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• Posted in thread: First Flanders - The plan and questions on 04-11-2012 at 04:34 PM
  Traditionally flanders are racked off their yeast cakes, lambics are not. Leave it on the the
  cake for 2 months or so and then rack off.I guess I will just use the cakes for my next batch
  which will b...

• Posted in thread: First Flanders - The plan and questions on 04-11-2012 at 12:40 AM
  I did 10 gallons of flanders red using Roeselare WLP-550. in 2 different glass carboysIs there
  a need to transfer to secondary? I was planning on adding the oak chips to my primary after
  about 3 weeks...

• Posted in thread: Sierra nevada torpedo clone on 06-16-2011 at 01:48 PM
  Has anyone played around with adding the DME late in the boil, or adding , say, half at the
  start and the rest near the end? I'm new to late extract additions and was curious if it would
  have any effe...

• Posted in thread: first recipe....going big with imperial IPA on 05-12-2011 at 08:10 PM
  Personally I would use 5-7 oz of hops for dry hopping

• Posted in thread: Any brew-software for Android? on 04-06-2011 at 05:54 PM
  this app is great, but while making a recipe i cannot delete an ingredient once it is already
  in the recipe, or change the quantities?

• Posted in thread: Constantly finishing under my FG on 02-10-2011 at 05:24 PM
  Yeah, I hate to ask what might be very obvious... but you're correcting the SG to your
  hydrometer's calibrated temperature, right?well it's calibrated at 64 degmy initial readings
  are taked at 65-70 d...

• Posted in thread: Constantly finishing under my FG on 02-10-2011 at 05:13 PM
  I do check SG but I do not compensate for Temp..... since I chill my wort to 78 and then add
  another 2.5 gallons of 65deg water i figure it's around 70.when I check my SG I pour a sample
  into a plasti...

• Posted in thread: Constantly finishing under my FG on 02-10-2011 at 04:23 PM
  Check hydrometer calibration. 1.000 in distilled water @ 60 degrees. You may also want to
  calibrate to multiple points. Check this BYO articleI have done so, and all 3 of mine are dead
  on. I have talk...

• Posted in thread: Constantly finishing under my FG on 02-10-2011 at 03:09 PM
  Well, it sounds like you are getting an accurate reading. And most people get a higher FG on
  extract beers than they like, so if'n I were you, I'd be happy and just plan the OG to account
  for a lower ...

• Posted in thread: Constantly finishing under my FG on 02-10-2011 at 03:04 PM
  Which tool do you use to predict your FG?beersmith, and my local homebrew also works it up for
  me when i give him the recipe