Recent content by Kwade

Thanks for the input guys! Very helpful.

How cold is too cold? I have seen people post on this forum and others that they always brew their ales in the low 60's. However, the While Labs site indicates that the optimal range for the 001 is 68 - 73. Does anyone out there know if 001 will do its normal great job at, say, 63? (My...

Thanks guys (and/or gals)! So would you recommend leaving the temp at 60 or slowly dropping it back down to 50 for the remainder of the primary fermentation? (I understand that after primary it needs to be lagered in a secondary vessel.)

So the consensus on this board seems to be to ferment ales for 3 to 4 weeks to allow the yeast to clean up some of the by-products of the fermentation. After considerable experimentation, I agree with this approach. My question is whether there is any benefit to such a long primary fermentation...

Wait until the krausen falls. I have seen the "overly active" fermentation stop and restart. I usually wait four or five days to be sure.

Luiz, Start a new thread and I'm sure you'll get responses. If I understand your questions, yes, you can ferment in the same fermenter the whole time. No need to change to a secondary fermenter. Wait three weeks (or even four) if you can before bottling. As for your second question, the...

I use a dip tube brush and OxyClean. You can get the dip tube brushes for 3/8 and 1/4 inch tubes. Even gets the blow off tubes clean.

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You'll want to get confirmation of what I'm telling you from someone more experienced, but I think your bottle conditioning temperature is a little on the cold side. I'm guessing that it will still carbonate at this temperature, but will take much longer. 68 to 72 F would be better. Good luck!

Thanks for the reply. After looking at it more closely, I think the cloud was moving because I had moved the fermenter to get it out of the refrigerator. I'll give it a few more days before checking SG again. If it is still at 1.011, I'm going to cold crash for a few days and then bottle...

I am making a Whistling Pig Red Ale clone (5 gal.), the recipe for which I got out of BYO. OG was 1.053 and the Fermentis S-33 was pitched at about 60 F. It has been fermenting at 64 F (per the recipe) for three weeks, as of today. Today, I took the first gravity reading since pitching the...

Hello, Just started brewing a few months ago and have already learned tons from browsing the forums. Thought I would make it official and help support the site. Having a blast so far! My brews (all extracts with specialty grains, except the first) have been Coopers Pale Ale, an amber ale...