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It finally got down to 1.010 after about 13 Days. I ramped up the temp to 55 then 60 as it seemed to stop fermenting for a while and finished with a few days at 68. I am cold crashing right now. It tried a taste and it’s a little rough but we’ll see after it lagers for a while.

Thanks. I actually turned the temp down on Saturday and it stalled my fermentation ! I have held steady at 1.030 The last two days However the beer in my hydrometer built up a good Krausen when I let it warm up and dropped 10 points in one day, so I turned the temp up to 58 to help it finish

Just a quick update. I increased temp to 55 on day 4. I just checked the gravity on day 5 and looks like I am down 12 points in two+ days so clearly got fermentation going. Should I lower the temp back down to 50?

I have about 10 brews under my belt, this is my first lager and my first issue with fermentation. I am pretty confident in my sanitation and temps. I oxygenated the wort using a oxygen tank. I followed the recipe for a pils from ballast point which said to use two packs of wpl800 but in...

Thanks for all the replies. Do you think I should make a yeast starter and repitch or ramp up the temp or do both, I was following directions from ballast point that said to use two pitch packs and though That would have been enough but in using a calc seems like I may have been way short

I am pretty sure it was good. I brought it home from the brew store and had it stored in the frig before taking it out and warm it up. Its use by date was July 2021. I pitched two packs instead of a starter I just checked and shows no movement from the OG do you think I should bump up the...

I pitched 2 packs of WPL800 pils yeast that was at roughly 70 degrees into well aerated 58 wort which then cooled down to 51 degrees. after 3 days I have zero activity. No krausen or bubbles. Its my first Lager so maybe I need to RDWHAHB but wondering if I should be warming up the wort to...

I just put my first sour in secondary. I am using two Corney kegs for secondary fermentation. I split the 5 gallons into two kegs. 1 with cherries and 1 with raspberries. i forgot to measure my fg when I transferred but it was no more that 1.012. I don’t have spunding valves so I release a...

I am not sure of the design of your top and various clearances but these would probably be plenty strong and completely hidden. I would think your other options would be plenty strong as well.

not sure if I am having the same problem but my system stops working after a while usually 24 hours plus. The temp gauge on the front page stops updating. The tx/rx lights on the uno don’t flash and when I click restart flow monitor it doesnt restart. There are no entries in the log. I end...

Great. Saves me from returning a bunch of stuff. Is there a recommendation for what order the valve and flow meter are. Should I put the flow meter closest to the ball lock or the valve?

i am planning to use beer tubing with an inside diameter of 4MM. To connect this to my valves i have 1/4" to 3/16 ' barb john Guest adapters that fit into the valves. Before I build all this, i was looking at the diameter of the 3/16" barb and its pretty small. Do you think this will create a...

RandR+, My temp probe ran all day with no issues so looks like your latest comit fixed my problem. Thanks so much I have set up a simply python script t send an SMS message and was thinking about using that to send an SMS whenever there was a pour. This is so I can keep track of the...

i Thanks so much. I installed and will let you know if further problems.

So i changed all lines in flowmonitor to log under the temp to log I got the following error Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/www/html/python/FlowMonitor.py", line 727, in run temp = self.get_temp(device) File "/var/www/html/python/FlowMonitor.py", line 693, in get_temp status =...