Recent content by sdm519

Thanks Calder. I am using white labs London Ale Yeast 013. I boiled a little under a gallon of water for about 20 mins, cooled it down and poured it in the bucket. Great tip in getting the O2 out. I'll make sure to remember to really mix it up next time on these heavier beers. I was planning on...

Thanks for replying. It's been about 24 hours and there is krausen blowing through the blowoff tube so I am a bit too late. Should I put the 0.5 gal in as soon as it dies down enough to safely open the lid? I was worried about it not being mixed enough so I swirled and reopened the lid about...

So just sealed up my first barley wine in the primary fermentor. I was a little surprised I didn't get the OG I was expecting (got 1.088 @ 4.5gals instead of 1.11 at 5 gals.) I was following a recipe I saw in my homebrew store (with altered hops choices.) My notes are below, can someone let...

I just finished my boil on my Hef, cooled down the wort, transferred to the carboy, added water to the 5 gallon mark and took a hydrometer reading. The reading was only 1.022 or so. When siphoning the cool wort from the kettle, there was a very large amount of sediment that was left behind, so...