting a truly bright beer...

got an autosiphon as well, but I use it only to rack because it's got more crevices for bacteria to hide and I usually use PBW and star san to clean mine. Was hoping of something costing less to pull a sample or someone had similar issues with this yeast to let me know if it never falls or if...

it's looking like that's my only option at this point. I don't have a thief so I'll have to see if the wife has a baster around. If not I'll need to pick one up. Refrac and pipette are needed for times like this I think.

I did Beersmith's Easy Cream Ale recipe using East Coast Ale WLP008. As I read this is a top fermenter, and as then expected that's what I got. A good strong fermentation on top, leaving a densely packed krausen that almost looked like styrofoam floating on top. So, after 2 weeks and still...

I recently did a blue moon clone that I mistakenly racked into secondary after a violent day of ferment because I didn't have a blowoff. I let that finish for two weeks then kegged and keezered at 40. Beer tastes "green" and I was thinking should I pull this from the keezer and let it sit at...

Evening all.... I'm thinking of trying the honey orange wheat recipe from beersmith and I just noticed the mash sequence is 148 for 45 mins. In the past it seemed l like recipes I've downloaded from the cloud had several errors in them or were recipes people never even attempted. So with...

Is there an acceptable method to make an adequate starter out of only 1 11.5 oz dry yeast pack? I screwed up ordering and I wanted to start a zombie dust clone and only have 1 s-04 packet....malty recommends 1.2. Is there a way to compensate such as a larger starter?

ko.... thanks guys, adding at the end.

This must have been answered somewhere else but a search for this brings up hundreds of corn sugar threads with nothing about the when. Doing a cream ale with corn sugar and my thinking was to add it to the boil at 0 rather than mash it and run it through the grain in sparge? Is adding at...

Is this a lot of krausen for an east coast ale starter?

I'll save the advice for next time. As for this batch, 2/3 was racked and is now sitting in another carboy trying not to turn into a living creature. The 2lb of paste yeast and mess is in the tub soaking. Wasted wort. After all this mess, the question would still linger if it's possible...

all grain... yah the prob was no break was removed during the boil and it all went into fermenter along with most of the yeast. It's gun hunt opening this weekend, my dogs were all over the garage during the process and I had a neighbor staring at me waiting for it all to finish so we could...

Well I couldn't tolerate it anymore. I racked, and since I was enraged all during the entire process of racking I'm sure this will end up infected. The entire contents of the boil pot ended up in the fermenter. Never got a hot break or cold break so every iota of protein ended up in the...

Need a bit of help here... Did a blue moon clone the other day, never got a hot break or cold break. Not much left in boil pot. Now I've got a blown airlock with dried foam almost like cement and the entire airspace in the carboy is filled with this semisolid foam now that's not going down on...

so even hop backing takes out most of the aroma then. yah that was my thought, save a bit of cash by reusing, not wasting if I could help it. I did see some folks talking about bittering with used hops but I'd be more concerned with correct bitterness than aroma in an experimental batch...

Anyone ever do last minute hop additions then freeze and reuse the same hops in late fermentation? Was just wondering if anyone's tried this or if there's nothing left of the oils after the quick hot dip, that and if freezing them and reading them later again would add anything more to the...