Recent content by primativeBREW

Hey everyone, just wanted to give a quick update to ease some concerns others might have if they had or have a similar thing happening to them. Last time I posted I had some airlock activity starting and lowered my temp controller back to 54 for the remainder of the fermentation. Once my...

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Well I finally got some fermentation activity going. I raised the temp up to 58 this morning and when I got home from work I had some airlock bubbles, I just lowered the temp controller back down to 54 and will check he gravity in about 2 weeks. Thanks for the advice from everyone, I was...

No did not top it off I hit my gravity numbers and didn't want to dilute it any. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Well due to a mistake on my part I only ended up with 3.5 gallons ( I under sparged) still hit my numbers though am I still under pitched with a 2L starter? Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

My OG was 1.054. Should I pitch more yeast? Or just wait it out Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I used WLP 820 Oktoberfest yeast. The recipe I used off beer smith said 54df for 2 weeks in primary. Then 3 days at 62 for a diacytle rest then lager at 34 for 30 days my fermenter is currently reading 54 Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Ya I let the starter go for about a day and a half on my stir plate I had lots of activity for the first day and a good layer of yeast on the bottom when I took it out of the fridge to pitch Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Hey everyone. I brewed an Oktoberfest over the weekend I had trouble getting it cooled down to 54df so I kept it in my fermenting fridge over night. I made a 2L starter as well and put it in the fridge at the same time to get the pitching temp to 54 in my starter as well. I had read that for...

I had 13 lbs of grain so about 2 gallons of absorption? So between the missing gallon of sparge and the grain absorption I was short 3 gallons plus the boil off makes about 4 so I think I found my answer. Thanks for the help everyone. Things to think about for my next batch Sent from my iPad...

Per my recipe on beer smith today I added 4 gallons to the mash and the did a batch sparge with another 4 gallons......and after looking at my recipe right now to verify I realized I messed up. I was suppose to batch sparge with 5 gallons. So I was a gallon short there, then factoring in boil...

Pre boil volume was around 7 gallons

The settings have been the same as far as my boil off rate turn loss etc. I'm starting to get more serious about brewing and will hopefully be able to upgrade my equipment here by Christmas. I have though been messing with my burner( darkstar burner) and achieved a boil of 7 gallons in a record...

Maybe that's what it is. My boil is a lot more vigorous, thanks for the input I will try dialing it down and see if that helps Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Hey everyone. I am having problems achieving the correct batch size post boil. According to beersmith2 I should have achieved 5.50 gallons post boil, but only collected 3.5 gallons. This is the second time that this has happened. I have done 6 batches on my equipment and was getting around 5.5...