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I have a 5 gal batch of very high gravity (1.110 OG) crabapple wine based on Yooper's recipe on Safeale US-05 that's been steadily chugging away for about 6 weeks. My two 1-gallon top-up jugs have settled out to about 50% sediment after I racked into secondary. I'm thinking of pressing another...

Thanks for all the thoughtful replies. So, I brought it up to a boil, put the sanitized lid on it and let it cool and sit overnight, boiled it up the next day after work w/ 2 oz leftover Warrior at 60 and 1 oz leftover Kent Golding at flameout and pitched it with slurry from the IPA I just...

Did an AG Stout yesterday, with 21# of grain, which is a lot for me; got my mash gravity where I wanted it, but just for kicks did a third and fourth sparging of my spent grains and now I have 6 gal of 1.050 second runnings. Here's the question; I can't brew for a few days, it'll be sitting in...

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Good discussion. I'm looking forward to trying a Ten Fidy recipe, and I'm thinking O2 will help with the high OG. Has anyone posted a build for an O2 system using the red Benzomatic disposable tanks?

Thanks guys. I feel better; and it's chugging away now, so the die is cast. My last few brews I just threw everything in the kettle, and then into the carboy, and everything worked fine, but I was having SO much trub at bottling that I was trying to find ways to reduce it. Straining the hops...

I'm brewing an AG Pliny clone, and I just added the flame-out hops addition to the hops bag I'm using to contain the huge amount of hops and dropped it in, but now I'm worried that that was a mistake, and I should have just added the last hops addition to the kettle. Will I get the hops goodness...

It is what it is. You're fine. Relax and have a beer!

I'm no expert, but the smart folks around here are going to ask you your exact recipe, and OG just for starters. I had this EXACT issue; my stout stuck right at 1.033 as well, and it took a lot of work to nudge it down. After rousing and warming failed, and pitching another ale yeast smack...

Wow! Yooper is a vet! I'm such a fan! Making your Ruination clone right now!

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Okay, all good input. Thanks! So I moved the carboy to a bathroom with a thermostat, stirred up the yeast cake with a sanitized racking cane. It's been sitting at 70 degrees now overnight, and I'm getting the occasional bubble through the airlock this morning. Think that's enough? I have...

I pitched at 74 or so, but my ferment temps have been in the low 60s. The extract boiled with the mash wort for 60 minutes, it was 8# of LME and 1 # of dextrose. The grains were just 1.5# of roasted barley and black patent malt. I used a wyeast Irish Ale smack-pack, but no starter. Peter...

Hi guys; tagging along with this thread: I'm brewing my first batch and I believe I'm stuck. I'm doing a stout based on Papizan's Armenian Imperial, and all went very well, except that 8 days in primary now, I'm only down from OG 1.055 to 1.030, where it's been for three days. I'll address my...