re: Homebrewing: In-Process Thread

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My point was, isn't the reason you pay more for Gigayeast to not have to make a starter with it? Why pay more for the same yeast (assuming we are talking about the Cali Yeast) if there is no benefit from using it?

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I use them bc I like trying new yeast strains, it's only $3 more than 1056, and the packaging looks like the NES legend of zelda cartridge.

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My point was, isn't the reason you pay more for Gigayeast to not have to make a starter with it? Why pay more for the same yeast (assuming we are talking about the Cali Yeast) if there is no benefit from using it?

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Well you also have to think about those that step up their starters. I don't do this, i do a simple 1 liter starter a day or 2 before pitching. So if i'm using white labs or wyeast, i have no idea if i reached 200 billion cells because i don't think beersmith calculates for stepping up a starter. It also depends on the age of the yeast as well.

I personally haven't come across any negative effects with Gigayeast and starters. Granted 1 IPA was with the Vermont strand and it finished out at 1.014. My brown ale won't be ready to drink until next week so i won't know the flavor profile completely, but it tasted fantastic when i measured the FG which was at 1.012.

Oh, and i dry hopped the brown ale with 2 oz. cascade and 1 oz. centennial, per the boards suggestions, and it tasted pretty good. More of a hoppy brown ale than a traditional brown ale, but it was an American Brown so i guess that is the style.

I didnt mean to start the back and forth yesterday. Sorry to bring down the board with my laziness.

Yeast Starter question:

We are brewing an IPA next Saturday. We haven't used a starter yet, but figured we may want to on this one since the OG is estimated at 1.069. After googling and reading Palmer's method, I found this LINK

Does that method look okay to yall? Will 1 quart be enough of a starter? Too much?

We are planning to use a vial of WLP001.

Thanks fellas.

I am looking for a good extract recipe for a 1 gallon batch of cream ale. Any suggestions?

I've got 5 gallons of wheat that I'll be adding blackberries to tonight

They actually make 1 gallon extract recipes?

Try something like

300g Pilsner DME
300g Light DME
150g Rice Syrup

15 IBUs Liberty @ 60 mins
3g Liberty @ 0 mins

half a pack of rehydrated US05 dry yeast
ferment in the low to mid 60s

Brulosophy did another trub experiment

LINK

I made a blueberry cream ale a couple years ago using the AHS extract kit. Using Beersmith to scale down the recipe I got something like this:

1.5 lb of Pale LME

steeping grains:
2.2 oz Carapils
1.5 oz two-row
.75 oz Crystal 40
1.5 oz malto-dextrine

0.1 oz Willatte hops @ 60
0.25 oz Fuggles @ 5

WLP080 Cream Ale Yeast Blend

Working on checking hydrometer and refractometer accuracy while I have a bunch of RO water laying around... I know you're supposed to use distilled but I can't imagine it's THAT much different than RO? maybe I'm wrong, I don't know.

First two shots are water. Please excuse broken hydrometer test jar...


Refractometer is dead on after a slight tick up on the calibration screw(was at .999ish)



Making some starter wort now to compare with wort. Already not happy with hydrometer. What would you call that? 1.003?

So again now with wort.

1.034-35


Guess it's safe to say hydrometer is off by a good .003-.004?

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I stopped using my el cheapo refractometer because it was unreliable. It read fine at 1.000, but the higher it got, the more it got off. I compared it to two hydrometers. The hydrometers matched up. The refractometer was off by about 5 on a 1.050 wort.

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Yes. Apparently there's a new adjusted scale that should be used for refracts on the SG side.