Hoosierbrewer
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WHat does that make you? Obi Wan? Skywalker? Darth Vader?
WHat does that make you? Obi Wan? Skywalker? Darth Vader?
So my propagation went pretty well I kept feeding for around a week and got a fairly good layer of yeast at the bottom of my 1 gal glass jar. The cool thing is that the yeast chugged away on around 1/2 gal of wort for like a week!! I'm making a 10gal batch of Edwort's pale this weekend and I think I'll try 5 gal with the Pacman and 5 gal with the Notty and see what the taste differences are. Revvy am I ok making starters with the vials I have collected? I'm worried about getting too many generations along and having bad mutations.
So my propagation went pretty well I kept feeding for around a week and got a fairly good layer of yeast at the bottom of my 1 gal glass jar. The cool thing is that the yeast chugged away on around 1/2 gal of wort for like a week!! I'm making a 10gal batch of Edwort's pale this weekend and I think I'll try 5 gal with the Pacman and 5 gal with the Notty and see what the taste differences are. Revvy am I ok making starters with the vials I have collected? I'm worried about getting too many generations along and having bad mutations.
I have not had any luck. I took a gravity reading this morning, and there has not been any fermentation on the starter. I have pitched the yeast from the bottle of 2 different Rogue bombers.
I did learn something though. I must have boiled too much water off. The reading was 1.080. I added some filtered water today to give them a chance to start with a snack. The layer on the bottom of my 1/2 gallon jar is from the malt extract.
Could starsan or PBW kill the yeast? This jar was boiled for yeast harvesting and it does not look right now. The boiling water was softened, so I think it left some residue that I cannot get to come off. I cleaned it with PBW and starsan. If this does not work, I will have to just order some. I hate it, I planned on getting the yeast from some other bottle conditioned beers
Starsan actually helps yeast. It works as yeast food...
I have never, ever, heard of malt extract falling out of suspension in any wort, ever....If you boiled it with water it mixed in.
Take a picture of it will you? If it looks even slightly like this (Not mine)
Even if the line is only as thick as a fingernail...you got yeast.
I still believe you got viable yeast, despite what your hydro is telling you...I still think you should give it another feeding of wort.
Any tips? I am almost to the point where I think I should dump out the wort and pitch totally new wort on top of the yeast. My worry, is that I have not seen any action yet and I will pitch it and will ruin a batch of beer or at the very least delay fermentation.
Does dead yeast look different?
I knew there was a reason Revvy is higher than a lowly padwan.
Here's a list of bottle conditioned beers, and whether or not they use the same strain in fermentation and bottling...but it hasn't been updated in awhile.
http://www.nada.kth.se/~alun/Beer/Bottle-Yeasts/
It's not a great list...but it's the only one I've been able to find.
We have krausen today. I think the first batch i pitched was dead. It may have been shocked a little. Today, the thing is fermenting and boy does it smell like beer. I plan to wait to brew another week and step it up a couple of times before I pitch it.
Made a starter from one of the slants I made a couple of weeks back and got a good krausen within 12 hours, it's still happily chugging away. I can't wait to pitch it in the batch, I'm thinking it will really take off.
What does it smell like? Mine has a unique smell. Not sure how to describe it. citrusy?
Anyone willing to give up a Pacman slant. Willing to pay.
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