{"id":383,"date":"2011-12-03T22:12:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T02:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2011-12-03T22:12:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T02:12:37","slug":"yeast-article-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Yeast article review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the December 2011 issue of Brew Your Own, Brooklyn Brewmaster Garrett  Oliver points out that; &#8220;&#8230; lots of homebrewers don&#8217;t begin with  nearly enough of a healthy population of yeast to properly start  fermentation.\u00a0 And when the yeast is struggling, it gives off a lot of  estery [fruity] profiles, which is a common flaw in homebrews.\u00a0 I would  say that the number one fault in homebrews is poor fermentation&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 The  article mentions that Oliver\u00a0has tasted and judged many, many  homebrews.\u00a0 &#8220;If you pitch your yeast and don&#8217;t see any signs of  fermentation until 24 hours later, you haven&#8217;t pitched enough yeast, or  it&#8217;s not as healthy as it should be.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0The article goes on to state  that; &#8220;Oliver advocates making a yeast starter the day before brewing,  which can easily provide double the yeast population, or harvesting  yeast from a batch of homebrew.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0An inadequate pitching rate of yeast  can also\u00a0result in an incomplete fermentation, leaving that &#8220;malt  extract&#8221; flavor\u00a0finish in a batch of beer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the December 2011 issue of Brew Your Own, Brooklyn Brewmaster Garrett Oliver points out that; &#8220;&#8230; lots of homebrewers don&#8217;t begin with nearly enough of a healthy population of yeast to properly start fermentation.\u00a0 And when the yeast is struggling, it gives off a lot of estery [fruity] profiles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}