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Yeah, I'm going back and forth between doing a secondary or skipping it. What I was envisioning was transferring via gravity (spigot + tubing) carefully in the glass fermenters, roughly 2.5 gallons of the batch, and bottling the remaining 2.5 gallons. The added benefit would be that I could...

To be fair, they do mention that the secondary is optional, in the "Minimum requirement" section: "A 5 gallon glass carboy, with bung and airlock, to use as a secondary fermenter - If you do not have a secondary fermenter you may skip the secondary fermentation and add an additional week to...

Steps 17-19 in the attached PDF file

Hi, one of the 5-gallon recipe I have calls for a secondary fermentation in a different vessel, with dry hoping. As I don't have a 5-gallon glass vessel (looks like plastic is not recommended because of O2 permeability), I was thinking I'd use the 2 1-gallon glass fermenters I have. In terms of...

I asked them what their yeasts were, and the answer is that the "english ale" is S-04, "american ale" is S-05, and "wheat ale" is wb-06. Also they say they have it repacked for them in smaller size, meaning at the factory. Which is probably why they're doing it for the most common yeasts (ie...

Thanks all for your help. I'll keep that issue in mind and see if it ever happens again with another kit in the future

I used the pack that comes with the kit, it's the us-05 that Northern Brewer has reconditioned in smaller quantities for 1-gallon batches (4-5 grams?). Pack was not opened before.

It's been my (short) experience that the SafAle were pretty fast to get going and would produce foam and bubbles within 12 hours, which is why I got worried after almost 48 hours. Now I even wonder if I forgot to pitch the yeast, lol :)

Just checked, and now I can see a white thin layer of foam forming at the surface, and the airlock releasing bubbles

The original yeast is a SafAle 05 and the ambient temperature is between 65 and 66. I have used that strain before at those temperatures, but never had any issues

Hello, the weirdest thing happened for my 8th batch, a Black IPA 1-gallon kit. Everything went almost exactly as for all previous batches. I boiled the wort, added fermentable and hops. I cooled the wort, sanitized everything with 1-step and star san, siphoned the wort into my fermenter...

This is an excellent point. That might explain why my hot samples always have a higher gravity than expected. Thanks, I've never realized that

Are you referring to the math used in that kind of calculator? https://www.brewersfriend.com/ibu-calculator/

Hi, I'm reading about apparent attenuation and I was curious about the theory behind it. Let's say I'm brewing a beer with an OG of 1.076, fermenting it with a dry yeast that has an apparent attenuation of 68-72%. Does that mean that after fermentation, the yeast will have converted between 68...

Doing some research on the manufacturer website, I found this piece of advice confirming aeration is not needed with direct pitching dry yeast. Source: Tips And Tricks - English (page 22)