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Okay, I'm brewing a hefe. Made a yeast starter, got an awesome, aggressive fermentation. A week and a half later, I checked the gravity. Reading was around 1.013. Perfect. Bottled today. Forgot to take a gravity reading before I started bottling, but figured its fine since the last reading I...

I'm planning on making an all-citra IPA tomorrow afternoon. I'll be making the starter this afternoon. My question is, should I go with an older vial WLP001 (expiration date is March 15) or a nice fresh vial of 051, which is pretty fresh (expiration date is April 5). Which one would you go with?

I'm making a yeast starter for a Belgian IPA. I built a stir plate and used it for the first time yesterday. Made a 1600 ML stater in a 2L flask using the Mr. Malty formula. After only 8 hours on the stir plate, the krausen reached the top of the flask. I was afraid of overflow, so I turned off...

So today, I made a yeast starter. 2 cups of water to 1/2 cup of DME. I was really excited because this was going to be the maiden voyage of my DIY stirplate (which purrs like a kitten, by the way). I poured the starter into a 2-liter flask (the starter barely filled the bottomthe the flask), and...

So I've been trying to construct a stir plate. Online tutorials have seemed easy enough, but man has it been frustrating. Thought I finally had everything wiried correctly. I set a filled liter flask on it and let it run. For a while, it was running like a charm, but then about an hour in, the...

Okay, it is time for me to dry hop my Belgian IPA. I took a sample for a gravity reading today, and, wow, was it tasty and very hoppy! . I used an once of Magnum for bittering and threw in an once of Centennial near the end of the boil. Going with a late addition hop method really made a...

I know I am probably worrying for no reason, but I just made my first Belgian IPA the other day. I'm using White Labs 545 Belgian Strong Ale for my yeast. I did make a starter. I do not have a stir plate,so I use the shake method -- I just give the jar a good shake every time I walk by it. It's...

Okay, so I've been reading quite a bit about late hop additions, and I think I might want to try this technique out with my next batch. I'm making a Belgian IPA - basically trying to get some similar to Stone's Cali-Belique. I was planning on boiling 14 aau of Warrior for the standard 60...

Okay, so I'm in the process of brewing my first Kolsch. Tasted fantastic after fermentation. Racked to a glass carboy and placed it in my fridge, where it has been sitting for about two months at 42 degrees. I have a couple of questions: 1) Has it conditioned long enough? 2) Do I need to let it...

I'm making a British IPA. It's been in the fermenter for about 16 days now. Took a gravity reading, and the reading was 1.020, obviously higher than I wanted it to be. Used 8.8 lbs of Pilsen light malt extract. I've gotten some advice to warm the beer up and give it a nice swirling to wake up...

I am currently brewing a british IPA from extract. I used 8.8 pounds of pilsen malt extract along with some steeping grains (12 oz. crystal 60, 2 oz. roasted barley, and 2 oz. smoked malt) and used White Labs British Ale Yeast. I created a yeast starter about two days before brewing day. Action...

I am currently brewing a british IPA from extract. I used 8.8 pounds of pilsen malt extract along with some steeping grains (12 oz. crystal 60, 2 oz. roasted barley, and 2 oz. smoked malt) and used White Labs British Ale Yeast. I created a yeast starter about two days before brewing day. Action...

I am currently brewing a british IPA from extract. I used 8.8 pounds of pilsen malt extract along with some steeping grains (12 oz. crystal 60, 2 oz. roasted barley, and 2 oz. smoked malt) and used White Labs British Ale Yeast. I created a yeast starter about two days before brewing day. Action...

So last night I get set to bottle a tasty SN Celebration Ale clone I've been brewing. As I'm siphoning the beer from my dry hopping carboy into the bottling bucket, I noticed that I'd forgotten to add my priming sugar. I quickly added it to the bucket. I not yet siphoned half the contents from...