Recent content by LeeHall505

I don't currently have a blow off tube.

I have had to replace the airlock twice now in the past week. They continue to get clogged and pressure keeps building up and bulging the lid. Should I keep replacing them or let it go without an airlock? I have read that some belgian brewers use open fermenters.

Thanks!

The tripel is fermenting in a 6.5 gallon bucket and has the highest krausen I've seen. A little bit is getting into the airlock but I don't have a blow off tube. Should I just let it do it's thing? Any suggestions?

Thank you for the feedback! I was just worried about a stagnant or incomplete fermentation. Recently I brewed a small batch black IPA kit pitched with dry yeast and the krausen didn't begin to form until a couple days after pitching. I didn't take an original gravity reading so I just let the...

How long should the airlock be going crazy? I've never brewed a beer of such high gravity and the airlock is already simmering down after less than 48 hours.

Thanks! Cheers!

It definitely smells fruity but could it just be acetaldehyde?

Thanks! What should the airlock smell like?

I am relatively new to home brewing and I brewed a belgian tripel extract kit yesterday. I pitched a yeast starter made with two packs of omega yeast belgian ale W OYL-028 at about 2:30 PM. The cooled and aerated wort (I simply transferred rather violently between two sanitized buckets to...

Thanks for the feedback! What do you mean by "a good hard rack"?

Hey thanks! That calculator is super easy to use. Sorry I meant that the calculators don't differentiate between style of ale or lager. I haven't brewed any Belgian ales and I wouldn't know about the "proper" pitching rate for, say, a double NE IPA versus a Belgian tripel. Apparently Belgians...

The calculators typically won't account for the style of beer being made. Now I know Belgians can be pitched low. For the quad I chose for the pitch rate to be high gravity ale 1.0 million cells/ml/°Plato, 5 gallons of wort OG: 1.09, with 2 smack packs manufactured on 12-16-19. Since I don't...

Thanks for the response! Considering I also don't have any oxygen kits or tools to most effectively aerate the wort, how would you recommend I aerate it?

Hey everyone! I am new to brewing and have done extensive research on the process. I have brewed a couple Mr.Beer kits, a couple small batch extract kits, and a 5 gallon extract kit. In my own hubris and curiosity I decided to purchase a belgian tripel extract kit with an original gravity of...