Recent content by mikezurla

Thanks for the help guys. I rushed home during my lunch break and gave the bucket a swirl or two, put it into a more temperature controlled room (holding steady at 70F) and the air lock is starting to bubble, after only 4 hours. Hopefully this will keep up! Thanks again for all the input and...

Balue, it was an extract kit, partial boil. I hydrated the yeast in 85F water for about 10 min while cooling the wort down to 65F.

ACbrewer, it's in a bucket primary, so I can't tell about the sediment. The temp in the room, based on the thermometer I have in there has been around 63-65, but the other morning it had gotten down to 56-57 range...

Thanks for the input guys. Kevin, I pitched after getting the wort down to 65F. Took me just about 18 minutes to get it there. I used the US-05 Safale yeast. Jay, I think I might take your advice and stir up the wort a tad, and also transfer to another room in the house where temps...

Fellas, New to home brewing. Been interested in it for quite some time, and just brewed up my first batch this past weekend. I know everything I've read has said the air lock bubbling is a bad way to judge fermentation (I had no activity in that which sparked my concern). I brewed the...