Recent content by dforge888

@Farmboy530 - attended a local brew club meeting this past Sunday and one of the members advised to just skip a reading and repitch with a pack of Fermentis SafAle US-05, but not get my hopes up. It's been 24 hours since repitching, and have yet to see any visible activity. Probably gonna wait...

Sorry I should have revised that part of the recipe, I copied and pasted the original. I hand wrote in a notebook all of the deviations from that process. Anyways, we definitely aerated a lot more than 1 min, and we had a solid 3-4 days of heavy activity, with the foam rising to nearly the...

We just racked a belgian tripel that has been in the primary for 2 weeks into a secondary, and the gravity reading was 1.030. We racked into the secondary and took the reading because when we brewed 2 weeks earlier, the original reading we got before pitching the yeast was way off due to the...

We are due to bottle our licorice/coffee stout (extract) any day now, and are planning on adding dextrin for body to the bottles, along with the carbonation pills, and we were wondering on how best to do so. I may be mistaken but, I believe I've read a few things online which said we need to...

Hi Yuri My buddy and I have been following this recipe for a pumpkin ale in which we will be racking into the secondary tomorrow morning. (its been in the primary for over 3 weeks now). We plan on making a spiced tea with similar spices, plus adding hint of vanilla bean which we've heard is...