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Ok. I give. What is a PtE(1.1) beer Tom Hampton. Google results give me nothing.
KernelCrush said:Those acronyms get me every time. Thanks for posting the recipe. Saved. I recall your first one with pics. What a beast of a beer. What is it now, several years running as best beer? Wish we could order it online.
You can, Blackwellswines.com, subscribe to his newsletter and order from the newsletter email.
KernelCrush said:Bucknut, I went to that site and couldn't find a link to subscribe. Do you have it? Mail order beer I found doesn't work out so well. I got some Mirror Pond a few years back and either its not as great as its legend or it suffered in transit. Willing to try again for PtE. As long as Maine doesn't turn me in. Just kidding Maine.
tom_hampton said:I don't have a cold chamber where I can crash, so WLP001 always takes a couple weeks to clear at my storage temp: 47F (this depends on the generation, though...if I reuse WLP001 I can get better flocculation on gen3-5).
I make a 2 liter starter when I make this beer. Sometimes, I make a starter beer to grow a mass of slurry for the PtE batch. Some 1.045 OG balanced beer with the same yeast. Then I harvest and wash the slurry. On brewday, I add some starter wort to bring the slurry to life while I brew the batch. When I do this, I get better flocc from WLP001...and a better fermentation overall.
I found this thread interesting and I'm curious about the whole yeast thing. But first, if you had a cold chamber, what temp. would you crash it at and about how much C02 during this time?
As far as yeast and growing a mass of slurry, I'm with you but can you point me to a thread where you or others may have talked more about Harvesting and Washing the Slurry?
OzarkBrewer said:I found this thread interesting and I'm curious about the whole yeast thing. But first, if you had a cold chamber, what temp. would you crash it at and about how much C02 during this time?
As far as yeast and growing a mass of slurry, I'm with you but can you point me to a thread where you or others may have talked more about Harvesting and Washing the Slurry?
OzarkBrewer said:O.k. I understand. Cold crashing is just for lagers. I'll check out the Yeast guide. Thanks for the info.