Recent content by millermeter22

I mistakenly added the extra 1 cup of lactose into the primary. When I go to bottling should I add more due to potentially not having as much dissolved lactose in the solution?

I understand what adding hops at flameout is but don't get what happen betwen that point and adding the wort of a partial boil to the cold water in the fermented. Should you wait some time or rack right away? Best practices in terms of transferring hot wort from kettle to primary while leaving...

the yeast was a Wyeast 1338 Euro Ale liquid yeast. Didn't know about the starter thing with liquid yeasts until after I had already pitched (read it the following day). the LHBS owner said it would provide a better taste to the beer than the yeast in the kit. I still have the dry yeast...

so I swirled the carboy. here it is a week and a half later and the sg is 1.024 after adjusting for temperature. I will take another sg reading in a few days to see how far it has moved by then but am just curious as to what next steps would be. If still 1.024 after the next 3 days and I...

When swirling do I need soMething long enough that will get down into the cake. I don't think I have anything that will reach the bottom of the carboy. Or will swirling like 1/2 to 2/3 bring the yeast back into action.

My first batch of ironmaster northern brown ale has been fermenting in carboy primary for 2 weeks. Og 1.059 showed strong fermentation after about 16 hrs. Sg right now is 1.032. Getting airlock bubble about every 15 secs. Still at the point where I should just sit back and let it do it's thing?