Pitching Rate Split Batch

So while the Helles came out good it grew fruity over time. I think that's because as it cleaned up the esters became easier to detect. I have no homebrew club here so I get feedback when I can. I think I should enter some competitions to simply to get feedback from the judges. I'll look into that. Anyway I digress. I went to The Bearded Brewer in Quartz Hill to get grain and I brought the Helles for feedback. He went to all kinds of beer school. The degrees are on the wall when you walk in. He agreed with the ester character and it got me thinking about how I can change my process to get rid of that flaw. One thing I think I'm going to need is to pitch more yeast. So that's what this split batch will be today. We will make EKA IV and split the batch into two fermenters. In one we will pitch one vial of WLP001 and the other we will pitch two vials of WLP001.

BTW, that guy at The Bearded Brewer is super cool. I've been to some shops where the workers are assholes. This is nicest guy to ever own a brew shop. I think he was a carpenter in his previous life and it shows in the shop. Beautiful hardwood floors. Plus he has a sweet beard. He looks like a lost child of one of the ZZ Top boys.

The recipe and water is going to be that same as EKA IV. I won't bother to capture it here. The only difference is the yeast.
WLP001 x1 and x2 - Date = 10-10-13 - Lot number = PSICEL-44-2


Ok. All done for the day. It was a very ho hum brew day. I brewed by myself. The OG is 1.052. Ellie is with her sister in LA. I think Claresta is in LA too. I didn't invite Kevin or Pooley because I'm trying to drink a little less.

One small thing that did come up was that I remembered that there is no way I'm going to fit two fermenters in the current chest freezer. As luck would have it, a new chest freezer was sitting in the garage so I pulled it out of its box and it now houses the two fermenters. I also put on my other sticky from Christmas a while back. Here's some pics: