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I was assuming you were repitching the yeast from the fermenter for a few generations. I do the same with the frozen vials

Finally had my first real imported Kolsch a few weeks ago. It was Gaffel and I think 2565 would definitely hit the ballpark of that strain. Of course their beer was way cleaner than I've ever been able to get 2565. Hoping to find Fruh this evening to give it a go and see how it compares to...

Do you notice any differences with repitching Lutra? Pros/Cons?

I've never gotten a twang from Lutra. But it definitely has esters. Also the fermentations were kept sub 75F so that may have helped

If you're dead set on Kveik I think Lutra would be a strain that could be tried. I'd keep the kolsch at the higher end of the IBU's, and lutra around 68F, though to help cover up some of the esters. Novalager could make a koslch too but I'm not a fan of that strain and that's not kveik.

Has anyone figured out how to delete the remembered mash profiles on the device? I know how to do it in the web portal, but, this does not clear out the remembered profiles on the device. I have around 20 or so and would like to clear it out without wiping if possible.

I may just have to try Silafine in that case. I wonder if you could just dose a keg with it and leave it in the keg for the duration of serving?

The beer buddy is 150 micron. The washable filter is 1 micron so pretty significant difference in filtering

I currently use the floating dip tube and filter in the fermzilla and that definitely does help keep the big crud out. I'm more concerned with the other crud that gelatin drops out and such. After seeing these comments though I'm seriously considering calling the filter idea a wash

I am able to crash chill and would be willing to put in the extra effort in filtering with the above setup if it would significantly speed clarification up with problem yeasts such as 1007, 2565, and heck even lagers. The filter I referenced was a 1 micron washable filter. Have you had much...

I got lucky and had a brewery open about 6 doors down from the house. They got the ward labs report and our water is pretty much bare as is so it's perfect for light brews and lagers. The most TDS I've ever pulled unfiltered is in the high 30's which is insane. I moved to only using tap water...

I'll chime in here. I'm currently using Omega German Lager 1 DKO. After getting a tad familiar with WLP830 and W34/70 I have to say this is the best variant of the strain. It's just clean throughout the full fermentation and I find it a good bit crisper in my home brewery than the other...

I've never used the white labs variant, but, I've used Omega Bayern which is supposedly the same strain. That's a good strain! I do want to get my hands on one of the WLP860 dry yeast packs and prop it up in a starter to see how it stacks up

Yep that's the bioengineered version and the best version of 34/70 yet imo. Omega did a really good job with that strain! I feel your yeast shipping pains. Living in FL really limits the time of year you can get yeast shipped down to a few months.

This is the only version I've ever played around with. So far I absolutely love it!