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My friend Gubby describes it perfectly: "I typically get an interesting pale stonefruit/tropical fruit ester from the US-05 at warmer temps." This is exactly what I get as well.

I have used all 3, and also agree that the S-05 is estery. Every beer I do with that yeast, no matter what the Dryhop / Aroma hops are, they have a very similar aroma. Changed to 001 and 1056, it changed completely. I strictly used 05 out of convenience, but have since sworn off of it (unless no...

LOL. yes, it was. hmm I wonder how you knew GUBBY? Hey AJ, I thought you would be on here by now. It's all good, it was probably the harvested yeast anyway... :mug:

@BobbyM: Yeah, I am using this calculator from Eric in my Homebrew club: http://onebeer.net/refractometer.shtml It always seems to happen to me to. Especially this time b/c he was asking TONS of questions and I was going through everything with him. He is new and jumping straight into...

How did you know?! I was teaching my friend All-Grain. Wow, it really must be that... :-)

7 days with 3oz then 5 more days with 3oz. cold crashed, kegged, force carbed then served 24hrs later. I have done this with 6oz of hops before and it was fine. I'm pretty sure it was the yeast. Which is weird because I did another batch with the same harvest and it was fine. I'm pretty sure it...

I don't get it. I have never had a a bad beer, or at least an undrinkable one. Had an overall normal brew day, but used so many hops that it jammed up my ball valve. Ended up pouring through an un-sanitized strainer (i know, rookie mistake :-P). Then I pitched some harvested yeast. When I...