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My starter looked exactly like that when I used 1968. Beer turned out great! Just be careful when you pitch it - it can come out a little clumpy. Get it as well suspended as possible first.

Personally, I'd stick it in the fridge. That will allow the yeast slurry to settle out of suspension and also work on its energy stores. You can take it out of the fridge a few hours before pitching to let it get to room temp, and should be able to decant some of that clear, useless starter beer...

Have to disagree with some of my fine colleagues on this thread - craft beer is quite on the rise in Italy! I went there last year and was quite pleasantly surprised with what I was able to find with a little looking around! True that Italy has traditionally been a wine country, but the last...

Beautiful - relaxed and not worrying now. Thanks, all!

* Edit: that's Wyeast 1968, not 168 Hola amigos, I made a starter using Wyeast 1968 ESB, and the slurry came tumbling out of the flask in big, messy glops that partially flopped off the lip of the carboy - it was almost chunky, not like starters I'd done before. My question for you is whether...

Congrats! That's something I'm preparing to do - I've used a combo swamp cooler/space heater kind of set up til now. That's allowed me to stay within about a 2 degree band around my target temps, but I look forward to the day of not constantly having to run into "the beer room" (as my wife calls...

Update: it turned out great! Added some coriander and lemon zest for additional character. It probably had a little more mouthfeel than is appropriate for style. Oh, well, I was entering this one in anything, and folks LOVED it! Thanks all, and cheers!

Oh yeah!

Okay, amigos, I brewed up the blonde this week using Golden Promise as my base 2-row. This is meant to be an all-grain version of an extract recipe that I successfully brewed this summer using Briess Golden Light LME as the base extract, and I fortunately kept one bottle from that batch. So I'll...

I'm in! :)

Thank for the replies, amigos! I love Maris Otter, too, but the lighter profile of the GP seemed right to me. Maris Otter was my go-to for a recent ESB that I'm quite happy with. I'll follow-up with about the GP in the blonde if I go forward with it. :mug:

Good folks, I was considering the qualities of Golden Promise for use as a base malt in an American blonde ale (I do concede that that would make it not a purely American beer) . Has anyone had any success or otherwise doing this? If so, what other recipe ingredients did you find to be...

Dkeller, white labs advertises this strain as "fast-fermenting", so I thought it might have something to do with that. It actually has cartoon drawings on the label of yeast cells wearing super-suits with capes. Cheeky.

Thanks! It's in the same 6.5 gall bucket I used for a 5-gallon batch so, yes, lots of head space. I will breathe and check the gravity in a few days.

Good folks, I'm still a rookie, but decided to jump into all-grain via brew-in-a-bag after two successful batches of extract brewing. Soooo I started an amber ale ("Rapture Red" from the BeerSmith site) and decided to use the recommended yeast, WLP 090 ("San Diego Super Yeast"). I hadn't used...

Thanks, Ross - been hoping to come out to one of these! Is there an august meeting time & place yet?

Cheers, amigo! Glad to hear the first brew went well. :) - EC

I've racked to a secondary ferment with an oz of Citra hops in there. Proceeding from here with fingers crossed for my...double IPA extra special Imperial? Should be fun - will let you all know how it turns out!

All great info, amigos. Rest assured, I will be in much better control of my fermentation temp the next time around, thanks to you all. :)

ly - EC