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Is there anything wrong with not cold crashing in between yeast propagation steps? I want to take a 750mL starter and add that whole volume into a 2.7L volume of wort (total wort volume 3.5L, or 5X the original starter volume). Ideally I want to aim for the OG of this 3.5L to be ~1.040. Does...

I use beersmith2 - and for most other recipes I hit the numbers +- 0.002 pts. I think it must be the mash temperature, I haven't tried to go this high before. lessons learned!

I would think it was that much crystal too, but its the same percentage of Yooper's award winning stout. It was definitely supposed to finish high, but more around 1.016...

I was recently making an oatmeal stout, taking a bit from Yooper's stout recipe with the following grain bill: 67% 2 row 6.7% coffee malt 6.7% flaked oats 6.7% victory 3.4% flaked barley 3.4% crystal 80 3.4% pale chocolate 2.5% carafa III yeast: Imperial A07 (Flagship) - 2.1L starter with...

The high pressure regulator that shows how much is in the tank is dropping, about 30psi per day

Help! I am losing co2 pressure from my set up that uses this regulator ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002QAP6JC/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 ) - I lost a whole tank in only one keg, so the leak seems to be very slight. I keep the co2 in the kegerator as i don't have a way to get lines into the...

Yeast was 1 month old (5/1/18), I used 85g DME/850mL wort. Starter temp - 69F (20.5C)

Hey - This is my 3rd time using Wy2565 for a Kolsch. I am following my usual starter procedure of using a 1L starter on a stir plate for 24hrs before pitching. Only this time, I made my starter last night and this morning I see zero activity (no bubbles, or any sign of life). It has been about...

Thanks for the heads up. Even after 15 days, the yeast stayed suspended until I transferred to a secondary for dry hopping. It tastes and smells great, though I lost about a 3/4 gallon of beer from the poorly compacted yeast cake!

Thanks for the comment. I guess i got too used to being able to turn a pale ale or IPA around in 7 to 10 days, I got impatient.

I recently pitched a packet of imperial yeasts A24 (dry hop) strain into a 5 gallon batch of 1.073 og wort. The fermentation took off quickly but now on day 6, the beer looks extremely cloudy and powdery. Is this normal for this strain? It appears as if there is alot of yeast/hop/trub floating...

Are you able to get a 6-7gallom batch boiling on your stove? I’ve heard it was impossible, or is it only painstakingly slow?

I’m looking at this on their site but I don’t think I understand what it is they are selling here https://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/hotrod.htm

Help!!! I will soon be leaving my apartment which has gas burners on the stove and will be going to a new apartment that uses electric coils (gasp). I have been doing all the research I can but can not find a good answer on how to boil ~6 gallons of wort for an All-grain set and I don't want to...

What length lines do you have for this kind of setup?

I clean them out with the line cleaner between each keg use, so about once a month they get cleaned.

So I have been kegging for about a year, and thought I had done my research to figure out how to serve properly. But no matter what, the beers always come out a bit too foamy. Furthermore, I can't serve different style beers with more volumes of CO2 without excess foaming either. Right now, the...

That's a good point. I'll make the starter a little bigger than beersmith predicts. Thanks!

I want to try cold crashing my yeast starter but I will be out of town until the night right before brew day, so I won't have enough time to do this as John Palmer describes. Instead, here is my plan. Can anyone tell me if this process looks ok or how you would adjust it? Make a 1.6L yeast...

I am wanting to use some of my recently acquired hop hash in making a NEIPA. I plan to use 1-2oz at flameout/whirlpool as suggested usage. My question is, what process do you use in order to use this as a dry hop addition? From what I can tell, it is very difficult to solubilize the high oil...