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Thanks. I wasn't sure if I should expect airlock activity or not, especially since I have all that excess air at the top of my bucket. I just worried since the first two batches were clearly visible by the airlock. I'll take a gravity reading tomorrow and see what it says.

I brewed a saison on Sunday and I'm having a difficult time telling if the yeast is doing anything. Quick background - I do all grain BIAB brewing in 2.5-3gal sizes and this is my fourth beer. The first two were identical IPAs using a dry yeast. My last one was a stout, and my first attempt...

Thanks for the input. I mashed for 60 minutes, then just pulled the bag and squeezed the grains, extracting about 1-2 cups of liquid from it. There's no sparge in BIAB. Same with mash thickness, to get a final volume of 2.5g I estimated somewhere around 4.25g initially with the grains, which...

Thanks for the quick reply. I had the grain crushed at my LHBS about one month prior to use. I'm wondering if maybe it wasn't crushed enough. Strike water was 160, expecting it'd drop to 154. It only went to around 157, so I left it uncovered and stirred for around 10 minutes until temp dropped...

I attempted brewing this a few weeks ago and think I may have had an issue. This is only my third brew attempt, all of them have been all-grain BIAB style. I followed the recipe (using the ~154F mash temp suggested in later posts) but noticed my OG was somewhere around 1.036, which is strangely...