Recent content by Big Al

Yeah Notty is great for these.

I did not. I did take the draw from the pump in my grainfather which pulls from bottom and my guess is that the sugar content was higher there before I started the boil. Only plausible thing I can come up with at this point.

Ok so I had a preboil volume of 6.9 Gallons and gravity of 1.058. Took that with a sample and old fashioned Hydrometer. Into the fermenter at 6 gallons and my tilt says it’s 1.056 OG. I’m stumped and yes I calibrated in water before I dropped it in. Any thoughts on where my issue is other...

Just curious if you were able to make this work? Also any pics would be appreciated. Im looking at retrofitting mine as well. Thanks!

No but it was just a safale American ale with a starter. Nothing fancy. I will say I used a lot of flaked oats and flaked corn in this bill only thing out of the ordinary really other than that just 9lbs of pilsner.

Oh man I'm glad I read this.. just experienced my first immaculate fermentation.. as a steelers fan I'm kinda pumped about that!

ps tons of trub and yeast on bottom of primary but as I pitched two starters not entirely surprising

I'm not sure if this will help but it's after I transferred it to another carboy and grabbed the measurement. Was gonna repitch after transfer until I got the gravity reading. The original carboy did not look much different than this. It was a new experimental beer that was an orange creme...

Has anyone ever had this happen? No foam, no Krausen just an OG of 1.051 and after pitching another round of yeast to no avail I was ready to give up and I took a gravity reading of 1.010 I mean no signs whatsoever and it’s in a 6 gal glass caribou.

I'll give this method a try today. I've got my old cooler so ill just draw it off into that so it's still somewhat heated. Thanks for the advice on this!

Rice hulls, my new kegerator and my grain billl for my IPA I’m brewing tomorrow.

Yeah my middle one is definitely my assistant brewmaster. My youngest “says she is helping”

So I’m trying to move my entire brewing process indoors and have a grainfather for most of the process. Bought a heat stick to supplement it because anyone who has ever tried to get a big beer to a boil on it knows it is tough on the American version. Anyway I’m thinking I should be able to...

So I did a lot of home brewing in early 2000s but after my second kid arrived found it was really hard to find the time to do it. I stashed all my equipment away though and broke it out 3 weeks ago to brew my first batch in over 10 years. I totally messed it up by miscalculating the mash...

I just finished their Ruination clone and it's spot on. I'm going to be trying the AB in a month or so. Let me know how it turns out! :mug: