Recent content by vincent9192

Thanks for the replies, I'm thinking my 1st reading of 1.02-.03 was off somehow. The gravity now is right around 1.085 which is right on with what you're saying. I guess this means fermentation will take longer than a lower alch% beer? Hopefully it doesn't need more yeast since the wyeast...

Yeah I literally took 1/2 of a 5 gallon batch that was reading 1.02-1.03 and boiled it until it had reduced by around a gallon or so. Added that back into the 2.5g I still had sitting in the primary bucket. Took another reading and it was 1.09. Didn't realize 1.02-1.03 would affect things...

Hmm... Well I'm not sure if this was an all-grain because it had malt extracts in it but there were whole grains as well. I'm actually very new to this as this was only my 3rd brew attempt. I had gone to the local home brew store and they suggested a kit for the stout so that's what I was...

I might have it totally wrong on reading the hydrometer but I just filled the test tube up with liquid and put the hydrometer in? The temp when it read 1.02-1.03 was around 90 and the temp when it read 1.09 was 110 or so. I did reduce 2.5 gallons to about 1.5 gallons so not sure if that's...

So earlier today I started off my 1st grain brew attempt, a clone of left hand milk stout. Everything was going good but my O.G. was very low, 1.02 compared to the 1.06 the recipe suggested it should be. After some reading I realized my mistake was that after steeping the grains I sparged...