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Well landed at around 1.016 from 1.066. Certainly not a cold IPA but hopefully its okay. Opted to not use the citra spectrum on this beer!!! First time have fermentation play out like this in 11 years... Oh well... I did end up adding a rehydrated packet of 34/70 and the fresh pack a arl lol...

Just an update we are at 1.036 now. I live out in the sticks. Hoping 34/70 arrives on Tuesday. This should get interesting.

Lol!!! Hey it wouldn't be fun if I didn't play around with different hops, yeast and lately even different maltsters. I appreciate all of the insight and plan to circle back as thing progress.

Yeah I'm doing the beer for a competition. I thought it would be fun to play with something other than 34/70 ideally with some esters. I was on the site and figured hey why not I've never used their yeasts because I don't do much in terms of sours etc.... I clearly didn't know what I was...

Yeah but I can't say I've seen a yeast act like that but never used this product. Usually I've found the drop continues fairly steady until within a few points and slows down. This is when the curve will flatten out. Tilts can be good or bad I suppose. I had to bump from 61 to 65 to achieve...

I hope so I put t90 simcoe and a small canister of mosaic and citra incognito in the whirlpool so I'm a bit deep on the hops pricewise for this 5.5 gallon batch! I had a small citra spectrum ready too for dry hopping with Nectaron so I was excited to see how this one would play out. The last...

So I checked today with the trusty hydrometer. We are at 1.040 which matches my tilt. I mean it did drop some from yesterday but definitely seems slow. Given it's day 5, I ordered Omega 106 and if bootleg gets the arl I can always consider pitching. I would have thought we would be closer to...

So I got yeast in Feb that was manufactured in December. I was brewing a cold IPA so planned to ferment in the 60s. I opted to do a 2 liter starter and left on the stir plate for probably four days. I pitched the started after decanting maybe 0.5 liters. Fermentation started within 12 hrs...

Hey Summer is this RIMS system still available and if so what you asking for it? Shipping available? I'm up in northeaster PA. PM me if you want to work something out.

Drew a sample at 48 hrs and it's confirmed I'm at terminal 1.011. It does smell sulfury so not sure this one will survive. I suppose I will consider leaving it on the yeast for a bit followed by cold conditioning and hope/pray.

I checked og with a refractometer at transfer to the fermenter. I haven't pulled a sample yet because I simply felt this was fairly odd to me. I mashed at 151 and terminal was to be around 1.011 which is where I'm at. I do have concerns that if the sample begins to carb that the gravity...

I'm at terminal gravity but plan to leave as is for likely one to two weeks. With that said terminal in 43 hours seems unusual to me. Any thoughts?

Fyi decided to go with the mixed style category and landed a 41 out of 50. I placed at the event and wanted to say thanks to those who provided feedback. It helped me reconsider where I was thinking of putting the beer.

Looking revive this thread for some general input. Placed a black lager in the basement with ambient at 62. Of course warm weather hit and my ambient temps in basement are at around 66 or so. I originally pitched two packets of 34/70 with a tilt inside. Original temp at pitch was 65. I did...

I recently used it with strata. I could see those two and citra working nice. I know you wanted old school but just wanted to throw an option out there.