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Please Help Bad Taste

I created a yeast starter with Wyeast 3724. I brewed a Saison and tried pressure fermenting at 90F = 32C with a spunding valve set at 10psi; big mistake. Wyeast recommend fermenting at this temperature. It started out OK but then went for a week and 2 days of no fermentation and developed a horrible...

Wyeast 3724 Starter

Wyeast recommend fermenting their Wyeast 3724 at 90°F = 32°C to prevent the dreaded stuck fermentation. I use a stir plate. I live in England and have to add heat to ferment as opposed to keeping things cool. What temperature should I have the starter? If I have to keep the starter at 90°F = 32°C Ho...

Pitching Rate of Yeast

Please could someone check my yeast pitching calculations for a Saison. Batch Volume 38 Litres OG = 1.051 Wyeast 3724 Belgian Saison Liquid yeast Step up Yeast starter 700ml and then 1.4Litre with stir plate. Using http://www.yeastcalculator.com/ I get it to 360 billion Yeast Cells Which is nearly 4...

Re: 0 Minutes

I've just realised that this topic should have been in Hops and not in here.
Please could an administrator move it to hops.

Re: 0 Minutes

Thanx for the reply Shore Points, I do not cube the hot wort. The thought of handling hot wort seems dangerous to me, and the thought of putting hot wort into a plastic cube sends a shiver down my spine for health reasons (that is, hot liquid in plastic and the reaction plastic has) I've never timed...

0 Minutes

If I put hops in at o minutes, how long do I leave them in the wort.
I no chill my wort. ie I let it cool over night.

Re: Disaster

Thanx for the replies Scott and Mad-scientist. Scott, I've harvested yeast and stored it in glass jars turned upside down to prevent air getting in them. It also worked quite well but I would not store them for more than 3 weeks. (use in two weeks is better) Mad-Scientist, The slants were kept in th...

Re: Storing wort

Thank you for your replies Scott and Mad-scientist. Scott, I did not think of band-aid ester taste so I won't store the wort. It is not worth the risk. Also I do not like the idea of handling almost boiling wort and putting it in a cube for two reasons, To dangerous and hot wort in plastic is probab...

Disaster

I don't want to scare anyone but:-

I went to great lengths to set up and store yeast in slants and I was painfully hygenic using A septic techniques.

I've just had to throw away 46 litres as it turned the wort into the worst thing imaginable.

I've given up trying to store yeast.

Storing wort

Does anyone ever store their unfermented wort for say 5 days until a yeast cake is ready.

Would I be able to store unfermented wort in a fermentaion vesel for 5 days in a chiller?

Petri Dishes

Do I need 3 vented or single vented or non vented petri dishes for yeast for brewing beer.

Also does anyone sanitise / sterilise Polystyrene Petri Dishes, If yes how do you do it?

Wheat in a British Ale.

Has anybody got a recipe or know of one that is a British ale with some wheat in it. Or should I just make my own recipe, say from a Timothy Taylor Landlord and add a certain percentage of wheat. Where I got this idea from was when I was in the Lake district in Cumbria England, the bloke behind the ...

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