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After years of ale brewing, I'm finally taking the plunge into lagers and brewing a Marzen with WLP820 this Sunday. However, I recently realized how clueless I am in terms of specific protocols. These are the questions I have: 1) I can cool the wort with a chiller to about 65F. Is it okay to...

I have a strong dark belgian beer that started at 1.093 which I used WLP500 to ferment. After three weeks it was at 1.027 with little to no signs of continued fermentation while sitting at about 62F. I would like to get it down to the 1.018-1.020 range. Someone suggested using champagne yeast...

I put a 1.050 hefeweizen in the fermenter 11 days ago fermented with Wyeast 3068. The first couple of days of fermentation were furious, and I used a blowoff tube, but lost a good bit of yeast that way. Ferment temp got up to about 74*F before falling over the next couple of days to ambient...

Is it possible to split 1 Wyeast pack between 2 starters and get the proper cell count at the end of the starter fermentation? I want to brew a Hefeweizen and Weizenbock on two consecutive days with the same yeast. If I were to do this, I would split the original yeast between a 2 liter...

The two beers that I have in bottles with these yeasts seem to be taking forever to bottle condition. I have an oatmeal stout that has been in bottles for two weeks with WLP002(3.75 oz corn sugar for 5+ gal.) and it has very few bubbles. I did a pale ale that was at the same temperature with...

I'm thinking about brewing an Imperial Stout that will start out at around 1.088. I've never brewed anything over 1.070. What things should I keep in mind? How long should I leave it in primary and/or secondary? How long will it take in bottle before it's ready to drink? I like the idea of...

I heard somewhere that the CO2 levels will be different for different sized bottles. I am doing a stardard bottling procedure (making a corn sugar primer, adding it to the beer, and then bottling) and I'm wondering if I will get the same CO2 development in my 12 oz, 16.9 oz, 22 oz, and 25.4 oz...

I am planing to dry hop for the first time and I would like your thoughts on how to implement it. If I'm dry hopping with pellets should I let them "freeball" or use a hop bag? If I free ball, I would get good utilization, but I'm afraid I would get a bunch of hop sediment when I racked the...

Have you guys ever had problems with oxidation by using a 6.5 gal. carboy for secondary with 5-5.5 gal batches? Places I've read seem to warn against it, but I would like to get feedback from any of you who have done this.