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Thanks for setting me at ease. At this point I have only used the stirplate to make a starter from reused s-05. It did not follocate like this :) Cheers

Hello, Am making my second starter on a stir plate. I have a question. Details: - wort is just under 1.040, made with DME - Yeast is WLP002 -1.5 litre starter - pitched the yeast yesterday at 1pm. Within an hour of two of pitching it was bubbling.. By 5pm it was going full tilt. By this...

Both recipes were from the Brooklyn brew shop book. All grain recipes. Ferm temps are controlled in the mid 60s in a chest freezer. Yeast was notty (in the chocolate maple porter) and s04 (in the smores beer) Prior to these two I did a chestnut beer from the same book that turned out pretty...

Hey everyone, I made two 1 gallon batches for beer from grain. A smores beer and a chocolate maple porter. They were in the fermenter for 3 and 4 weeks respectively. I shook each to airate pre pitch, then pitched with a half pack of dry yeast (notty and s04 I believe). I bottled them a week...

It took me a while, but I finished up. I finally started this beer on December 9, 2014, and cracked my first bottle today. Between when I started this thread and made this beer I produced my first 2 AG beers in 1 gallon batches. I decided to run with that in my approach to modifying this beer...

Are the gravity readings higher than the expected terminal gravity? Could you have roused up the yeast cake a bit? Out of curiosity, what was your OG, goal terminal gravity, batch size and which yeast did you use?

If you are really worried, put the bottles in a plastic tote (like a Rubbermaid bin) during conditioning. That way if something goes wrong, no mess and no harm done.

+1 for BIAB If his oven can go as low as 150, he is laughing.. just put the pot into the pre-warmed oven for an hour.

Wait until I hit FG, then dry hop for prescribed period of time makes a lot of sense to me. Thanks. I'm a few weeks away from laying keel this one, but I have the time today to do the research :) Thanks for the replies.

Wow thanks for the quick replies. So basically the number of days isn't that relevant as long as primary is settled down? Or Am I targeting to put the hops in so that the number of days in the recipe lines up with target date for racking it out? (ex, say I want it in the primary for 3 weeks...

I have a quick question about dry hopping. I have a recipe that calls for it. I've read around and come up with great ways to add the hops (ex, in a bag with some marbles), but not a good explanation of how to read the recipe for timing of dry hopping. The recipe calls for "3.00 oz Citra...

Quick update on this.. I stirred it up and raised the temp from about 63F to 67. It started fermenting again slowly. I repitched it with another pack of the same yeast (S-05). The carboy at 1.018 bubbled mildly for 3 days and has stopped. I suspect its completed now. The two carboys...

I am thinking it might be worth while to repitch. I am worried about bottle bombs if it doesn't finish up nicely.

I set my temp controller for 68 F and opened the freezer overnight to let it start to rise. They are currently at about 65F and rising. I also opened up all three carboys last night and gave them a gentle stir to get the yeast cake roused up (being sure not to slosh around and bring oxygen into...

Congrats on your first brew!. Out of curiosity, what kind of beer are you making?

Check this link out.. Its a pretty good grounding in how to do an extract brew http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/index.html Good luck and have fun!

I think I will raise the temperature up to 67 F and see if it picks up. Do you think its worth giving the yeast cake a quick stir?

I made the same one on Dec 18th. I am fermenting it at a controlled 16.7 C (62 f?). Let us know how yours turned out. Mine is still mildly fermenting.

The beer is sitting at at about 63 F. They all went into cleaned and sanitized fermeters at the same time. No nutrient added. I also don't trust the refractometer. I just can't get a good sample out of the 1 gal carboy for the hydrometer :). The yeast was pitched, stirred and then it was...

I print out my recipes in beersmith, then fill in the blanks and write notes all over the page. Any place that something doesn't follow the exact recipe, I write a note (ex, mash in, mash out temps, etc). If anything strange happens, I note that as well. Basically, anything that does not go...