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Cider, I hear you. Just can't help I'm impetuous often[emoji5]️. I am planning on waiting a week before checking again. Thanks!

Update: I sampled the beer tonight and the SG had dropped from 1.024 to 1.020 over the 24 hrs since racking :mug: FG is actually supposed to be 1.012. We'll see what a week brings. Thanks again for your help! Scott

I appreciate the replies. This is actually the first beer I've ever racked to a secondary. I did it because I was fretting about having poorly transferred the wort from the kettle to the fermenter. I'd decided to use a steel scouring pad at the inlet of my keggle, but apparently during...

Well, it's been 15 years sonce I last brewed, but I finally got things together and started again. After a decent but nondescript extrtact brew, I dove back into all grain. I started with a simple book recipe for aa 5 gallon batch of an American Amber Ale, using 2-row as base, some...

Wow! Okay, digging deep into my memories of college chemistry I was able to follow along - except for the above quoted line. By "~ 2.5" do you mean "the answer is approximately 2.5" or is "~" some sort of mathematical operator? My sample pH was 7.7, so plugging in would give: 50000 *...

Hi All, New to the forum, and getting back into homebrewing after a 15 year hiatus :-) My question is about calculating calcium in brewing water after lime slaking. Here is my info: Tap water analysis: pH: 7.7 Na: 16 ppm K: 4 ppm Ca: 51 ppm Mg: 13 ppm TH as CaCO3: 182 ppm...