Recent content by kylexc

Thank you everyone. Makes a lot more sense. I just haven't moved to the calculators because of the complexity it adds. Oh well.

Hi, everyone I have been trying to accurately get my pH around 5.3 for most of my brews. I bought a Erickhill pH meter and bought some lactic acid 88% to play around with. Just one drop of lactic acid brings my gallon of RO water from 6.17ph to 5.36ph. I have done several gallon test which have...

I believe this is a China knock off of the keg land grain mill. I was loosing grains the entire milling process. I couldn't imagine hand cranking it. High torque low speed on electric drill. Never going backwards. Not sure how quickly it was slipping by but more then enough to stop and start a...

Hello everyone, I bought this grain mill second hand and for some reason it keeps dropping grain in the corners of the rollers. Maybe just one side. Screws are tight. It mills generally alright but I noticed grains slipping through. Particularly a wheat. How would I fix this? Pictures for more...

Hmmm. I did not take a taste of it. Good point. I will. I will start taking taste samples, that'll be fun. I have listened to people talk about sampling at certain times of the brew, just never did myself. Thank you Alex.

Thank you. This has really helped understand what happened. Nothing happened which was expected after adding the yeast to Bluemoon. I will calibrate the Isplindle. After reading about calibration it was messed up by myself last time I messed with it. I will try the bluemoon again. I need to...

The yeast starter doesn't have yeast in it yet. I add it later. The jar consist of 4oz DME and 8 Ounces of water. Again I was wrong, it didn't make 10 jars. I made 10. Then add the water to 1 liter... Sorry about the omission Doug! Wasn't intended. I keep notes on an app that I used until I...

Picture of yeast starter.

An easy step I skipped on was getting the og. My apologies I didn't get that. I didn't trust it. Which I will do in the future. Maybe it's more consistent then I thought. I didn't get a picture of the hydrometer. I can get one today. The yeast starter is a DIY canned condensed wort to store on...

I did check the beer with the hydrometer and it read zero alcohol. The mixture tasted fine and looked fine. The yeast starter I made myself. 4 oz dme 8oz water Sprinkle yeast nutrients Pressure cooker for 30 minutes.

Yes! This was my first time I milled everything except the oats. I milled at 0.32. I only did it once. For the ispindle data I looked and didn't find any screen shots. I deleted the data unfortunately. I honestly just used the spindle to tell me things were working and when it was done. The...

Yes, I will double check with my hydrometer. I had some inconsistencies with the hydrometer and didn't trust it. It most likely was my own error with it. Mash temp was 154F for an hour, then sparged with 2.5 gal for 30 minutes about the same temperature. Boiled for 75 minutes. The spindle...

I Obtained 2 packets of US-05 (11.5grams) and will pitch those in tomorrow. I will take a reading to see what gravity it is at. Just the yeast packets which will be a first for myself. Thankfully a buddy was flying in late and he stopped at the brew shop and got some. Will report back. Thank...

The drop in gravity about the middle of chart is when I pitched the second yeast, maybe 300ml. Usually it is very close to 1.000 when it stops moving and is done. Or I think it's done.

Snuffy thanks for explaining the dry yeast some more. I will order some more to have some on standby. Hypothetically if you took one packet of dry yeast and added it to a 1 liter starter would you have the amount of yeast of 2 packets by 48 hours on a stir bar. In my mind I thought I would have...