Greetings. I've made a starter with a White Labs Kolsch yeast that has an expiration date that is thirty days past to be sure it is still vigorous. I assume that if it is still good I should get a nice development of Kreusen within some reasonable period of time. Is that correct?
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I brewed a slight variation of this last year for an Oktoberfest block party. I had only 5 lbs of Pils and 5 lbs of Vienna, so I added a lb of Victory to make up the difference. Additionally, I had no Hallertau so I substituted Willamette. This was also he first truly public exposure of my...
Just tapped the keg for this recipe that was my second all-grain brew. Turned out great. Thanks very much. I've got three in primary fermentation right now. A modified Sierra Nevada Torpedo. Had some extract lying around, so I used 4 lbs Morebeer Munich lme, 6 lbs ldme, 1 lb carafoam, 6 oz...
Sorry to be such a novice, but I wanted to be sure I'm reading your hop schedule correctly. Is that six hundredths (0.060) of an ounce of Bravo and 25 thousandths (0.025) of an ounce of Summit?
This is what's listed on the Boulevard website: Malt: Pale Malt, Unmalted Wheat, Malted Wheat
Hops: Bravo, Zeus, Summit, Cascade, Nelson Sauvin
I had this in Chicago last week and thought it was fabulous. Next on the list.
Good and interesting points you make about the yeast. I recently brewed a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale clone, my first all-grain, and after two weeks in primary, still very cloudy, and gravity down to about 1.010 - 1.012 from an OG of 1.053. I had used yeast harvested from Sierra Nevada bottles...