Wow, thanks for the answers. Mine is starting to floc out quite nicely actually. The haze is almost all gone. I let the temps rise to 74 and the yeast kept working now its dropping out pretty well. I think I'll take a gravity reading tomorrow.
Can anyone tell me how long wlp500 usually takes to dry out the beer? I made a Golden Strong with this, and at 9 days I have almost no airlock activity. Would it finish out that fast? I did the whole pitch low and ramp up and I have let it ramp to 74 at this point.
Also thanks to this thread...
Hey thanks, thats a good word. Its in the keg with a bit of pressure on it conditioning for a few days now. I took a bigger sample when transferring to the keg and I think you are right... its going to turn out great!
Wanted to check in again here and say that although it dried out to 1.006, I tasted it today while racking to the keg and also let my SWMBO taste it. Both of us gave the thumbs up! My version added a half lb of base malt and upped the hops to .28 oz per drop because I live in San Diego and we...
Well my first brew of this was a bit of a disaster. I lost about 4 degrees during mashing, ending around 146-7 degrees after an hour. Then when I got a stuck sparge towards the middle of fly sparging and had to finish with a batch sparge of the rest of the sparge water... had to eyeball the...
I used the search and landed here so resurrecting this thread. I think I am going to go for a welded bulkhead on my brew kettle, which is a 9 gallon SS pot. I am unclear as to what my options are for the inside of the pot with the coupling?
What I mean to ask is, are most people using some...