Recent content by Davidm714

No, I use a hydrometer. I checked it's calibration after getting the high fg reading and it's correct

I brewed what I was aiming to be a Scottish export 80 Schilling a few weeks ago. As I'm still working out the kinks in my new setup I ended up mashing way too high, 156+. So my final gravity is at 1.024 and won't budge. The starting gravity was 1.050. It was in primary for 2 weeks and secondary...

I had a bottle in the fridge for several weeks and the haze didn't clear up at all. So I chilled all the bottles and carefully poured all of them into my bottling bucket and then racked into a keg (purged with co2 of course) and hit it with some gelatin. I put it on 28 psi and let it go for a...

No I didn't re yeast prior to bottling, in hindsight I wish I had. This is the biggest beer I've ever brewed and I didn't figure the yeast would get over worked. So lesson learned there. I've read in other threads that bigger beers take upwards of 4-6 months to carb up fully so as of now I'm not...

Bump. Any other ideas as to what my problem could be? I did use flaked oats in the mash could that have something to do with it perhaps?

Oops, sorry for the multi post. Got confused

Thanks for the reply. The caps seem to have sealed properly because after the one I put in the fridge came out cloudy and flat I popped another one at room temp and it was perfectly carbed. I put another one in the freezer just long enough to chill it to about 50° which seems to be preferred...

Thanks for the reply. The caps seem to have sealed properly because after the one I put in the fridge came out cloudy and flat I popped another one at room temp and it was perfectly carbed. I put another one in the freezer just long enough to chill it to about 50° which seems to be preferred...

Thanks for the reply. The caps seem to have sealed properly because after the one I put in the fridge came out cloudy and flat I popped another one at room temp and it was perfectly carbed. I put another one in the freezer just long enough to chill it to about 50° which seems to be preferred...

My 10.5% abv all grain wee heavy has been in bottles for a month and a half. At room temp the beer is bright, clear, carbed nicely and tastes great. But when I put one in the refrigerator for 24 hours it turned very cloudy and is completely flat. I'm stumped and can't find any comparable...

Thanks for the fast reply! I actually adjusted the heat several times to see if I could get it to stop. I'm wondering if it's the large amount of flaked rice. I've never used that much of any adjunct in any batch. I've never brewed a light lager as it's not my beer of choice but I keep reading...

Hello, Long time follower first time poster. I've brewed dozens of successful batches but today I had a first that I've never encountered and couldn't find any information about. So I'm hoping someone can shed some light on it for me. Today I brewed a basic american light lager, recipe: 4 lbs...