Recent content by vsoares

Yes I think thats exactly what I will have to do! I am considering even striking for a little lower temperature, and then heating it up very slowly to get to the correct mash temperature.

I brew all grain. The last fermetation was pretty insane, actually. We have a fermenter that holds up to 30 litters, and we put just under 25 L (actually 24L, because we got a little too high evaporation from the 90 min boil). Thankfully we use a blow off tube instead of a airlock. The thing...

Yes the first thing I thought was that my hydrometer was off, because both reading are high (OG and FG), or maybe that my tap water had a huge amout of dissolved salts, but I have already measured the local tap water density using my hydrometer and it reads something between 1.000 and 1.001...

Thanks guys, I am glad to know there is, indeed, such a thing as a forced fermentation test and that is exactly what I was expecting would solve my problem. Sure I will be extra carefull about my mashing temperatures from now on as well!

Hi everyone, I am in my fourth batch now, but in my first two I forgot to measure the OG, so they dont contribute any data to the problem that I am about to describe. I am brewing purelly all grain (here in Brazil we have no option, cause there are no malt extracts available). The problem I...