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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...

FYI it's Wyeast 2308 Munich lager for a Stienlager clone recipe. Thanks

Couple of things first off Rogue Valley Brewing in Grants Pass has become a bar instead of a brew supply store. This really sucks and other than Blackbirds in Medford, which has yeast that expired months ago, we don't have a brew supply store worth a sh!@. So I ordered some yeast from Williams...

Thanks guys for all of your help with this I appreciate it. I made another batch using Wyeast 1968 this time. I also went the extra step and made a starter with it. The brew started at 1.046 and finished at 1.010 after 10 days. I bottled yesterday and it smelled good and tasted good. In 10-14...

Alright I looked on FB market place yesterday and found an old fridge set up for a kegarator. I'll set it up as a temp controlled fermentation chamber for now and maybe use as a kegarator if I start kegging my brew. It works fine, and has some great stickers on it

Thanks Dancy