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I hear you about pitching more yeast except (1) I have no yeast packets on hand (I would need to buy), and (2) when do I stop throwing good money after bad?

I should've included in last night's post that I tested again last night with my hydrometer and refractometer. Both still reading 1053. There is literally nothing going on with sediment and (probably) yeast dropping out. I'm new to the refractometer, which is why I'm also using the...

Today is day 10 and nothing is happening. Yesterday I siphoned into a carboy using the white doohickey from my mash/lauter tun at the end of the hose just inside the mouth of the carboy. Aerated it pretty good. Unfortunately nothing. Marguay - I don't have the packaging anymore for either yet...

Thanks everyone for the advice. It's good to know that I've been doing the right things. I think I will wait another 2 days and see what happens. If there is no or minimal improvement I'll transfer to a carboy and aerate the hell out of it.

Dry pitched at 68. I thought of this too.

I pitched at 68 and right now its 69. As mentioned in another reply, my house ranges from 62-70 and it is not kept in the basement. I took my OG reading after topping off. (I boiled 5 gallons of wort and separately boiled 2 gallons for top off, of which I only needed 1 gallon.) I aerated...

Fermenting has been between 62-70 (house temperature). Being in NJ, I've kept in upstairs rather my basement, which is cooler. I also have a blanket draped on. It's not steady but the range is constant.

I'm having problems with fermentation starting on an extract batch and hope someone here can help. I'm relatively new to brewing, having done only 4 all-grain 1 gallon batches. I upscaled my equipment and received a free pale ale extract kit. I never brewed extract, nor plan to, but I figured...

Bottled this weekend. Tasted fine but a bit thin so I'll just give it some time.

Thanks for the confirmation. Nothing to lose but I didn't want to mix a potentially spoiled right carboy with the left at bottling time. I guess tasting it will let me know.

My concern is that I see yeast rafts on the right but not left. Of course it didn't dawn on me that it would finish quick. Thanks for feedback.

New-ish homebrewer here with a quick question. In the attached photo does the carboy on the right look ok, specifically the surface? It doesn't look like the carboy on the left and looks 'off' to me. BACKGROUND I recently brewed a hefeweizen (1 gallon trial of a new recipe) and...