Recent content by white_nite

Happy New Year Homebrew Friends! I'm about to start my first brew of 2012--"Fire In The Hole IPA" with a good dose of dry hopping and oak chips in the secondary. My question in this thread is not about this beer (though I may have one in a week or two) ;) but rather the brew I am hoping to...

Thanks for all the input and advice! It sounds like Revvy is passionate about hydrometer readings! ;). Seriously, good stuff Revvy...and on your blog post. So, I've god good news (and sorry that I didn't post sooner). My brew is happy! It took almost four days but the evening of the third...

I brewed Sunday night and I haven't taken another reading. If there is any fermentation going on...it is so little that it's not making the airlock bubble at all. I'm re-pitching today. Maybe I killed the yeast (poor little yeast...never had a chance) but I thought 80-degrees was ok.

Oh yeah...the temp now is around 74-76 degrees.

The temp of the wort was around 80-degrees, so think that would have been fine. There is no Krasuan forming yet. I plan on re-pitching tomorrow. I get my stuff local and not the mail.

I'm sure this isn't the first time this issues has come up and won't be the last here at HBT but after brewing my vanilla bean stout (vanilla bean to be added in the secondary...so it ain't in there yet) on Saturday evening, I'm not seeing Amy activity. This is my fifth batch (I hope I know...

Oh yeah...the 1gal bucket is my blow tube bucket, not the primary. My primary is a 6.5gal bucket.

So, I'm two days from brewing my second batch...it's a West Coast style porter, modeled after Black Butte Porter from Deschutes Brewery. (My first is in it's second week in the secondary and I'm planning on bottling this weekend!) Last night, I came home to find that the airlock on my primary...