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Previous Thread So I got the refractometer out, cleaned up some pipettes and took a few samples today. All of the samples ranged from 1.018 to 1.021. (I started with 1.020 wort) so I'm a little confused. They have been incubating at 83F for just under a week, and shaking once or twice per...

My brain is having a hard time picturing how both of these factors play together. Does a yeast really stop fermenting after it's attenuation percentage, even if its under it's alcohol tolerance? Say we have a yeast that has an 80% attenuation, and alcohol tolerance of 10%. If I mix up some...

For the past couple weeks I've been diving headfirst into this wild yeast world. I started off by collecting 12 samples of flowers or pine needles etc.. from around my yard and placing them in test tubes with 1.020 wort. . After just a couple days Tube #5 was churning with vigorous...

I've been playing around with building a yeast lab, and collected 12 samples from my yard and dropped them into a test tube of plain 1.020 wort. Some started fermenting within a couple days, other started vigorous fermentation within a week or so. However, when I started looking at samples...

So I was all set to brew my 3rd and 4th batches of Centennial Blonde. I had just kegged the previous 2 batches. (Carbonated 20oz with the carbonator cap, and it was delightful) So I am all set to repitch the slurry for these ones. However, I added all my hops in the first batch. So the...

So today I started the transformation of my chest freezer. I started off by removing the lid, and laying out a frame of 2x2 boards for the internal frame. The back is one solid sheet of 1 inch pine with double thickness at the top and bottom for attaching the hinges, and the regulators...

I got all the ingredients to brew 5 gallons of Left Hand Milk Stout Clone, and am heating up my strike water as I type. Unfortunately LHBS was (unusually) out of US-05. So I bought 2 vials of WLP001 instead. Question is, should I just warm up to pitching temp, shake well and dump both in...

Just got my first water test results back. I've been studying up on water chemistry the past few days, but would really appreciate some basic comments on these results. Thank you! -------- pH 7.3 Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Est, ppm 297 Electrical Conductivity, mmho/cm 0.50...

I recently set up my kegging system, and I thought it would be a good idea to brew something very low in alcohol because I knew I would want to be pouring something out of my kegs almost constantly while the excitement of the new system is dominating my mind. So, the brew I chose was this...

Hello everyone, I am a "kinda" new brewer with a half a dozen batches or so under my belt. I got into brewing after college. I graduated from The Culinary Institute of America, which gave be a huge head start as far as familiarity with sanitation, processes, and so forth. There were a lot of...