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I see. I guess I should have known, I am a big fan of traditional kolcsh and I brew a lot of varieties. I have used 830 for my all my lagers until today, a great strain. My last kolsch used a wyeast 2575 limited edition but I think I like the white labs better. I have really been focusing on temp co...

Just got into lagering. On my third so far but have done hundreds of ales. I grow tired of not getting a super clean, refreshing beer so I lager. I have a small mini fridge and a fermentation bag cooler so any lager has to fit in a 3 gal carboy in the mini fridge. What makes the difference between t...

What is the yeast like? What have you tried it in? I haven't tried it yet. I am making a starter for it tonight for yeast that I captured from the bottles back in April or May- I made numerous starters to get a decent amount of yeast then so one more should get me where I need to be. I am making a ...

Not sure if anyone is still following this thread but if you are making a leinenkugel sunset wheat copy and you are confused on the yeast, just create a starter with the remnants of a few sunset wheats. They have sediment in them and that is what I did. I did not want to copy the beer, just wanted t...