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Why secondary? Mines staying in the primary for two weeks. Getting dry hopped for 5 days after that. Then taken down to the basement for a 24hr semi cold crash to get it all to drop out. Secondarys are overrated.

Day 2 and my ice bath got down around 60 last night with too much ice. My bubbler has all but stopped but I'm still seeing yeast work and bubbles rise....has to be a leak somewhere.

Mines in a bath right now at 62-64f and im thinking after vigorous fermentation is over i will stop adding ice to take it to 65-66 then remove it from the bath and finish the last week at 69-70. Im dry hopping wtih el dorado which can be fruity. I like fruity sweet so well see how she goes.

What shape is the bottom of your kettle or whirlpooling pot. I have a brew kettle then a flat bottle taller less diameter pot I whirlpool in. I screwed up my first whirlpool so don't feel bad. One day I'll have a nice brew kettle where I can whirlpool a hop addition and pull off with a valvle...

I've got the grain for a 2.5 gallon batch of this ready to go. I made a few changes tho. I upped the SG to 1.055 Boil 60 Amarillo at 50 .3g 7c's at 30 .25g Simcoe 5 .5g Simcoe 0 .5g M44 yeast Transfering it into a small 16qt stainless kettle right at flameout and putting that in a 5 gallon...

Half a different ipa/pale/stout/porter/hef every night or other night. Me and the wife are either splitting a home brew or something i picked up at the local growler pub. For every new brew we try we put the bottle on the cabinet above the sink. Up to 25+ now. Favorite so far. Wyld from Uinta...

Can someone scale this to 3 gallons. Ive got the grains figured out in WORT on my phone but i want to get the hop additions corrects. Grams are greek to me ;)

Its happening to me right now with the same yeast. 2row/munich20/crystal60/wheat malt/carafoam AG @ 1.056 and after 10days in and it looks like picture perfect krausen but none of the bubbles are popping. I'm taking the 1st gravity reading tonight but I don't think its done yet. My airlock is...

My first batch was tart. I think it was my pH. I used 5.2 in my second batch so we'll see in a few weeks. I'm moving to starters anyway...I hate the lag time especially if you under pitch dry.

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Not the first time. I dry pitched and didn't areate enough. The gravity isn't super high so there was some o2 in there already and like I said it probably would have eventually started but I wanted to be certain. I did with the second pack. 3gal in a 5gal bucket and I'm bubbling every 4-5...

Again thank you everyone. Seeing those signs of fermentation are like natural xannax to a new brewer ;) Cheers!

Yea I hope no bugs got in there and the 18hrs it sat don't throw any "offness" to it. I'm feeling better now that I can see karusen through the bucket with a flash light and this morning it was gassing even more. I'm gonna take a gravity reading at 18 days then 19 then dry hop for 5 more maybe.

UPDATE: So I checked the fermenter after 18 hours and there were no signs of it starting. No krausen no bubbles no airlock activity. I think it would have started eventually but that half pack or less of 05 was 2 weeks+ old and I probably under pitched like a mofo. I dry pitched BTW. So... I...

I think a reason I don't have vigorous fermentation yet is because I didn't oxygenate the wort enough. I wisked it for 10 seconds or so and pitched.

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No dry hop for 5 days after 25. But now knowing that maybe I should dry hop after 15-18 days then dry hop for 5. I only have one bucket so I'm gonna dry hop in my primary. I just want my yeast to clean things up. PS: I used enough starsan to clean my house. I'm not worried about infection.

I planned on 30 days in the primary. Dry hop at 25. Thanks for all the help y'all! My 2nd batch here. I did a 1gal and pitched slightly lower (70f) and it tasted ok when I bottled.

Half a pack of 05 to 3gal is under pitched??? I can get another pack today if more would help.

Brewed right at 3 gal last night. Its an IPA and my SG was 1.056. I had half a pack of Safeale 05 that I had sealed properly from 2 weeks ago. I dont have a wort chiller and it was getting late ). I had to be at work in 30 mins and my ice bath wasn't working fast enough. Soooo...I pitched at...