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So I'm considering making my first attempt at top cropping yeast. I have an APA on US05 which is still sporting an inch or so of krausen on day 8 but its still 10-15 points over my target FG. So I'm wondering if anyone has an idea of how much yeast I can safely skim off without negatively...

The million dollar question is... Did it taste like Fat Yak?

Yup. For all my brews, everything that goes in the fermenter, dry hops aside, gets at least a cursory boil. DME is probably pretty sterile but I'm not altogether confident with LME, canned or otherwise. This is mainly based on the coopers real ale can which came with my kit. I never used it...

Hehe yeah I guess the recipe breakdown was a little "non-linear". The additional 150g dex is for bulk priming, goes in the bottling bucket but adds to alc/vol so I figured Id mention it so that anyone checking my figures wouldn't get confused. Boiling the full 15L was mainly to drive off...

"How much difference in flavour concentration is there in fresh hops, flowers, and pellets?" I've never used whole hops myself, but differencewise, not much as far as I've read. It's funny basically every recommendation I've heard from commercial brewers down has been to use pellets. Seems that...

You're not crazy. I can't work out how to get around this myself. I come across it most often when tasting a dry hopped, green beer on bottling day. Big punchy hop taste straight out of the tank, then by the time its bottle conditioned the flavour and aroma have all but disappeared. Apparently...

Thanks for the help boys, But I've been thiniking about it overnight and I think I have a plan... A kind of hybrid, top fermented pilsener. A Pilsenale if you will... To clarify a few things, I'll be scooping out the bulk of the yeast cake from the fermenter and racking cooled wort straight on...

Hey all, I got a beer about ready to bottle and I'm thinking I should brew a fresh wort to rack on to (part of) the old yeast cake. I have about a kg and a half of LDME, a can of coopers mexican cervesa, plenty of dex, about 900g of coopers brewing sugar, simcoe, hallertau, and cascade hops...

By "need" I guess I mean, is trying to physically separate any cold break material likely to cause other issues with the brew? The process I was thinking of employing was to chill the wort in the urn/brewpot then let it settle for say 20min - 1hr and, tap a litre or so off the bottom and...

Awesome so I'm off the hook with hot break! Yeah bum all extract at this stage. Plastic Man the urn will still be there if/when i move on to BIAB/partials but for now I need to get my skills, technique and processes refined before I dive into all grain. Basically the plan, for the first...

G'day, I'm putting together an upgraded setup and collecting DME recipes ahead of my third brew (first two LME cankit brews were garbage due to multiple errors in technique). Anyway, the proposed thermostatically controlled 35L boiler (read big arse tea/coffee urn) and immersion chiller...

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