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    Champagne yeast starter

    I want to bottle my saison that has been on a secondary fermentation with Brett for the past 8 months. My plan is to use a packet of dehydrated champagne yeast (Lavlin ex-1118 saccharomyces cerevisiae). This is my first time using wine yeast to carbonate so any advice would be much appreciated...
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    Brett brux starter

    I made a 1liter starter of Brett brux that has been sitting for 9 days now. I used DME like you would for any starter. I don't have a stir plate so I've just been swirling it whenever I can. It hasn't shown hardly any activity but I noticed today that the smell has become funkier and more...
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    Brewing big beers

    I'm interested in brewing big imperial IPAs and imperial stouts with my 10 gallon water cooler mash tun and 8 gallon brew pot. The problem is I only get about 60% mash efficiency at best when I load up the mash tun with grains. Should I adjust recipes to be partial extract to get the ABV? Any...
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