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Great catch! I just plugged this all in beer smith and brewers friend and it indeed looks like I'm at about 5.5%! That is awesome news. I had no idea refractometers needed that adjustment. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

We'll that would mean my beer is fully fermented in all 4 cases. What website are you using? That is good news, now I just don't know why the 2nd and 3rd batches didn't carb up properly. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Yes I am using a refractometer. Is that bad? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Thanks for the input guys. I think I'm going to invest in one of those wine degasers and give that a shot.

So aerating could be the issue. The first three were all bottle conditioned and were all an OG of about 1.052. The stout carbed up fine and was a little on the sweet side but not overwhelming. The 2nd and 3rd batches were also bottle conditioned and they did not carb up enough. They did a little...

So my last 4 batches have all stalled fermenting at about 1.025. The first was an Irish stout extract kit with a wyeast Irish stout yeast. Second was a cream ale extract kit, third an all grain pale ale, and fourth a nut brown extract kit all 3 with dry safale US-05. The stout was fermented...

I have for sale a like new (1 time use) 10 G Tall Boy Brew Kettle with Blichman Brewmometer and Stainless Steel Ball Valve and Barb Fitting. This is heavy duty Kettle and costs about $215 new from Midwest Supplies with shipping. The only reason I'm getting rid of this is because this is so heavy...

Just like Shaky I made one from a 25ft coil of 3/8" copper, some vinyl tubing and hose fittings from Home Depot for around $20-$25 and it looks exatly like a $60 one from the HBS and works great.

If you want to start looking at adding different things to existing recipes and kits you can plug them into a program like Beersmith and then add what you want to see how it will effect ABV, Color, IBUs etc.

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Thanks! Just couldn't believe how quickly that happened, any risk of cleaning with pbw? I know it's not like copper just wanted to make sure.

So I finished my heat stick and covered it with some DAP food safe silicone to be safe, definitely helped dramatically in how fast I could heat 7 gallons of water in my 10 gallon kettle on the electric stove, 56*F to 208*F in about 80 min. Problem is it topped out at 208-210 and wouldn't boil...

Awesome. Thanks for sharing Denny. Thats not far from me at all so we'll be out when the time comes! Good luck.

DFoster, I know your post about your brewpub is almost two years old but did you ever get it going? I'm in St. Louis and would love to come check it out if your close.

Thanks for the feedback so far!