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Great job - nicely done.

65 - 70degs is optimal for that yeast per White Labs. That said, I've yet to see a White Labs yeast that wouldn't work efficiently a couple degrees under or above the range. If you are used to dry yeast, did you make a starter. If not, you may be experiencing a very long lag time...

I have another thread going regarding this brew, but more geared towards my process and not the components of the recipe. Placing this in the appropriate forum - hope this is correct. Brewed this yesterday. The recipe came from Beer & Brewing Magazine and is from Neil Fisher, head brewer of...

Talk to some of your local Micro's. Good chance they have a busted keg laying around and would be happy to help a Home Brewer. I got mine that way and paid $40.

My volume was spot on - 5.5Gals, and my grains were crushed at a LHBS - Home Brew USA.

Well, it has been a most interesting Brew Day. Confused about a few things and learned a few things. Mashed in at 1qt/lb and hit target temp 155(f). pH was good so I let it do it's thing for 60mins. Vorlauff'ed twice to get clear wort, started my Fly Sparge (5.4gal @170degs) and collected my...

Altering my water profile has always seemed very complicated and intimidating but would love to master it. That said, I got tired of buying 9 gallons of spring water from the store every time I brewed and bought an inline water filer and a potable water grade hose for my outside tap. Any...

Thanks for all the feedback. With the ABV being so high I don't want a very dry beer and would like a bit of sweetness, which should go good with the Cacao Nibs and the Vanilla Bean I'll add after fermentation is complete. Not sure I will do a second runnings batch if its going to lack...

So in your first suggestion - once I've collected all my wort in my brew kettle for the first batch, how long should I wait before flame on. Sounds interesting but wouldn't the enzymes be halted by the sparg process if at the correct temperature?

I am brewing a big Imperial Stout tomorrow. Grain bill attached. Due to the amount of grain I'm using, I think I can get a second batch out of it - maybe 3 or 4 gallons for a 4 to 5% abv Session Stout. Was thinking that after I've collected all the wort I need for my first boil (5.5gal...

I combined a White Labs Farmhouse yeast with Belgian Saison yeast in a 2 liter flask one time. Thought I had plenty of head space - only to wake up the next morning to a very messy counter top. Stuff went crazy. Very thick yeast running down the flask and yeast liquid all over the place...

Saw this on Beer Smith and will be my next brew - cant wait!! I would like to bump the ABV up a bit and was thinking of going +2 on the base malt to 10lbs. Other than the ABV do you see this dramatically impacting any other characteristic?

Brewed a 5gal Saison 17 July. Aerated for 20mins with an aquarium pump and good stone and then pitched a 1.4L WLP-565 starter into the 72deg wort. Lag time was ~12hrs and then it took off. After that, I began to raise the temp until I reached 83degs and there it sat. Left for vacation 23...

Are you sure it's yeast and not grain residue? Being yeast I would think taste and smell would be off - being very yeast forward. If it is yeast, I hope you didn't got too heavy with the priming sugar - you may have some bottle bombs just waiting to shoot off. :-( Some yeast take longer to...

Put together a 1.4L starter for my Saison brew day tomorrow.

40gal total - 10gal Russian Imperial Stout - 5gal Pliny the Elder Clone - 10gal Kolsch - 5gal English Pale Ale - 5gal Baltic Porter - 5gal Saison Brewday tomorrow - Belgian Saison

Like (probably) many on here, I started with kits, then did a few BIAB - my kettle was 8gal and most batches put me up to the rim. BIAB was an order of magnitude better than the kits - made a Kolsch that was spot on and a couple others. I also had some that were off as well. Then, I moved to...

Thanks everyone - that was the issue. Recently brought a refracto recently and been using it to ensure my end of runnings and pre-boil numbers are on target, but didn't realize fermentation FG would be skewed due to the presence of alcohol. Used a hydro this morning and I am at 1.010. :-)...

Refractometer

Brewed a 5gal batch of a simple all grain summer Ale 6/24/16. 7lb 10oz 2 Row 2lb Vienna Malt 8oz Cara-Pils Mashed for 60mins at 145degs w/fly sparge at 165degs Pre-boil gravity = 1.037 OG = 1.050 (my target) - 60min boil Aerated wort for 20mins using aquarium pump with good stone...