Recent content by dbrews100

Yeah, I had a cider in my ferm chamber too! It restarted also. I haven't checked my gravity yet.

Excellent. There beer warmed up fairly quickly and is bubbling away!

So, I had a nice brew day on Sunday - brewed an IPA. Pitched US-05 Sunday afternoon. Fermentation bubbling away by Monday night. On Tuesday morning I noticed I hadn't plugged in my freezer (ferm chamber) into my temp controller, only my heater. It's cold out, but the temp was rising to just...

So, I did my first all grain brew - an IPA! 15 pounds of 2-row and .5 # each of crystal, white wheat and carapils for 16.5# total. Mashed at 152 in a cooler. Boiling to pitching temp in apx. 15 minutes with a coil chiller. OG was 1.072. Yeast: Wyeast 1056. Did a 1.9L starter with...

update: looks like everyone was right. Fermenting going well. About 3/16" of krausen on the surface and about a bubble a minute at 22 hours from pitching! Crisis Averted LOL!

Thanks for the replies! Hopefully it starts to ferment soon!

So, this was my first batch. 5 gallon full boil. Temps good & controlled with a stc-1000. Aerated with o2 wand. I pitched at 5:30 pm yesterday. Anyways, this is what I did wrong. When I went to dump the yeast into my glass carboy, I sprinkled the yeast on the funnel then immediately dumped...