Recent content by Brownherb86

Sweet ok. I wanna share it on st. Patty’s would be bummer if it was gross

2.75 gallon AG Irish Red ale. 1.059 OG. Nottingham dry ale yeast pitched at 66* wort temp.. 24 hours later it’s full steam at 72*. Had to swap out airlock for a blow off tube and the beer in the airlock smelled foul. Beer has stable temp now at 71*. Manufactures packaging says ideal up to 72*...

Yeah I was going for a sweet stout but I think I got a SWEEEET stout.

So I pulled a hydrometer sample and it’s right at 1.030. Pretty sure it’s done after only 3 days but I bumped the temp up to 70*, gave it a swirl, and gonna check again in a week or two. I believe the high mash temp is the issue and not my beloved yeast. Hopefully it’ll drop a few more points...

Ok I was thinking I underpitched. Thought I needed 150 mL for original recipe. Thanks for the response Smellyglove. Gonna take a gravity reading here shortly and see what the damage is.

I brewed a recipe I wrote for a sweet stout without lactose, my 7th AG batch. Overshot my OG by 11 GU for an OG of 1.067! Up’d the hop addition to account, and pitched a 150mL slurry of US-05 into the 2.75 gallon batch. Lag time was <6 hrs. and fermentation seemed like it was going good until I...

Thanks Northern_Brewer. Still new to all this and really appreciate the response’s

Ok thanks flars. I think I’ll be patient and let it clear up more, makes more sense.

I have a beer I’d like to bottle tomorrow and harvest the WB-06 yeast from the bottom of the carboy. It would be 10 days since it started fermenting @ 64* for four days then 3 days @ 67* then I dropped the temp to 58* to try and help the yeast settle. This is my first wheat beer and the yeast...

Good to know I won’t be the only one!

Thank you all for your responses. A quality pH meter will be purchased in the near future. I bought a cheapo one off amazon and I couldn’t get it to calibrate so I wrote it off as a $14 loss. lol You wouldn’t regret it although I do miss the luxury of a supermarket

Thank you for your input PianoMan and myndflyte. Definitely the best tasting water I ever drank, hoping to make the best tasting beer. Looks like I’ll be playing around with Bru’n water

Took 10 days for my sample to make it from rural Alaska to the Ward Labs laboratory so I’m wondering about the accuracy of my test results. PH 6.7 TDS 23 ppm Conductivity .04 mmho/cm Cations/Anions .03/.02 me/L...

I'm curious to how long cracked grains will last too. I have a 5 gallon brown ale recipe with the grains already cracked. I ordered offline about a year ago before I had a grain mill and it's sitting in my 10 gallon igloo unfinished mash tun.

I wanna make this in a 2.5 gallon batch.