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Oh there was way more even. I originally ordered a total of 3 kg specialty grains along with everything else needed for the 3 extract batches. I didn't even need all that but 1kg was the smallest you could buy. Another guy new to brewing placed the order for me and went to pick it up. We live in...

Thanks for all the help guys!

These are the ingredients I have on hand and I don't have access to anything else. I kind of got stuck with this stuff and I've already made 3 batches of Caramunich oktoberfests so I would really like to move away from that into something a lot more hoppy but I'm just not seeing it. Maybe you...

Thanks for the info man. I just bottled today, hydro read 1.007 again. I drank some at the end and it tasted pretty good all things considered. I will be letting them sit for a good 3 weeks before I throw any in the fridge. I would wait longer but the beer here sucks and its expensive. I do...

Now at day 9. I opened it up because its been 3 days with no activity. I got a reading of 1.007 on the hydro. It started at 1.070. I also took a sample and it tastes pretty good. Can I move to bottling at this point?

Awesome. Day 5 I let it go where it wanted. It's at 80 right now and has slowed down quite a bit. I hope I get that 1.005 like you did!

http://www.danstaryeast.com/products/belle-saison-beer-yeast There is a pdf file at the bottom of the page. I'm currently fermenting one right now. I pitched at 100F, ice bathed it down over night to 72F. I've got it in a tub with an inch of water and a wet towel and it goes from 73F in...

Yes it is fermenting, has a good layer of krausen going. I don't know if the smell maters but it smells very good.

Hello all, I have looked up this issue as much as possible but I couldn't find an answer to my next step. I brewed a little over 2 gallons of wart for a 5.5 gallon extract recipe. It called for mixing cold water with the wort to get it down to temp. The problem that I did not see coming with...