Due to popular demand, the following White Labs varieties, which used to be special order only, will now be stocked regularly by HomeBrew4Less.com:WLP645 Brettanomyces ClausseniiWLP650 Brettanomyces BruxellensisWLP653 Brettanomyces LambicusWLP655 Belgian Sour Mix 1WLP677 Lactobabillus Bacteria
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The following Platinum Yeast Strains will be available the second week of May through the end of June 2011, so put your orders now so we can get enough initial stockWLP410 Belgian Wit II Ale YeastWLP510 Belgian Bastogne Ale YeastWLP670 American Farmhouse Blend
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The Original Carboy Cleaner now available at homebrew4less.comDear Fellow Homebrewer, Like you, I have struggled numerous times cleaning the leftover sediment out of my glass carboys. Getting all of the sediment out without wasting gallons of water
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18 Apr by Blaine in
Yeast
I started brewing in the 1980’s, which was the modern equivalent of the wild west days of home brewing. We simply did not have either the technical knowledge or access to the high quality ingredients that brewers have today. Yeast, in particular, was one ingredient
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If you look at the instructions in your wine kit (and please, do), they will likely instruct you to sprinkle your packet of yeast directly on to the must. Yet if you read the yeast package (and many winemaking textbooks) they recommend rehydrating the yeast. If the objective is to
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LIQUOR QUIK ACCELEVIN K.C.2 AcceleVIN™ K.C.2. contains a special blend of selected wine yeast mixed with 3 different nutrient salts. When added with the standard 5g yeast sachet contained in most wine kit add-packs, will reduce the fermentation time from
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WLP072 French Ale Yeast: Biere de Garde- Artisanal Brewery Version Recipe (Courtesy of “Farmhouse Ales,” Classic Beer Styles Series)
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25 Oct by Blaine in
Yeast
Getting your homemade beer off to a good start Homebrew Equipment needed for a Yeast Starter: - 1 "growler" or large 22 oz bottle - soup pot with a lid - sanitizer - airlock and stopper that fits your growler or bottle - measuring cup - yeast - scissors or knife if you have
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Rather than washing the stone in chlorine solution, soak the stone for a few hours in vodka. These stones seem to hold chlorine rather well, as a tank of dead fish proved a few years back. I probably get a little alcohol in the wort, but I avoid any
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The Yeast Starter A yeast starter is a method of preparing your yeast for fermentation by introducing your yeast to a small amount of wort before fermentation in order to encourage yeast cell multiplication to create an optimum amount of healty, ready-to-go yeast
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