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    Yeast starter

    Lol it could have been and I thought I've smelled it before but this was pretty stinky
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    Yeast starter

    Update... Pitched yeast and had signs within 16 hours...funny thing my bathroom smelled like rotten eggs..thought it was my gf stinking up the place...it was worst yesterday but now that the bubbling does down it doesn't smell much. Anyhow I know this can be a bacterial infection or bad yeast...
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    Yeast starter

    i think im going to roll with it...stop at the brew store this weekend and pick u p a back up dry yeast packet just in case the actual fermentation doesnt take off.
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    Yeast starter

    Was a white labs liquid yeast...normally i have back up dry yeasts but i just ran out last brew cuz i was using up yeasts that was going to go beyond its best by date. I cant say that its a lot more but possibly about the same amount. I may just end up having to go to the brew store tomorrow and...
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    Yeast starter

    i would say mine have all been the complete opposite...foaming krausen up and out the top of the erlenmeyer flasks.
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    Yeast starter

    I would say that is a fair statement. Before i swirl it and after it has been sitting for a couple hours i do see what looks like some bubbles on top but i have yet to see any krausen type material forming on top. What are the things this can indicate and is it necessarily a bad thing? should i...
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    Yeast starter

    So made a yeast starter with some London Ale Yeast on wednesday around 7pm at night PST. Has yeast nutrient and 3/4 cup of DME in about 1200ml of water that was boiled with the DME for 15 minutes and then cooled to 80 degrees, aerated and yeast pitched. Yeast was plenty viable...think the date...
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    How is old is too old?

    sounds like more than i could handle....i just want a buzz. hallucinating sounds a bit much. worst comes to worst i gotta fork out 5 bucks to get 4lbs of rye ive been doing AG for about 6-8 months but ive always used my grain within 2 weeks of milling/buying them. so this is a new question to...
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    How is old is too old?

    lol, yea i was curious what you guys thought...my thoughts are to take it down to me LHBS and taste test it compared to what they have....
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    How is old is too old?

    So i picked up some Rye from a neighbor that was moving and selling all his worldly possessions. He gave me the little amount of homebrew stuff that he had and i went ahead and took the Rye thinking it may be good. now i think this stuff could be anywhere from 6 months to 2 years old. How...
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    Loooooong ferm

    this beer better be amazing i can only control two fermenters at once lol been taking up valuable beer brewing time :mug:
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    Loooooong ferm

    day 20 still has krausen on top of it....still looks like a foamy latte lol. gravity is 1.019 checked with 3 hydrometers =) im thinking at day 21 i should rack into secondary....although i have been told you can leave in primary for up to 4 weeks with no adverse affects. Any feedback?
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    Loooooong ferm

    its White Labs Belgian Ale...its definently got time to go
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    Loooooong ferm

    update: SG reading tells me whats up...definently still plenty of sugar to ferment im at a 1.021 and according to beersmith my FG should be around 1.005 so i know there is plenty of sugar left to ferment which tells me why its still fermenting lol i guess my question becomes with such a...
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    Loooooong ferm

    So I made a wit on June 22nd which was 17 days ago...came out to a 1.051 wit. I used a 1.5L starter with some belgian ale yeast and when i threw the starter in i didnt put the flask in the fridge overnight like i usually do to settle the yeast out i just pitched the whole starter straight in...
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    Batch to Fly

    I have a 60 quart rectangular cooler with a manifold for my mash tun and my HLT is a 48 quart cooler....i drilled a 1/2" hole through the top of my mash tun to feed a 3/8" ID tube through it....that is connected to a plastic circular lawn watering ring...
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    First Epic Fail

    nope just 5....i was told to go slow so i did =).....plus stanley cup was on so i wasnt in any hurry....its learning i really wanted to go to slow as oppossed to too fast so next time i know i can open it up a little more
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    First Epic Fail

    have no doubt it will be drinkable beer just gonna be super strong....was already gonna have an OG of 75 so god only knows where im gonna land....i considered adding water to help dilute but i figured this batch has been screwed up so much already that i may as well just let it go and see what...
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    First Epic Fail

    its been windy all day and its actually died down late here in the afternoon i was sitting 5 feet from the thing but i was inside and it was out...damn stanley cup finals. honestly im just glad nothing broke! oh well its my first mishap with brewing as far as a major problem or (knocks on wood)...
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    First Epic Fail

    Soooo I have been calculating calibrating and crunching numbers for over a week getting ready to do my first fly sparge and really get the math behind writing grain bills, determining boil gravity...hitting the OG you want etc etc..... yea well 70 minutes into my sparge with about 30% more to...
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