Recent content by Justin Harmon

Ahh.. Brilliant. I think I will use that next time. I appreciate it!

Sweet! It took me a good 15 minutes to calculate it but it looks like my predicted FG is 0.015. My actual FG is 0.013 so I'm assuming I'm more than done at this point. Thanks so much!

OK great. I figured that would be ok to just use the spigot from the fermentation bucket. I finally got a chance to check the FG and its now at 0.013 so I feel pretty good that its done fermenting. Tastes pretty good to boot. Maybe a tad more watered down than I expected but not too shabby...

Hello All, I just have a few bottling day questions that I was wondering about. This is my first time brewing with my new fermentation and bottling buckets. Both of them have spigots on them. I am no longer in possession of my old racking cane and siphon tubing. I was planning on simply...

UPDATE: Hey guys. Great news. The secondary dry yeast did the trick and got my fermentation started as of Saturday morning (so about 12 hours after pitching). That means fermentation was in progress at or slightly before the 60 hour mark after brewing. Do you think that will hurt anything? Im...

Thanks so much! I've been panicking a lot over this. haha I think I'm gonna just go for it now.

OK so I have my dry yeast. I saw your recommendation about doing a starter but I have absolutely no DME left and my LHBS is requires 2 days lead time for curbside pickup (thanks to the Covid pandemic). So.. are there any other types of sugar for a starter? I googled using table sugar and I...

Thanks again guys. (What was LHBS by the way..?)

Thanks so much for the advice gents. So I popped off the airlock and peeked in to see if the krausen layer was forming and unfortunately its looks very clear on top. It looks like my suspicion about the yeast's lack of viability was correct. My OG was about 1.060 which was a bit under the...

I've got an urgent brewing situation here. Any insight or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much! My main issue is this: My airlock is not bubbling whatsoever after 24 hours since pitching my yeast and the ambient temp is about 74-77. I realize that it is very possible that...