Damn
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How important is it to get pitch rate right? I'm just starting my 3rd year of my apprenticeship into home brewing. I mostly make Pales & IPA's The last 7-8 brews I've used whitelabs liquid yeasts. I've found my beer to be not as good as when I was using 15g packs of US-05. So I thought I may go back to the dried yeast. But on reading some, contrary to HBS & the yeast instructions (which i only skimmed over) its apparent I need to make a starter. Most of my beers are 1.050 - 1.065 but the most recent one I've made with Abbey Ale (WLP530) is 1.070. I just tipped the tube straight into the wort as agreed by HBS. Have I screwed this beer? Been fermenting now for 7 days. Anything else I can do to that brew?
I'm taking this as a valuable lesson learnt and will look into getting a stir plate and making starters for bigger beers.
I'm taking this as a valuable lesson learnt and will look into getting a stir plate and making starters for bigger beers.