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what was the easiset way to mix. will it oxidize if i just shake the carboy until my hand falls off?

thanks for the help. So my og reading of 1.052 is probably bogus and since it was mainly extract I can be pretty safe ASSuming it was around a 1.070

I brewed it a week ago today. It was the Dogfish Head 60 min clone with one pack of Nottingham dry yeast. The original OG reading I took was a 1.052. Took a reading today and it was 1.018

Ok. So I have realized that I did not aerate my wort enough before pitching my yeast (since OG was much less than it should have been). However, being a newb I just thought that was what it was supposed to be until I read some more. How much will this screw up my brew and affect the FG? thanks

I must not have mixed it up enough (oh well) i will know next time. I am assuming it will not qffect the beer to much since i still have to transfer again Is there an easy way to mix it up rather than picking up a 5 gall carboy and swishing around?

temp was right at 72D when i took the reading. noticed when i put the hydrometer in water it looked to be about 1.04. that still would not get me to the expected obg of 1.07 i was shooting for. guess will just have to drink in a few weeks and see how i feel

I cooled everythin down and transferred the wort to my carboy and then I had to add some water to bring my final volume to 5 gallons. Swished this around and then poured some out into a measuring cup and poured this into the hydrometer flask. hydrometer was floating so i know i had plenty of...

ok just brewed the extract version of this today and I only got a OG 1.052. I am new to brewing so any help would be great. Is there anything I could add to boost this up next time?

what is cold crashing?

when dry hopping is it ok to just dump the hops into the already fermented beer without a bag (also using leafs instead of pellets). then just being careful when transfer to bottling bucket? or will this screw it up with a bunch of hops in the beer?

question: I used star san to clean my glass carboy, however there are still a ton of bubbles in it. it it ok to put the wort in or do i need to completely get all of the bubbles out thanks

ok i forgot to ask and then i am finished... I only have the one carboy will it screw everything up if i do not transfer to a secondary and just leave everything in the primary. sorry for being an idiot just really nervous

one last thing... when steeping the grains should i get the water to the proper temp before adding the grains or leave them in frm teh beginning thanks

great thanks!! So i could just wait the est 2 weeks to be sure the fermentation is complete and then add the hops in the same fermenter and that would be fine then transfer a week or so later to bottling bucket. would i need to agitate the beer after adding dry hops to make sure they are...

Dumb question. New to brewing, however was wondering after my primar fermentation is complete can i dry hop in my bottling bucket (i do not have another carboy to dry hop in) thanks