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I am hoping to brew tomorrow morning and am worried that my yeast starter is not active. I need some last minute help, if possible. I made a 1L starter 2 days ago and bumped it up to 2L yesterday. The vial of WLP-570 yeast was about 1 month past expiration and was in the fridge for several...

Thanks. Also, I feel as if I did not aerate the wort very well before pitching the yeast. Could this have any affect on the production of banana esters during fermentation?

First of all, this forum is amazing and I have learned so much reading the posts here day after day. Thanks so much. So... I recently brewed the partial mash version of the AHS Dunkelweizen kit. The beer has little to no phenol/ester flavors that I hoped would be pronounced after fermenting...

This is helpful, thank you. The beer sat in secondary for a month (after three weeks in primary) so I know it was done fermenting. The issue will be the excess priming sugar.... I guess I will crack one open at one week, two weeks, and three weeks to see how its going.

Hello. This is my first post on HBT. Thank you all for this great forum! I recently bottled an imperial stout and I am a bit worried about possible bottle bombs or over-carbonation. Here's some details: I had some cherry puree in the secondary fermentor and lost some of my beer volume due to...