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I wasn't sure what to go with. According to this calculator the amount of CO2 in the beer after cold crash is a guessing game. I figured since I cold crashed for so long a lot of CO2 could have been absorbed.

My worry is that 1.008 wasn't actually the FG, but it held for 3 days... The plastic in the water bottle is very thin so it is easy to detect pressure change in it. I guess I didn't take the raising of temps into account, that would cause some CO2 already absorbed in the beer to escape, but...

I added melted sugar to the bottom of the bucket before racking so it should be well mixed.

I bottled a Saison on Sunday. Before bottling it had gravity of 1.008, checked twice with a day in between. Went into cold crash about 2 weeks after brew day, stayed in cold crash about a week as well. I had about 5.5 gallons of beer, still cool from fridge, but rising temps toward 50 or so...

I haven't done any partial mash, but standard mash thickness is usually somewhere around 1.25qt/lb-2.0qt/lb. I mashed my saison at 148F for 90 minutes to get more fermentable sugars. Add the sugar and orange peel at flame out. Just my $0.02

Right, after boiling the coffee should be fine too. I'm doing this tomorrow for sure, 2-3 oz dry weight good amount of a lighter variety then?

Good tip.. I don't have espresso machine, I do have French presses and an airpress, only bold coffee's though. I'll have to pick some light roast up.. No problems just adding this into at any time in the fermentation process really? Anything to do to keep it sanitary? Thanks!

Heh, glad to know I'm not the only one that can't tell the difference between lb and oz ;) I plugged the numbers into brewers friend, got SRM 30.19.. porterish? I'm thinking going full coffee porter would be great.. What is the process of adding the beans? Do I just soak them in vodka first...

I decided to brew the BYO Bass clone recipe last Sunday. However, I misread the recipe and added 0.75 lb of roasted barley instead of 0.75 oz. I can't even blame brew-day drinking this time, didn't open one until half way through boil. I realized that it looked a lot darker than Bass (this...

I definitely made beer that day took a sample, gravity at 1.008 smells and tastes great. I also called Northern Brewer a few days after the bubbler incident, not expecting anything except their laughter, which I did receive. However they also went ahead and shipped me a new bubbler at no cost...

Today was my 3rd brewday, the first two were in the kitchen with LMG kits. This time I decided I had lurked here enough, so I obtained some equipment, found a recipie and ordered the ingredients. I added an extra lb of carared to that since I didn't think I'd get 91% efficiency! I also added a...