Brewing yeast and fermentation Chris Boulton, David Quain
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Mar 2, 2012 - I obtained some interesting results and some great comments from Garrett Oliver, Brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery. Oct 21, 2013 - What are the Kinds of Brewer's Yeast? Additional information can also be found in Dr. Dec 28, 2013 - My wife bought me a Brooklyn Brewshop Everyday IPA ingredients (grain, hops, yeast) kit for Secular Holiday Gift Giving Day, so as to get me off my ass and brewing instead of just talking about it. Also known as ale yeast, top-fermenting yeast got its name from how they rise to the surface during fermentation that creates a very thick, rich yeast head. But if you see no additional activity, I suggest doing what ac22rush said wait for a full two week period after the date that the fermentation started, then check your gravity over a couple days to see if it stays the same, and is close to your recipe's expected final gravity. Apr 20, 2014 - The second and third beers were more acidic: due to the lack of a yeast starter, wild yeast and bacteria had a greater chance to influence fermentation. The other end goes into the carboy. Sep 14, 2009 - The siphoning tube goes all the way to the bottom of the fermentation bucket, and it has a special cap to prevent the yeast sludge from being siphoned along with the beer. May 7, 2014 - [Information for this post comes mainly from the Oklahoma University "Chemistry of Beer" MOOC, Fermentation unit, posted 4 Apr 2014. Yeast from the old batch to the new. Families in Scandinavia once passed down prized beer-brewing sticks that were used to stir the wort and magically induce fermentationby introducing yeast to each new batch of beer.