re: Homebrewing Thread: Volume II

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? are you getting good enough growth? I takes a good 2-4 days for my starters to get full growth.

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It is. Sometimes i do it 2 days if it's an old pack, but I'm hitting my FG marks in time and i'm getting noticeable signs for fermentation 3 or 4 hours after pitch, and vigorous fermentation within a day.

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with only a day im assuming you are activating the yeast but it isnt growing to its potential. But my beers also ferment in like 5 days

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I don't check my beers until at least 7 days. I try not to brew nor do transfers to a keg during the week, only on weekends, so i'm ok with letting it sit in the fermenter.

I will say though, my last NEIPA, I used bootleg biology's NEEPAH blend and made a starter a day or 2 before. It took a good 2 weeks to get down to my desired FG. But i also assume longer ferment times for NEIPA due to the biotrans hops causing slowed fermentation. But that batch did finish at 1.015, so i got the attenuation i was looking for.