Recent content by Darlynius

Post a pic. Sounds normal, but post a pic just to be sure.

Then if it tastes and smells good, you're good to go! More than likely due to fermentation. It is okay to open, but there is always a risk of oxidation. If you've had success in the past, keep it rolling

How did you clean you equipment prior to using it? The black residue that's ringed around the beer is a product of fermentation at times. Did you use TSP or cleaned your fermenter w/ warm water and soap? If you didn't do either, and just rinse it w/ water, I'd be worries that residual oils...

Hey, all! Just looking around for the pH for the aforementioned water chem profile. I just added it to my BeerSmith app, I just need pH, unless the defaulted 7 is okay? Thanks!

I plugged everything into BS and it's recommending I steep using 2 gal of water. I'm going full boil after that, and adding my malt extracts, etc from there. The called for OG is 1.064, BS has me at 1.65. the ABV calls for 6.4 but BS has me at 7.1. the numbers are off by just a small bit on BS...

Pardon... I don't plan to move to another vessel. I'm leaving my dry hopping in the same conical fermenter and will just dump the trub from the trub valve. Thanks for the post-fermentation temp!

Salutations! I'm brewing a NEIPA soon, and have decided to go w/ Omega Yeast Tropical IPA. I'm going to use FastPitch as a started 3 days before brew day, cold crashing it the day before, then dumping the wort, and just using the slurry on brew day. I plan to primary ferment at 80F w/ a...

Thanks! The more I've read, and the more videos I've watched, there are more than 1 ways to skin a cat.

I shall keep it simple :) Thanks!

I've read that, which is why I was inclined to jump on here and ask. However, I've gotten responses from both ends, some saying that it'll make for a better beer given a higher starting water volume during steeping, and a few have cautioned about the risk of extracting tannins w/ a larger water...

Hello, everyone! I'm wondering if there are any rules to steeping extract grains, specifically the volume of water to steep in? The recipe I'm trying calls for steeping in 2.5 gallons of water at 150 F. I have a 10 gal kettle, and want to make a 5 gallon batch. I'm fermenting in an Ask...