Recent content by Brewnoob6120

I'm taking Yooper's advice and waiting a few days and I will check it again, on another note i'm brewing a batch of AG Scottish Ale and i'm going about it a little different. I'm going to get a pre-boil gravity and a post boil also, and I do understand now that alot of the numbers that Beersmith...

ok, I think it's starting to sink in, the attenuation of the yeast is important to know because it gives you a set of guidelines to work from, and the only way to know if it is done fermenting is when the SG becomes stable. and to think I just wanted to brew beer! who knew! just kidding thank...

ok I did some checking and so4 yeast is said to have 73% attenuation, I followed the formula on White Labs website [(OG-FG)/(OG-1)]x100 and I came up with an attenuation % of 76.9, so does this mean that the yeast has done it's job? should I bottle it now? and if I don't and the yeast consumes...

I mashed at 152, used so4 yeast and yes there was 1# of honey added to the last 10 minutes of the boil, so the numbers that Beersmith churns out are nothing more than a pecentage of the style of beer?

I checked the gravity on my batch of "Dark Brown Honey" i'm using single stage fermentation, it has been in the fermenter for 10 days, my targer FG was1.019 my reading today was 1.015, my target OG was 1.070 and my measured OG was 1.065, does this mean that the beer is done fermenting? and I...

I found out the hard way to pre heat the mash tun!

I am thinking about getting a conical ferementer, what are the advantages to it other than not having to rack to your secondary, does it improve your efficiency? and where is the best place to get them? should you use food grade plastic or stainless? Dave

Congrats! I also just finished my first AG earlier this week, and happily waiting the final results!

The first time I used it I checked it at the boiling point of water and it read 212 deg. and my wife is a nurse and checked it against her digital she uses for work and it was dead on with hers so I can't argue with those results much.

I use a Taylor digital and it is spot on!

I picked up a 48 qt Coleman cooler from Dick's sporting goods and built a CPVC manifold, it was very inexpensive, cooler was on sale for 10 bucks and the CPVC and ball valve was about $18, the 1/2" clear tube I picked up fit nice and tight through te drain in the cooler so there was no needto...

Now that I have dove head first into the mash so to speak, I need to start working on the effinciency, I will give the buffer a try, maybe I should hve moved to partial mash first but no guts no glory!

Just wanted to say thanks to all those that were patient with me asking stupid questions about AG brewing, the batch I made was a brown ale that I added some honey to at the end of the boil, my homemade mashtun worked like a charm, I mashed at 152 deg for an hour and it drained the mashtun in...

Good point wildwest, I'm going to have to check that out.and by the way I read your thread about the brew shed, WOW!!! very nice, and to think I was all excited about the mash tun I just finished lol!

Thanks for the input, I took your advice Chez and downloaded Beersmith and that did the trick, it's telling me to use 4.85 gal. of water @ 166.6 deg. with a grain temp of 72 that should give me a step temp of 152 deg. then 2.43 gal of sparge water, and that should give me a preboil volume of...