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You should average about a quart of water for every pound of grain for steeping and then sparge to get up to your boil size. Adding LME doesn't add much in the way of fermentable sugars but gives you color and body. You should be adding DME for fermentable sugars to get your gravity where you...

Yeah I did expect some sugars but nothing that would considerably effect the OG. Altogether it was only 4lbs of grains.

Used 6lbs of a hopped amber DME and 3lbs of a dark. Pitched two packets of Safbrew S-33. Also, like I mentioned before, I wasn't expecting my fermentables to come from the grains and was relying on the DME for them.

I pitched 2 packets of Safbrew S-33 at around 75F. Didn't aerate with a stone or anything but when I brought the batch up to 5 gallons I used the aerator (sprayer) from my sink to fill and gave it a vigorous stir during the fill. Like I said previously, within the first 24 hours it over...

My most recent batch has me frustrated! I made a stout that's mostly extract with a few lbs of grains for flavor and body. My OG was 1050 at around 70F and today I transferred to secondary after 10 days and current gravity is only 1040 at around 70F. This has me perplexed since the first 24...