Recent content by HB2112

Thanks Balrog I learned a lot over the last week. Now onto new adventures. I picked up a couple of used Corny kegs and a CO2 tank with a regulator from craigslist, still has CO2 in it, and a mini fridge setup for a kegerator on market place over the weekend. So the next batch gets kegged.

Man you weren't kidding. Chilled decanted spent wort and let warm up to room temp. overnight. I made a new starter this morning and the new yeast starter was doing it's deal within a few hours. Not huge foam but better than the last round. I'll save some of this batch and pitch the rest. How...

Thanks again for your help with this. I'll run another starter per instructions in the link you posted once I refrigerate and decant off wort.

I have a local hardware store that carries brewing supplies and you always have to check the dates on their liquid yeast. I found some that were almost a year past expiration date. I will definitely pay more attention to this in the future. Thanks again to all of you for your help.

Temperature has been between 72 and 74 F

Yes I did throw away the first starter to start the second one. And as you said it is finally turning milky and started doing it's thing, after 72 hours. However still not chugging away. When I turn up the stir plate I get about a 1/4 inch of foam that drops right back down. Every starter I've...

That's kind of what I figured. I'm going to give it another day and see what happens.

I bought some brew supplies a few months ago to stock up while on sale. I noticed the Wyeast 1318 smack packs I had were going to expire Feb. 7th. So I tried to make a starter out of the first pack. Starter recipe as follows 1500 ml distilled water 1 cup DME. Boiled this for 10 minutes...

Thanks Lizard. It's not an RO system. I'm pretty sure it's charcoal based

That's true didn't even think about that either. I use filtered water so most of that type of stuff gets filtered out but I don't think it'll change the PH.

Thanks DM I didn't think about that. I've got one of those "water distillers" a 5 gallon one too. It hasn't been used in a long time, but now it'll have a purpose. Besides taking up space.

I just received a letter from our water district saying that they're adding sodium hydroxide to our water supply to help with metal pipes and help their treatment system last longer. The current PH is 7.2 and they're raising to 7.8. I'm glad that they sent me a letter, even more glad that I...

Thanks Island Lizard. How long can you keep a starter going for? Is there a limit? Thanks

Thanks Lumpher I had a bad experience with a White Labs yeast that was 3 months past due. Had some really off flavors and dumped the batch.

Yes making a starter for sure. Called Williams this morning and they gave me a refund. At least someone has good customer service. The guy was apologetic and said to go ahead and smack them to see if they start up or not. So if they start up I'll go ahead and try them out. We really need a...