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Hello all, I am planning on brewing a tripel today with some substantial yeast needs - so naturally I made a 1.8l starter with my 3787 pack. However - the activity inside the flask never looked too vigorous. The last time I made the same tripel recipe with this same strain; I had krausen...

I intended to make a starter tonight with a wyeast smack pack only to realize (after breaking it) that I would have no way to cool the starter down before pitching it into the starter wort (my ice supply was depleted and stores were closed). So I threw that puffed up 1056 right back in the...

Hello fellow brewers and readers - I have just set up my pump system and whirl pool arm w/ my amazing co-brewer and girlfriend - and it rocks. However - she posed a great question to me that I was incapable of answering: How do you get the excess wort out of your pump and into your...

It is all to common to see recipes posted of ~1.060 - 1.070 OG with no mention of starters or double pitching. However - BeerSmith insists that all of my ~1.060 OG beers REQUIRE ~200 billion + cells. I have read about recipes hitting ~6% abv with great attenuation and no starters / dbl pitch...

Hello fellow beer enthusiasts and brewers: I have made a terrible mistake. I began hopping my rye pale ale with the hop schedule I allotted to an IPA I was planning on brewing.... and realized it 55 minutes into the boil. I believe this is a salvageable situation. I am curious however...

Hello homebrewers and beer enthusiasts alike. I have found myself making a disproportionately large amount of hoppy beers lately under various guises (IPA's, PA's, rye IPA's....etc.) and subsequently reading a lot about the methods of achieving great hoppy flavors. So this is a dual purposed...