Recent content by Mattf15004

I recently made a west coast ipa which i scorched the grains on the botton of the pot also. It gave off an unfortunate burnt flavor but I caught the burning shortly after it started and was able to stir more thoroughly my problem was I put all of migraines in a green bag and submerged it...

So I did move the wort into a secondary fermenter because I've had issues in the past of sediments getting into the final product and in doing so I tested the gravity again and it was just slightly lower. I also tasted the wort again and this time I could taste a significant difference, it now...

Great, thanks so much for all the feedback.

Any other advice, i plan to put into secondary fermrnter with dry hop in a less than a week, which will be third week of fermentation, then with 10 days of a 2 week secondary initiating a cold crash by filling my cooler surrounding glass carboys with ice

Brew shop guy sold me a bag which burned at the bottom of the pot and broke very quickly, i checked the readings immediately after the wort was chilled to 75 dgrees.

Also if it was about 1.045 why was it reading 1.022 ish. Im confused

Anything else i can do. It seems like ill just resume as normal. Wait until the added starter stops fermenting for three days then secondary fermenter, then bottle and age. Shall i add sugar when bottling for carbonation/conditioning

Now the water was boiling but not a vigorous boil that would make even a little bit of bubbles more just a light roll. Also the thermometer is a long stick thermometer that was reading temp from the bottom if that makes a difference. I added pics from when i was making it. The two hydrometer...

I steeped at 155 for about 70 min then raised the temp to 175. I then strained the grains and brought to a boil but had a difficult time boiling the wort so this took a long time. I then added hops at my checkpoints and boiled for about 75 min because the slow boil reaching. I then dropped the...

I did not plan it, i steeped 4 gallons with grains and sparged with 1 gallon. I then boiled all 5 gallons for 1 hour and 10 min because i had troubles getting the whole pot up to temp since it was stove top. It did boil but not as vigorous as it should. I believe i had two problems. I should...

I boiled about 4 gallons and one gallon sparge. Then added water to 5 gal. This was my first attempt at an all grain. I did not boil the grains just the wort after removing grains

I had quite an issue getting my wort to boil. The temperature said it was over 220 but i couldnt get a vigorous rolling boil, this could be my problem. I was trying to boil a five gallon mash on a stovetop.

I thought i would have a larger batch of wort since i boiled 4 gallons and had a 1 gallon sparge. Today i did make a starter like my brew shop mentioned with the champagne yeast, nutrient, and 1 cup dme. I guess it couldnt hurt. I am getting splotches of bubbles now and some gas pushing throught...

I attached the recipe i used

Ok guys i called my local brew shop and we figured out that i may have also added too much water as my starting gravity was 1.025. I added about 50% water up to 5 gallons. My gravity is now 1.010 after two weeks. He told me to make a starter with some dme i had lying around ad some champagne...