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I've used wyeast smack packs that come with yeast nutrients in their packs to make starters before - but this is the first time for me with a whitelabs vial. I'm planning on making a starter and have some youngs yeast nutrient, and was wondering if it's a good idea to add some? And if so how...

Hi people Hope you can help by looking at my ez water and bru'n water files and sanity checking for me. My main concern with both of these files is that they call for 10ml (ez water) and 18ml (bru'n water) so a 8ml difference. I'm using 80% lactic acid. I have hard water - 260 CaCO3 I have...

I was wondering if I'm getting as much aa extraction from the last dusty bits of hops in my 100g vacuum packed bags as I would from good sized cones. I'm doing a porter that calls for 22g of challenger at 90 mins. I was scraping the last bits out of the bag and had 20g of challenger which...

Your thoughts please. I had a couple of batches go sour months ago and I realised that I used the same FV with both batches so din't use it again. I have had no beer go bad since. Not wanting to throw away the suspect FV (as I was never 100% sure that was the cause), I bleached the thing...

So my second ever all grain biab brew done a week ago now. Firstly I've been amazed at how quick both my all grain beers have fermented. Huge airlock activity, small krausen for 3 days then airlock stops dead. I know that doesn't necessarily mean that fermentation is over. But still it's quick...

fellow brewers Situation is: extract brew in fermenter for 3 weeks now. Hydro reading after 2 weeks says it finished. Yeast used was harvested wyeast 1275. 2 jars of yeast used but no starter. Issue I have is this really gooey layer of yeast sat on top of my beer that will not floc. It was...

I have a few questions that I would like to put to you people of knowledge :-) I have done a wherry kit, added 250g light dme and dry hopped with 30g fuggles for 6 days. I racked to a secondary after 6 days ( I know thats contrevertial, and I don't want to get into that, I just wanted to see if...

As title says, I've had it 24 hrs in a warm place 19-21degrees in a ballyhoo pressure barrel. can't see through it, got no co2 lid, just standard lid, primed with 85g brewing sugar - so how can I tell if everything is going to plan. Ie secondary ferment is happening and pressure is building...

A few questions thank you please • How much space should I leave for the co2 to fill when I siphon from the fv. Couple of inches? Or will the pressure get too high? • I put too much water in the fv so I will have surplus wort left. Is there anything I can do with this? • One last...

Hi everyone. This is a great forum, thanks to everyone who has posted here. I'm currently brewing my first ale (Wherry), and reading through a lot of threads here has been invaluable. Helps put the noobs mind at rest when wondering if you've screwed things up. I've caught the bug already and...