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  1. Nagging Wife Brewery

    Yeast Starter - 1L before or after adding yeast?

    What I'm mostly thinking about is overbuilt starters. For the smack packs, there's really not that much volume but I typically will make a starter 500ml or so larger than what I need and save that for future batches. (I normally make 1.060+ beers which I've been told are a little too stressful...
  2. Nagging Wife Brewery

    Yeast Starter - 1L before or after adding yeast?

    Wow, yeah my CDO (the letters should be in alphabetical order) would stop me from getting to that level but it definitely tells the rest of us to calm down about some of the over-thought details.
  3. Nagging Wife Brewery

    Yeast Starter - 1L before or after adding yeast?

    When I'm calculating a yeast starter size, is the calculator counting on my total volume, with yeast, to be a 1 liter (or whatever the calculator tells me)? This is the assumption I've been operating under for a few years but have questioned it as I don't see anybody else is doing exactly what...
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    Has my malt gone bad?

    No that's the grain I'm talking about. I know, I expected it to have the words "2 row" somewhere too but they're not.
  5. Nagging Wife Brewery

    Has my malt gone bad?

    Thanks for all the help. I've put a space heater on low in the room with the grain for now. Up here in Juneau, Alaska, sun is not something we have much of this time of year. The grain still has a bit of a crunch but it's a noticeable decrease. I'll still plan on brewing tomorrow but tasting...
  6. Nagging Wife Brewery

    Has my malt gone bad?

    Here are the pictures. Do I dry it out just by leaving it exposed to the air for a bit?
  7. Nagging Wife Brewery

    Has my malt gone bad?

    I just opened my first bulk bag of grain last night - Briess 2 Row (well, it says Briess Brewer's Malt). Something about it doesn't seem right. It is slightly darker than the last bit of Briess 2 Row that I had leftover from a previous batch. It's not a large difference but enough that I...
  8. Nagging Wife Brewery

    Pilsner not Fermenting

    Finally! Activity! Krausen is forming and slow airlock bubbling. Thanks for the advice gentlemen. I'll be letting my freezer warm up to about 54 and hold till fermentation is over - per the advice here.
  9. Nagging Wife Brewery

    Pilsner not Fermenting

    My comment about this being yeast specific was more about S-23 possibly not liking the lower temperature. I'm going to keep raising the temperature to 52 instead of 50 to see what happens. I figure I'll have to go even higher to pitch an ale/hybrid yeast if that's the route I eventually go...
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    Pilsner not Fermenting

    At the moment, I've got nothing. Just a few bubbles on the surface that have been there since yeast pitch. I'll keep an eye on it however. Hopefully once it gets to 50 things will pick up. I've not used S-23 yet so could be yeast specific. I'll update in a few days.
  11. Nagging Wife Brewery

    Pilsner not Fermenting

    About 24 hours ago, I pitched some Saflager S-23 into a Pilsner I made and I'm still not seeing any activity. I picked this yeast up when I was down in Seattle in the fall but have had it in my fridge since. It was properly rehydrated and I used about 2.5 packets along with about 90 seconds of...
  12. Nagging Wife Brewery

    Can I fix a high FG after kegging?

    Quick update on this one. I did let the keg raise to room temp (about 68) and then pitched a packet of dry champagne yeast (not rehydrated). I gave it a week and then carbed it up over about 4 days. Taking a sample and degassing, the FG hasn't changed at all. I've found that the flavor has...
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    Can I fix a high FG after kegging?

    Interesting on not mashing high with a yeast like that. I didn't mention it before but I got more volume on this batch so I ended up putting about .75 gallon in a 1 gallon jug fermenter with some dry yeast - Nottingham. This is still in the fermenter right now. I think I'll leave it there for...
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    Can I fix a high FG after kegging?

    I just kegged a 5 gallon batch of an English brown this morning and took a sample during the process but didn't drop a hydrometer into it until after I'd kegged and poured in gelatin. I was expecting an FG of maybe 1.014 based on BF but got 1.017 and it does taste a bit sweet - but maybe this...
  15. Nagging Wife Brewery

    Leaking CO2 in Draft System

    I think I found it. At least I found a leak, hopefully the only one. It was a hose barb on the air line comming off one side of the Y splitter on the regulator. It wasn't the barbed side though. It was the male threaded end. It was rather slow so it was harder to find but a little more clear...
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    Leaking CO2 in Draft System

    I've got the owner of the local homebrew shop coming by tomorrow to take a look. I'm suspecting the regulator is involved in this somehow. Are you saying check the connections again at higher pressure? Or that I might just be losing gas when moving the keg and twisting the connection at...
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    Leaking CO2 in Draft System

    I've been losing CO2 rather quickly since I started kegging my homebrew this past summer. Prior to that, I used my kegerator for several years using only commercial kegs. My 5lb CO2 tank lasted more than 2 pony kegs on a single fill during that time. Since then, I've not been able to force...
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    I just cant get this right....

    For what it's worth I spoke to the owner of my LHBS and he had a similar problem a few years back. He ended up emailing Jamil Zainasheff and let me read the response. He basically said that one of our readings had to be wrong. That is, we screwed up measuring pre-boil gravity, pre-boil...
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    I just cant get this right....

    I just had a similar problem in a Pliny clone yesterday. You ever figure it out? My refractometer was off by .3 brix for preboil after I checked calibration but that's not even a point and I missed postboil OG by 9.
  20. Nagging Wife Brewery

    Does OG reflect trub loss in recipe builder?

    Well I brewed yesterday and hit all my pre-boil numbers. I went for a little higher volume than originally planned and started with 5.75 gallons of wort @ 1.050 (taken by refractometer), boiled for 90 min down to 4.0 gallons (kettle volume). My final OG was only 1.066 (taken by hydrometer)...

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