Recent content by Muskietooth

Newbie question - I want to make a half batch of a recipe I found. The recipe is all grain and I want to do it through BIAB. 1.Can I half everything or do you not half the hop additions? 2. Do all grain portions change for BIAB? (Specifically for the mash).

Just realized I’m out of priming sugar and was going to bottle tonight. Can I use table sugar (cane)? From what I see I just use less? Brewing a Petite Saison with 1.041 starting gravity.

Let’s say I just wait the two weeks and don’t take measurements during fermentation as some of the advice in this thread suggests - do I then just wait until bubbles in the airlock are less than one every 2min? Or no bubbles whatsoever? How do I then know if fermentation is complete?

@RM-MN when you do measure do you put your hydrometer in your fermentor? Or pull a sample from a spigot?

Rookie question here. How do I best take a hydrometer reading? I’ve brewed a few kit batches and currently have 5 gallons in a bucket style fermentor. In the past I’ve only taken a hydrometer reading after boiling and then again at bottling. Reading more on here I feel like I should take...

I’m newish to brewing and have still been using extract kits for the past year. I have a kit I’m planning on making soon that is a tripel Belgium and it says it requires 3 months in a secondary stage. From what you mentioned above is that dated and I should keep it in primary the entire time?