Recent content by mikegio123

Great! I guess my inexperience led to my panic. I'll bottle this weekend. Hopefully it will go smoothly. Thanks for the advice everyone.

My OG was 1.036 and the gravity I just measured now was 1.015. It is starting to smell like beer... Sort of. So maybe I don't need to add more yeast. I guess it was fermenting even though the temp wasn't ideal in the beginning. Next question, when to bottle?

The kit is a lager extract but after rummaging around on the internet I found that the company that makes the extract packages generic "beer yeast" with their product. So I replaced the yeast with a lager yeast. Other than that, I followed the instructions which came with the kit to the letter...

Luckily i had the foresight to buy two packets of the same strain of yeast at the outset. Homebrewing is "illegal" in Japan so my LHBS is the internet. I will post an update when I get home and check the gravity. Thanks.

Thanks. I wanted to know what kind of numbers I should be working with. What's the consensus on rehydrating and proofing the new yeast package before putting it in the fermentation bucket? What about stirring?

Hi. I'm new to the homebrewing scene. My gf bought me a extract brew kit for xmas and I put all the materials together for brewing in January. I brewed 20L of a Blackrock Lager extract on February 10th. I pitched the saflager S-23 dry yeast at about 20C/68F degrees. After about 1 week the temp...