Recent content by Daniel B

Very long time, no post..... The brewers friend recipe is mine. I put all those values in as grain by accident for those fermentables (i.e. 9lbs munich malt extract). I didn't realize those were grain ingredients at the time (the search is a bit wonky) so now it's up-to-date. Honestly sorry...

Got it. Oxidizing is no good so I will avoid that. If/when this happens again, I will investigate this. See below. This was an extract recipe, see the link in the OP. I now have a heating wrap plugged into the hot side of my InkBird. The cold side is a chest freezer in which the fermenter...

Update: Measured just now, still exactly 1.050. I measured with a hydrometer and a digital refractometer corrected for the alcohol. No change since the OP. The beer is also pretty sweet still. I'm still considering giving a new batch of yeast a go. Don't think that means I'm disregarding...

I'll definitely wait for no action to bottle. Maybe There's been a bit of bubbles around the hose in the sanitizer each time I check, so maybe? I just shifted the fermenter a little to clean up some condensation pooling in the freezer so maybe the tilt will un-tilt. If not I'll take a real...

I've made a batch of "Winter Bock" which I based on a simple extract recipe kit. Everything went well and all the sugar I dumped in there did its job in terms of OG. The yeast I used was two slap-packs of Wyeast 1007 in one can of Propper Starter and water for 24 hours on a stir plate...

So we tried the beer last weekend and it was good, well carbonated after 2 weeks of sitting in the bottle. Wanted to close out this thread's topic with the results: Final Gravity during bottling was 1.010, so based on the 1.059 from @doug293cz (and the 1.055 estimated on the kit), it's...

@doug293cz, you've singlehandedly generated multiple entries in my browser bookmarks! ‍:bow: Also, I did notice a lot of fluctuation in the volume of the wort during boiling. Between the loss to the steeped grains (which, as you say, would be a lot more for several pounds of mash) and the loss...

Hadn't considered not mixing it well as the potential cause. That's actually pretty obvious now that I think about it. I was being paranoid about sanitation and topping up with the lid on (from a sanitary vessel through the stopper hole). I have a generous friend with a spare chiller, so I'll...

So yesterday was brew day for this kit and I am trying to figure out if I did something wrong (hopefully, what exactly it was) and if my yeast needs more friends to get the job done. Hitch number 1: I read the instructions and the recipe sheet several times and there's still one ambiguity...