Recent content by Lurch86

UPDATE: 48+ hours post boil and the temp is at 66! It's bubbling like crazy so the little yeasties are happy. I'll wait to see if the temp goes back down in a couple of days. If so I'll have to regroup and see what my best course of action is. Most likely bringing it up to the the guest room...

So I just checked it and it's holding steady at 61 degrees. I didn't have time today to get out there and figure out a way to heat it up only a few degrees so I'm just going to wait it out and see how it goes. It's bubbling away so I am not super worried about it at this point. Hopefully I see...

Thank you for the input. The temp I am reading is from the strip thermometer that's on my fermenter bucket. I'm going to see what I can do to bring it up a few degrees so it's about 63 as suggested. I'm not sure how accurate these strip thermometers are but that's all I have to go by for now...

This is my first brew ever. I have been studying the awesome posts here and decided to take the plunge. I decided to do NB's Dead Ringer IPA extract w/ specialty grains. The boil went well. I did a late extract addition and added whirlfloc. I sanitized the crap out of everything several times...