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Hi All, I've got an old vial of Brett.C (9 months out of date) and was planning to make a starter over the next week or so and pitch it into a bitter towards the end of primary. Does anyone have experience with this/think it won't work?

[Insert salutation appropriate to time of reading] All, I've recently had a shower thought I'd like to share and discuss. After watching several videos on making sour dough (yeast) starters for breads and reading that a starter can be spooned out thinly on a baking sheet and then dried to...

Hey all, Any advice (I'm a complete newbie) on what I did wrongly or should do in future would be greatly appreciated. I'd read somewhere the Festival World Beers Kit- German Weiss can be a vigorous ferment so didn't fill to the advised 23 litre mark but just under, thinking that'd help me...

Hi, I made a starter 4 days ago using White Labs WLP590 French Saison Ale Yeast, let it do its thing for just over 24 hours and then put it in the fridge for about 3 days to let it cold crash. The first thing I thought was strange is that the yeast wasn't really flocculating out like I had...

Anyone here familiar with using agar plates and cultivating wild yeasts? I’ve attached some photos of three semi successful agar plates (my first attempt) using a wild yeast starter from my back garden on the northern outskirts of Glasgow. Now I’ve tried searching online as to how to ID decent...

I’m looking at buying one of the 50l systems, most likely the Hopcat and want to bottle my beer initially. What additional equipment do I need? I’m struggling to get together an exact list but so far think I need: Chiller (comes with Hopcat) 2x 25l stainless steel fermenters with air locks...

I pitched liquid British Ale II Wyeast 1335 a few days ago (at 19 degrees). Only 2-3 days after I found the packaging in the thrash to check the manufacture date and it was 13 Nov 2018 which could explain why the fermentation had not kicked off. Ordered two packets of dry SafAle S-04 which...

I’m going to bottle a been today that has been conditioning for 4 months. Obviously, I need to add some new yeast to the bottling bucket right before I bottle. I made a yeast starter yesterday with 750 ml of water, 60 grams light DME and 10 grams of Fermentis SafAle F-2. When I bottle the beer...