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I have had the exact thing happen to me with this strain of yeast and I should have thrown it away. I kept reusing it to build starters and in my case it was the start of a bad string of infections. By the time I figured it out, I was getting sour beers in 2 weeks. I'm not saying that this is...

I have used k-97 before as a dry yeast for an Altbier but I still preferred WLP036. Another decent choice for me is WY2112 or wLP810.

Both of those pictures were over a day old setting in my basement at 40F.

My first dump was two days in while it was actively fermenting, same color as this time. I forgot that I had a picture of the first dump. It kept a thick layer of krausen and kept fermenting until I dumped it.

I brewed a schwarzbier recipe that I have done before and used a fermenter that I made from a half bbl keg. I have a 4” to 2” cone on the bottom for trub and yeast collection. I used Hothead yeast as I did before and did an initial trub dump at 2 days. I let it finish fermenting and went to...

for me 20lb exchanges are only a couple bucks more than 5lb. I have a hose to fill my 5lb from my 20 lb tanks.

For me, usually at least 100lbs base malt, probably 30-40 lbs of specialty grains, and 15-20 lbs of hops.

Buckeye Hydro, 3 stage (I don’t need a chloramine stage for my municipal water), 100gpd. It takes my water from 340 to about 10 according to the tds meter I bought with it. I do 10-15 gallon batches and just put water into pet carboys a day or so before I brew. Am glad I bought it.

Honestly it's too mellow now. Not saying it's bad, but it's so smooth now you can't tell there was bourbon added. I could use some help emptying the final bombers of this stout plus a couple others.........

That was my second brew. I added oak chips soaked in bourbon, and vanilla beans. That was a year and a half ago and I still have some in bottles, it's a good brew.

WindRiver has really good extract kits for a good price.

I ended up buying a 20 gallon Spike kettle and I do BIAB in it using a 5500w electric element. I can't give you the cost of any of the work because I built it all myself. I absolutely love doing it this way. It takes about an hour longer to do 10 gallons than it used to do 5 gallons in my old...

I chickened out on using the wlp099, the starter was still going too strong for me to interrupt it.

I have a yeast starter going to hopefully save a big stout that's stuck. I am planning an English Dark Mild brew on Sunday for a 15 gallon batch (3-5 gallon fermenters using a different yeast on each) that I'm contemplating on extending to a 20 gallon using Wlp099 on the 4th fermenter. White...

I did not dry hop that kit, it was one of my first brews and it did not call for a dry hop. I did brew the BB Imperial Pale Ale and I did dry hop it with great results. My advice to you is grab some extra hops, and do a dry hop in primary after about 2 weeks then bottle after another week. I...

I just kegged a honey ale today with US-05, bubbly yeast on top, yep that's normal.

My local place charges $12.xx for 5# and $16.xx for 20# exchange.

I’ve only been brewing for less than a year so I’m a total novice at this. My guess on the enzimes is like putting beano in the fermenter for low carb beers. Other thing that sticks out to me is the fermentation temp range 77.0F-95.0F. I wonder what the flavor profile is.

Anyone see or use this? https://fermentis.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SafAle-HA-18_EN.pdf

I have a couple unopened Billy Beers. Maybe they aged as well as a Belgian Quad.....