Heres a first for this guy

The clarity has me confused actually. I am getting bubbles still, but starting to slow after 2 days at 70F , makes sense. This batch sure make the "bottom feeding " yeast of a lager seem pretty true ! Not sure of that even makes sense but makes me chuckle either way. Real excited to take a gravity reading...

Do you always use gelatin? I have , and have also used sparkaloid, great results with both. I am really thinking hard about just letting this one go all natural, I expect to lager it for a month anyway before c
Force carb anyway.
 
Giving in, waiting for a sample to settle out then I'll have a gravity lol, stay tuned...
 
I don't use gelatin , I use polyclar and find it very effective .

Interesting to see what sort of attenuation your alien delivers ..may need to invade their planet and create a brutopia
 
Old alien has out out 71% so far, 1.012, expecting 1.011 FG. Pretty much right on par to my diacetyl rest which is awesome !

Brutopia?
 
Haha, never would have figured that one out, but awesome!
 
This is what i mean by cloudy its @ 1.010 80% attenuation im not expecting anything more out of this yeast its done well to drop this 1.054 wort this low. Yep they can have a rest not till next weekend then ill pitch some of this slurry into.my benmarzin brew cant wait.

I use geletin every brew.
Ok sn00KY see how cloudy that test flask is i bet you in just 2 weeks i can have it looking near crystal clear in a glass for ya;).
 

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Let them rest, oh that's wicked. Yeasticles are just such an awesome being.

I can't wait to see the results, here's my sample, see if I can resist the gelatin....My will power is equivalent to a rat though ha!
 

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So Day 8, decided to secondary this batch since I did a full kettle dump, and going to lager. Transferred, kept a sample for FG, then displace headspace with C02 and into the chamber it goes. Controller set to drop temp 1 deg per 6 hours until at 32, then back to 34 to lager.
I took reading and my FG is 1.011 - 73.2%, expected 1.011 and 73% average from yeast used. I read the hydrometer 3 times in aw.

But to all this, the sample below, is straight out of primary, no settling time - I have never seen so clear, so early in the progress. This sure has been a different brew. Tastes about what I would expect for such a simple recipe.
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Just about to keg my Pilsner I'm brewing my Marzen today and will use some slurry from this brew:).
 
Speaking of! Last few weeks I've been telling myself I am going to start washing yeast and start a stock pile of the common ones I use, finally.
Low and behold, what do I do when I rack, boom right down the sink. Oh the church bells rang aloud for a minute this afternoon...arggg.
 
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Speaking of! Last few weeks I've been telling myself I am going to start washing yeast and start a stock pile of the common ones I use, finally.
Low and behold, what do I do when I rack, boom right down the sink. Oh the church bells rang aloud for a minute this afternoon...arggg.
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Yeah i think yeast perform better a brew or two in. I keep my dry yeasy this batch on 34/70 is 3rd gen on marzan itll be 4th. First time using slurry though i usually mix a good starter and pinch some of that before pitching.
Its a habit Snook :).

Below is my hazzy comparrison 81.5 attenuation accordingto calculator.
 

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What do you keep your yeast in between brews? Are you concerned of head space in bottle or top up with boiled / cooled water?

Hazy, but a lot more normal I figure! Did that yeast call for that high of attenuation?
 
sn00ky said:
What do you keep your yeast in between brews? Are you concerned of head space in bottle or top up with boiled / cooled water?

Hazy, but a lot more normal I figure! Did that yeast call for that high of attenuation?
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Ill be pitching that yeast tomorrow morn its wed arvo here atm. Ill let that chill to 10c pitch temp overnight.

I get average 80% attenuation out of 34/70 i step mashed and decocted that wort hoping for good attenuation as well.

I normally store my yeast under the fermented beer in small jars in fridge.

Check out brulosphers yeast handling thread i do same as that;).
 
sn00ky said:
Speaking of! Last few weeks I've been telling myself I am going to start washing yeast and start a stock pile of the common ones I use, finally.
Low and behold, what do I do when I rack, boom right down the sink. Oh the church bells rang aloud for a minute this afternoon...yaaarggghhh.
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Fixed that for you , no laws against speaking pirate anywhere I've been
 
I like the idea of storing under the beer, much easier than boil / cool (not hard I guess but hard to plan ahead). Thanks!
 
I build my starters to a higher cell count than needed then save a portion in grolsch bottles for next batch .
When quality liquid yeast costs as much as it does here in the glorious peoples republic of bottom of Australia I need to make it count
 
I too have done that just the 1 time, trying to hone in on my equipment setup, so built enough to pitch and enough to start another starter. This way I had same strain, same recipe, same everything and only difference is equipment changes I made, and process.

I would like to do this as well, but it seems I am not usually planned ahead enough to accomplish this without under-pitching. Going forward I think I am going to try this at least on my liquid yeast purchases!
 
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