Recent content by ThreeWiseMonkeys

Welcome. I was in your area a couple months back and thought it was a great beer town. I definitely drank quite a bit of Boulevard as I don't see it too often around Milwaukee. We also had good food / drink at The Beer Kitchen, McCoy's, and the Suacer. Good town. There is tons to learn from...

Agreed with Nordeast. There are a ton of good websites with brewing calculators on them. I like brewersfriend.com. Their calculator puts you at 4.6% as well

My first thought is if you used 2 different thermometers and if they are calibrated correctly. Second, did you measure the grain temp before you mashed in?

It's not real close to the airport, but The Map Room is probably the best beer bar that I've ever been to. Amazing selection. Google it for directions and website.

Before I got a wort chiller, I would fill the bathtub with cold water and dump a couple of ice cube trays in it. When I put the brew kettle into the water, I would gently stir it every 5-10 minutes with a sanitized spoon. I'm not an expert in thermodynamics, but it seemed to help bring the temp...

You could try giving the primary a good swirl after about a week of no advancement. Gently swirl the fermenter and see if some of the yeast will break back up and do their thing. Bringing up the temp to 67-70 won't do any harm either.

Gents, Is there a simple way of guesstimating what the pre-boil gravity was after you have taken a post boil sample. I had my head up my ass when I was brewing tonight, and didn't take a pre-boil reading. I ended up hitting my target gravity of 1.050, and I know that I boiled off about a...