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Is there any possibility that what is left is all unfermentable? Is it ok to just put it in the secondary and wait it out while maintaining a higher temperature? Any suggestions?

The temp was about 65 before I raised it. It got up to 68 for that 4th week. I swirled it and got it aerated right after I pitched, but I was out of town for the next 2 weeks. After the third week I stirred it vigorously when I repitched .

This has been my first attempt at a high gravity beer. The brewing process went smoothly but after 4 weeks my gravity has only dropped to 1.040. The OG was 1.090. I pitched with with Irish Ale yeast and a Nottingham Ale Dry yeast because of the high OG. I at 3 weeks it was 1.042 and I added...

165. When you drink warm beer from the secondary and like it.

Hey Chris_dog, how did your SN Clone turn out. I just made one recently. It came out a lot more hoppy, which I am not unhappy about, but I was curious how much and what you dry hopped with. I used .75 oz of cascade for two weeks.

Yup that is the one I used...for the most part. The LHBS was out of Warrior hops so I used Magnum and of course I played with the grain bill some to fit my needs. The BYO recommended using 60L crystal but with that the color would have come out a bit light. I had a half pound of 120L laying...

After the boil I gave it a taste. Besides tasting delicious:ban: I would never have been able to pick out the apricot flavor if I didn't already know it was there. So unless it really comes through after fermentation, I think I'm good.

I feel like I am getting the hang of this. I knocked out a Magic Hat #9 clone last night in about 4.5 hrs. Target gravity was 1.047, I hit 1.050 I use my first round of self frozen yeast with a starter and it worked beautifully. I bought my first bulk purchase of grains, 55 lbs of...

I have used B-brite for a year now for sanitizing and have had no problems.

Magic Hat #9 uses an apricot puree in it. It is not an IPA but close to what you might be going for.

After looking up the yeast profiles. I think 3333 will do the trick. I have used 3068 before and I don't think that would work well for what I am going for. I am not really sure why I went with 1010 in the first place...seemed like a good idea at the time. I think the "tangyness" as I...

I have it kegged and force carbonated at around 2.4 volumes. Wouldn't this be high enough?

I tried a Magic Hat Circus Boy Hefe Clone with the following recipe. I did a side by side comparison yesterday and I wasn't close. Well is wasn't that bad, but significantly off. I used 7 lbs wheat malt 7 lbs 2-row (been having efficiency problems, thats why the high grain bill)...

I've done 14 days in the 2ndary with 1.75 ounces of whole leaf Cascade. It was the best beer I have made yet.

Update... I brewed a nut brown ale this weekend and got 75% efficiency. This was the first time using my Barley Crusher. I hooked it up to a motor and I am getting just under 500 rpms out of it. Might be a little much, but it appears that it did the job. Thanks again everyone for the...