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5 gallons of Session IPA, All Day IPA clone. 12846

Racked my English IPA to carboy and into fridge to cold crash

Joined the AHA. Been meaning to for a while and finally went ahead and did it.

Yeah. I just checked MrMalty too with the same result. Glad Im starting early. Thanks for the reply.

I decided to brew this weekend and picked up some oldish yeast from the lhbs. Its wlp023 - Burton Ale. Dated best by 1/1/15, so I figure that puts my mfg date at 9/1/14. When I plug this into the yeast calculator, it states viability 0.00%. Is this right? What now? Buy more yeast? Just pitched...

Bottled my Winter Warmer. And grabbed a sample. Delicious.

34115 + 5 Winter Warmer = 34120

Sweet. Good job. Here's to a great fermentation.

I did neither. This was before my starter days. I pitched a smack pack, realized it wasnt enough after it didnt go, and pitched another. I could pull it off now, but then, not so much. Each piece that Ive built has had utmost importance, but stirplate singlehandedly transformed the quality of my...

Brewed this last year. Was my first big beer and my first attempt with liquid yeast. Beer had great flavor. Tasted wonderful. But I horribly underpitched the yeast and so it never quite got right. This brew is what drove me to build a stirplate and start doing starters. My advice obviously is...

Awesome. Thanks for the info. Sounds like I'll be just fine. Hope to get started tonight.

Getting ready to brew a somewhat bigger than normal beer, a Winter Warmer. Its going to be about 8.4-8.5% abv and is starting with an orig grav of 1.080. Brewers Friend and Yeastcalc both say I need 402 billion cells. They also say that I can do this with my stirplate doing a 1L starter...

+ 5 Pale Ale + 5 XPA + 5 Belgian Wit 16,797 Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Yes. I can do that. So just stick it in the fridge after it swells and then about Weds or Thurs make a starter as usual? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Hey guys. I was all pumped for a brew day today and smacked my yeast packet this morning. Now its decided to rain. What should I do now? Cant do the boil on the burner because the rain would get all in it. How long will the yeast pack be good for? What should I do if I cant brew until next...