Recent content by W0rthog

Try a Christmas Tree farm.

toss it, grain is too cheap to burn a brew day. My free advice [emoji3]

I'm a Bavarian Hefe fan. My ultimate example is Schneider Weisse. (calibration) My experiments and regiment follows. My water is pretty void of key compounds. Close to distilled. After brewing many batches, I have gravitated to Dunkel Weise and they have came out well. I think the crystal...

Don't run hops through the chiller unfiltered. Get a filter to prevent hops from passing through the chiller. Otherwise you may have difficulties sanitizing later. I accidentally had hops pass through my chiller and it took a long time to try and flush the hops out and never got them all...

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I throw in a pound, because they're cheap.

Did you plant it upside down?

I would let it ride or perhaps choose a yeast that has better attenuation to chew through the rest.

How did you aerate the wort?

As for oxygen, i hit all my beers with a 5 min dose of pure oxygen using a .5 or .2 stone (can't remember the size)

At a calculated 77.4% attenuation, I'd say you got what you could from this yeast. Max attenuation being 78%. Also, according to the guidelines, 80 degrees may be a little to warm for that yeast. My advice is to try and hit your target OG by diluting in order bring it down, therefore you...

What yeast did you use? You got about 77.4% attenuation. Did you liquify the cane sugar before adding to the fermentor?

what was the gravity when you bottled?

Sounds like to me you need to invest in a few books. Good luck

Rogue Farms seems pretty cool to visit. I think they even have overnight accomodations. http://www.rogue.com/roguefarms/