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I figured that it was done fermenting since it had been going for 3 weeks and I wasn't seeing any airlock activity. However, I did have my room cold for fermentation (high 50s, low 60s). Maybe my yeast went dorment and now are starting up again? Should I bring the temperature back up?

I toss in 1 oz of hops the other day into my primary fermenting carboy. My beer has been in the carboy for a little over 3 weeks now. I checked on the beer the next day and saw activity in the airlock(which had previously stopped). Here are the before adding the hops and after pictures of my...

So I poured in my water/LME mix and decide to add some dry yeast Safale 04 just to get things going again. There is just a pile of the yeast on top of the Krausen ... It does look like the yeast is already starting to go. It was a pack of dry yeast I opened about 3 days ago that I kept in the...

My biggest reason was that I forgot to add more malt extract during the boil... alcohol will be low and flavor will be off. I am going to boil some extra and just pour it in. Hopefully it will all work out! Thank you everyone :mug:

So the LME can just go straight into the primary? I think I should dissolve it in a little water so it doesnt just sink to the bottom

An Additional Question! Can I boil LME in water for 60 minutes, cool that and then pour that into my carboy instead of boiling sugar?

Hey All, I want to add a little bit of sugar to my carboy to increase the alcohol ( I changed my recipe last minute while boiling the wert and realized I forgot to put in more malt/sugar to increase alcohol) I pitched my yeast a little over 48 hours (as of right now). My airlock started...

It looks like you have a ton of stuff that settled to the bottom / is still in suspension. That seems like more stuff then I have ever seen in my carboy before. What kind of beer /yeast?

What I have done here is put the carboy in a bucket of cold water for when I am fermenting. This is a 3gal glass carboy in a home depot paint bucket. I have a fan blowing on the bucket and will add ice as necessary

So your saying you got hops/general crap from the boil into your primary then pitched the yeast as normal? If so, then no worries. I do this every time I brew.

Agreed. Sanitize some tubing, sanitize a two liter soda bottle and fill the soda bottle with water. Stick tubing into airlock/bung and run the rest of the tubing into the water of the 2 liter bottle.

Agreed that it is hard to say. Can you take some more pictures and really describe what you see? Yeast rising to the top is very common and often leads people to believe that they have an infection.

you pitch it into your beer :ban:

If it was me, I would follow this schedule: 2 weeks in Secondary, then Dry hop for 5 days, then Cold Crash for 4 days, then BOTTLE You were probably better off keeping it in the primary for 3-4 weeks then racking it to secondary and dry hopping right away. Overall, its better to let the...

Looks delicious to me! Very hoppy indeed. You dry hopping too?

Since I am only 21 and currently attending college, I have only experienced so much "high quality" beer. The best one I have had that comes to mind is the Lagunitas "A Little Sumpin' Sumpin' Ale" I was learning how to brew for the first time with my uncle and he poured a few glasses of...

Fermentation does not seem too vigorous so I am assuming it is not quite 10 degrees above my room temp. I will go purchase a little stick on thermometer though just to be sure.

haha thanks. Yea I just want to cold crash to get as much out of suspension so it has a real clean taste as well.

Do you think I should let it ferment for its normal time of say 3-4 weeks, then cold crash?

Using Safale US-05. Sorry should have mentioned that