Recent content by irununo

Thanks everybody for the help. I decided to step it up a third time and am in the middle of a fantastic brew day. Thanks again.

I bought a Wyeast bohemian lager pack with a manufacturing date of 12/4/2013 in order to brew an all grain Oktoberfest. Mr Malty said it had 20% viability and the calculator from this site said 40%. Either way, I made a 1.5 liter starter and had it spinning on my stir plate for 48hrs with no...

i did underpitch. it should make it though. i'll take your advice and wait to rack it. fingers crossed.

Specific Gravity reads 1.026 and with a target of 1013 its 2/3rd's fermented. I'll rack away.

Everything i have read says to do diacetyl rest for at least 3 days. i always do mine after the secondary and before i bottle so i do wait for the fg. i never have any problems w/ diacetyl.

I have an amber lager with an og of 1.052 fermenting at 51degrees. I pitched wyeast 2124 bohemian lager yeast at 60degrees 7 days ago. I left it at about 60 degrees for about a day waiting for fermentation to kick in and then moved it to the fridge. Its been steadily bubbling and is currently...