Recent content by Jeremy123

Hey thanks for your help everyone. We decided to go with the IPA. It's too bad I'm not set up to keg because that would have been the way to go from the start. Prime dose would have been a good idea last week. I'm bummed I didn't address it sooner but i was holding out hope it would carb on its...

Hey guys, A friend asked me to brew a batch of homebrew for his wedding which is tomorrow. It's been in bottles for 3 weeks, cracked one open last night and it's pretty flat. Fortunately its a milk stout so it "kind of" goes with the style-but its definitely flatter than it should be. Any...

Ok so I raised the temp to upper 60's but two more days later (so 5 days total) the gravity has not changed at all. So add more yeast then? I have a few packs of dry yeast that's viable so I'm not worried about the cost.

Hey guys, made a belgian wit with a extract a few days ago. OG was 1.060, added Safale-58. The fermentation had taken off the next day but it didn't seem super vigorous like all my other batches had done. Then by day two and three there was a thin layer covering about 60% of the top. So today...

Weird question: I pitched some yeast in a carboy 2 1/2 days ago, it's in my fermentation chamber which is kept warm by a little space heater controlled by a temp controller. I've probably gone to look at the beer 5-6 times now and EVERY single time when I am seeing how fermentation is going I...

Ok so I'm finding it pretty hard to calculate how much water to add to make it fermentable again since it has already come down to about 1.050-1.060. Any thoughts? One idea I had was to move half of the 5gl to another carboy and add 2 gallons to that one and try to ferment. While leaving the...

Cut with water? How much would I use and wouldn't that make it really weak and thin? And I'd heard that a slightly warmer temp could sometimes rouse the yeast back into activity...what temp do you keep your ales?

Hey guys, this is a follow up from an old post about a racer 5 clone. Originally brewed march 15th-due to some mislabeling I added WAY too much extract leaving me with an OG of 1.135. Waited two weeks and bottled-at 1.070 (major dummy move on my part). Thought something might be wrong with such...

Ok I'll try repitching. Do I need the WLP090? I have a few packs of safale-us05 and some DME on hand if I can use that.

I suppose the amount of extract I put in could be wrong. I was given the extract from another home brewer and I just went by the numbers that the HBS wrote on the jars. I'm pretty positive on my volumes, although I did only have 4.5 gallons in the bottling bucket. And now I'm trying to...

This was a 5 gallon batch. Full boil. I did end up topping with about a quart. OG measurement said 1.1.35 I rehydrated the yeast before I added it. So what should I do at this point? Is it crazy to crack them all open, carefully pour back in the fermenter and pitch some more yeast? I...

Here is my recipe: 8 lbs liquid malt extract 12 oz corn sugar Grains: 1.5lbs american wheat .33 lbs 2-row .66 lbs crystal malt 20l .33 lbs carapils Hops: .5oz chinook 90 minute 1.7oz cascade 60 minute .7 oz centennial dry hop for 5 days in secondary .3oz cascade dry hop for 5...

Hey so I bottled a batch today it was intended to be an IPA, I loosely followed a recipe for a Racer 5 extract Clone but due to available ingredients I had to change some things up. Anyway on brew day (March 15th) the OG was 1.135--MUCH higher than it was supposed to be. I was aiming for...

I'm at 68 degrees. I just bumped it up to around 70-71. I guess ill just check in a couple days to see if the gravity is the same?

Yup, just didn't bother since it only added risk of contamination and wasted beer. Took one just now, (8 days after first pitch, 5 days after 2nd pitch) and the reading was 1.040. SG was supposed to be 1.042-1.046 according to the kit. So is this a massive bummer or is there something I can do?