Recent content by Mchmss

Planning on brewing a five gallon batch of this next weekend and just halving the recipe. I have an American wheat beer of similar o.g. in the fermenter now with us 05 that will be ready for botteling, skipping a secondary. Any concerns with putting this one on top of that yeast cake? I haven't...

Thanks guys! That was a quick response!

I have ingredients for an all grain wheat beer that I ordered a month ago. The grains are already crushed. Had to reschedule my brew day and then got busy with a move. Do you think the grains are still ok or am I wasting my time trying to brew with month old crushed Grains that have been stored...

Where in Iowa are you located? Thanks

On second thought after reading some other posts and realizing that the refractometer SG reading needs to be converted after fermentation, My 1.033 is actually 1.015. Cam someone confirm I did this right? Thanks

The beer has been fermenting for almost 3 weeks now. Starting Gravity was 1.064. Last week a added an ounce of dry hops. I was planning on bottling this weekend but the SG is currently 1.033. From the reviews of the beer people were getting much lower FG's, like 1.017. There was 5-6 days of...

Thanks for the feedback. I'm 20 minutes into the boil and will be adding it to the carboy and skipping the secondary.

I'm brewing Northern Brewer's Dead Ringer IPA.

I am on my second extract brewing attempt. The first one turned out well. I skipped the secondary fermentation however and just left it longer in the primary. This second recipe calls for a secondary fermentation and the addition of some dry hops. I have a 6 Gallon Glass Carboy and a Pale...