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[positiveContact]

NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

 

I hope it comes back

[denny]

You can use mrmalty in the meantime

[3rd party JKor]

Beers everywhere are bein underpitched tonight. Woe be to the home brewer who mashed in tonight!

[positiveContact]

You can use mrmalty in the meantime

I'm partial to kai's stir plate calculation. Today is just a step up so as long as I can back calculate what I grew later I'm good.

[djinkc]

I'm partial to kai's stir plate calculation. Today is just a step up so as long as I can back calculate what I grew later I'm good.

 

I get it.  After a while though you just don't bother.  I know what works here almost all of the time.   Most of the data you feed those calculators is just a guess anyway.

[johnpreuss]

I get it.  After a while though you just don't bother.  I know what works here almost all of the time.   Most of the data you feed those calculators is just a guess anyway.

This!

[positiveContact]

I get it.  After a while though you just don't bother.  I know what works here almost all of the time.   Most of the data you feed those calculators is just a guess anyway.

 

i know it's an estimate but it puts me in relatively the same place in relation to gravity.  if i found that i thought that using yeastcalc i was over or under pitching i'd offset myself based on that but so far it seems to be somewhere in range so if it aint broke i won't go ahead and break it myself.

[djinkc]

You worry to much, really.  Relax, don't worry, have a homebrew.

[positiveContact]

You worry to much, really.  Relax, don't worry, have a homebrew.

 

i figure this is part of why most of my beer comes out pretty good.

[BlKtRe]

I've never felt the need to use a yeast calc.

Edited by BlKtRe, 25 January 2014 - 08:44 PM.

[positiveContact]

if i didn't use yeastcalc or something similar i'd just be trying to do some kind of estimate in my head.  the estimate would never be as easy as just punching the numbers in and following the estimate that the calculator spits out at me.

 

do you guys just make the same size starter all the time or do you make bigger or smaller starters based on the beer?

[positiveContact]

also yeastcalc.com is still down!!! 

[3rd party JKor]

I always use Mr. Malty.  I'm sure if I just made a big starter every time my beers would be great, but it's nice to have a reference.  As always, what is 'necessary' is dependent on what your goals are.  It's far from necessary to pitch at 75MM cells/mL-°P on every batch to get great beer, but if you do it you take out one variable if you're trying to optimize your brewing.

[3rd party JKor]

also yeastcalc.com is still down!!! 

 

 

Clearly what you need to do when it comes back up is put in every possible permutation, record the results and reverse engineer the calculator on your own. 

 

(I've considered doing it with the Mr. Malty calculator.  )

[positiveContact]

i think brewers friend has the same yeast calculator.  i'm not sure though...

[HVB]

Wait .. you use yeast?

[armagh]

I've never felt the need to use a yeast calc.

This.

[denny]

This.

 

I use mrmalty sometimes, but mainly I know that if I make a 2-3 qt. starter (depending on the OG of the beer) I'll be fine.

[armagh]

I use mrmalty sometimes, but mainly I know that if I make a 2-3 qt. starter (depending on the OG of the beer) I'll be fine.

And this.

[BlKtRe]

I use mrmalty sometimes, but mainly I know that if I make a 2-3 qt. starter (depending on the OG of the beer) I'll be fine.

Yup. Figured this out before yeast calcs were around.