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Yeah, I've been sparging blind to pH, but I guess I should at least buy some strips. I've never been happy with glass electrodes, but it seems like I need some way to monitor my sparges. I do carefully monitor the temperature of my mash tun, and it was never over 170 F. I did perform two...

So yesterday, I brewed a saison with 9lbs of Belgian Pils. Right now it is fermenting rather violently (WLP566) and smells great, but I am worried that I may have oversparged and extracted some tannins. After I collected the runnings in my kettle, I gave it all a good stir and collected a...

Thanks to all the saison brewers that have replied! I think that I'll try 3711 for my first and swamp it at 80F r.t. All the talk about 3724 getting stuck at 1.030 is worrisome. As far as hops go, should I stick to European varieties (Styrian Golding and EKG seem like a common choices) or...

Much thanks. A question, though. Is it customary or necessary to use Brett with Wyeast 3724? Most of the saison recipes call for Wyeast 3711 which ferments at a lower temperature (that would necessitate me to use cooling for the entire fermentation, something I want to avoid). The ones...

So I want to brew a saison as my next beer in order to take advantage of my 80F room temperature. I have been reading recipes on hopville, but so far, I don't see too many similarities. Can anyone suggest a medium OG AG recipe that they had some success with? The only thing that I've...

I was expecting a little lower and set my IBU accordingly, but yeah, it's not a disaster. I am just curious why I got so much extraction and if I can expect the same efficiency in the future for this system. It would be lousy to undershoot a gravity on the basis of a fluke result.

Haha, it's wild right? I read about how important a rolling boil is, so I kept the gas flowing. Ended up burning about 1.4 gal of propane for the 90 min boil, plus heating the mash/sparge water. The kettle I'm using has a very wide mouth and it was windy to boot. My best guess is that this...

So I brewed my first all grain batch yesterday (2nd batch overall) and I have a question about my extraction efficiency. I was expecting an efficiency around 0.65-0.7 for this batch, but I seem to have gotten 0.87! I was batch sparging in a 5 gal Igloo MLT and collected 6.3 gal of wort with a...

Wow, thanks for the quick feedback guys! I really feel like it's all in my head, but it was worth getting some outside input. I've gotta say, this is the perfect hobby. Easy to learn, but difficult to master. All the ethanol is a nice byproduct, as well. (If one or more do pop, I'll post a...

Hello all, I am new to homebrewing and I just finished bottling my first extract beer. I am worried that I may have created bottle bombs, however. I am fermenting with Cooper's ale yeast. The beer is a light ale with an initial SG of 1.040 (measured with my hygrometer). I bottled...