Recent content by zaklee1020

Beersmith. The picture is from the mobile version but i made the recipe on the desktop version and ported it over

??? Ok ill re check my equipment and settings in beersmith. Thank you. I guess i just assumed it was ok this time it was spot on the last brew.

I checked the hydrometer in water and the reading was right where it was supposed to be. Thank you. I never thought about checking the actual recording device.

You might be right about it not being mixed. To address the top up water. The 3/4 was total. I added enough to get to my target of 3.5 gallons (1/4 gallon added). Hydrometer reading taken. Then the additional half gallon after that due to panic. I should have been more clear. Sorry

I actually tested it at 66. The wort chiller brought it down to that. Brought the volume up to the target volume and then took a reading.

I didnt check that. I will do. And thank you. The extra alcohol is definitely not a problem haha

I can not figure out what i did wrong. I followed my recipe to the letter and missed my gravity by 17 points. Target was 1.059 and measured gravity was 1.076. I added 3/4 of a gallon at the end to dilute that out a little bit. Resulted in a 4 gallon batch instead of a 3.5 gallon batch. Any ideas?

Fair enough. I have had some bottle bombs in the past went too low in my worry. Thought maybe the sugar i was using was causing a little more carbonation. I guess not baha. Ill get it right next time... Hopefully. I might open a few and add some more sugar and see what happens.

I bottled a standard bitter 3 weeks ago. I placed the amount of suger beersmith told me to in order to get 1.5 vols of carbonation. I was going for the low carbonation to try and match the style. I boiled the sugar and added it to the bottling bucket before racking the beer onto it. The beer...

I was. Thank you. I didnt even think about that.

It has been 3 weeks. I had one that was fine and one was flat. The stuff drops out when placed in the fridge. Thanks for the help

This weird film appears at the top of most of my bottles of beer after the conditioning process. 2 different types of beer. Both fermentations completed before i bottled and i believe a very sanitary process was used throughout. Is this normal or is it infected?

Thanks

And yeast suggestions. The person at the brew store told me Nottingham woukd be good for an english bitter

Ordinary bitter 3.5 gallon extract batch. 35 minute boil