pitching

I did a double brew the other day and didn't really have time to pitch the wort until today. I went to do it tonight but it seemed to have pressure inside the 5 gal buckets, everything smelt normal and looked normal but it had me worried if some contamination happened. I really don't want a...

Well I’m stumped. I’ve brewed lots of cider and never had any issues but this time… I juiced (not pressed) 4 gallons of apple juice and strained through cheese cloth. It still had between 1 and 2 inches of pulp settle out at the bottom of each 1 galling jug in my fridge. I put two campden tabs...

Dear brewers, I have been looking at several places but cannot find any reliable info on this specific topic. With some friends, we bought a SS brewtech chronical fermenter. As mentioned in many textbooks and in the user manual, the best is to fill the fermenter by the bottom, in order to...

I have 2.75 gallons going into the fermenter for a final volume of 2.5 gallons in the keg. I have brewed two batches on this new little system I have and both times my wort has just tasted kinda "off". Both batches have been around 1.050-1.060 gravity and I have pitched 5 gallon yeast packs in...

I have just recently washed yeast from a batch of Cream Ale that has finished it's fermentation period. I used approximately 1 gallon of water to wash the yeast, and have poured it off into 2 containers which are currently sitting in my fridge. I know that the yeast multiples during the...

So, despite knowing better, I had extra ingredients around and I decided to brew a new batch the day I was racking over my Saison. For the Saison I used the WY3711 (I washed and saved this too, because it is the most fantastic strain). After racking into the secondary and adding my Brett I...

hey guys, I pitched my second brew without blooming/activating my dry yeast, and morning after setting the beer to ferment I haven’t seen much going on. Slight bubbling, small white bubbles around the top. The instructions in my homebrew kit were fairly vague and didn’t mention blooming the...

Followed the Edwort's apfelwein recipe to a T, except may have underpitched the yeast.... not sure if that's the problem.... I pitched about 2/3 of a dry yeast packet (Montachet's champagne yeast), and it's been in the fermenter for 8 days. I took an SG reading today and got 1.052 (OG was...

I bought some ingredients and liquid yeast for a batch about 2 months ago but never had the time to brew. Now that things have calmed down I would like to make another batch but I don't know if my ingredients are still good. Can I still use the yeast I bought a few months ago? In general how...

I'll be brewing today but the yeast I've been waiting on probably won't get here till this evening. It's my day off so I can't really change when I brew. I normally let the cooled wort sit covered in the brew pot with the lid sprayed with Starsan and covered in tinfoil for 30 minutes to let a...

Hello everyone, I have read the forum for quite some time, but this is my first post. I will be making a Scotch Ale this weekend with an expected OG of 1.083. I just did the math for the starter and came up with about 295billion cells needed for the pitch. That's close to a gallon of...

Knocking out onto a yeast cake is never a good idea. It is - outside of a very, very few specific instances listed below - always over-pitching. Many amateur brewers report acceptable results by this practice. That's fine, and I applaud their success. Their success does not excuse that this...