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Batch 1: went right to the keg. Batch 2 is around 1.050 SG. Gonna add nutrient and DAP and warm it up if my heating belt ever shows up.

Been reading about clarifying. Would it be dumb to release the pressure on my keg, and add sparkolloid, and repressure it to clarify?

Temp is 68 on the stick on temp. The last batch I tried with this yeast stalled out at 1.05. It sounds like the light might be the way to go, to just get it ot the low end of the yeasts happy place? I've read a lot about this yeast lately and it sounds like it is prone to stalling and doesn't...

Thanks for all the answers. I'm starting to get a better feel for the whole process. You are spot on about the first reading at 1.08. I just ordered a heating belt also. The yeast I'm using likes 72-80 degrees and the best I can do in my house seems to be about 68.

Other stuff I'm reading here says to not move to secondary fermentor until SG is 1.00. How do you all take that reading? Pop the lid and drop a sanitized hydrometer in? Or pour out the bottom of the bucket to a flask and check?

bare with me, still reading: Just found this: The time to add an airlock , though, is when the real activity of the fermentation has subsided and the initial gravity reading has dropped to about 1.005. Before that time the yeast will be producing enormous amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and...

Ok, I've made a batch that was a learning experience. I'm trying again. I racked the first 5 gallons in a keg and am trying again. Didn't boil honey; used about 12 lbs of honey 5 gallons must Added gypsum, yeast nutrient and citric acid Used wlp730 yeast Airlock is bubbling at the...