Tad_Porter
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Hi Folks:
Psyched to find this forum! I've been haunting it for a while, but now it's time for my first post. I did a bunch of searches, and I couldn;t find that anyone had posted quite this question. Nevertheless, if this comes up frequently, and I missed it, apologies in advance....
Anyway, I've been bottling with gyle for about a year now. I love it: I think it helps make my beer taste and feel the way I want it to. Let me be clear: by gyle, I mean wort before I pitch yeast. Here's my procedure: cool the 3 gallons of boiled wort (I'm an extract and specialty grains brewer, for now), dump it into a carboy with 2 gallons of cold water, measure the SG, plug the numbers into the equation in the back of the Joy of Homebrewing (quarts of gyle=(12xgallons of wort)/((SG-1)x1000))), pull ou that many quarts, but it in a glass jar and freeze it until bottling time.
But here's the problem. I also make 1/2 gallon yeast starters, so after I run all my calculations and pull out the wort I need, I then throw in a half-gallon of yeast/starter, all of which has a different SG, and which then also increases the volume of wort.
How do I correct for this? Or should I not worry about a starter and just pitch Activator packs (I always make a starter from a propagator, and always have very vigorous fermentation within 10 hrs or so).
Thanks so much.
Psyched to find this forum! I've been haunting it for a while, but now it's time for my first post. I did a bunch of searches, and I couldn;t find that anyone had posted quite this question. Nevertheless, if this comes up frequently, and I missed it, apologies in advance....
Anyway, I've been bottling with gyle for about a year now. I love it: I think it helps make my beer taste and feel the way I want it to. Let me be clear: by gyle, I mean wort before I pitch yeast. Here's my procedure: cool the 3 gallons of boiled wort (I'm an extract and specialty grains brewer, for now), dump it into a carboy with 2 gallons of cold water, measure the SG, plug the numbers into the equation in the back of the Joy of Homebrewing (quarts of gyle=(12xgallons of wort)/((SG-1)x1000))), pull ou that many quarts, but it in a glass jar and freeze it until bottling time.
But here's the problem. I also make 1/2 gallon yeast starters, so after I run all my calculations and pull out the wort I need, I then throw in a half-gallon of yeast/starter, all of which has a different SG, and which then also increases the volume of wort.
How do I correct for this? Or should I not worry about a starter and just pitch Activator packs (I always make a starter from a propagator, and always have very vigorous fermentation within 10 hrs or so).
Thanks so much.
