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Oh yeah, I stressed that yeast WAY too much to want to re-use it. Maybe I'll wait another week before racking it to the keg. I plan on ageing it until mid February and tasting it then. If it still needs some time I'll have to invest in another keg lol.

I brewed a tripel on the 18th of last month (~18 days ago), with wyeast 1214, with an OG of 1.10. I measured the gravity last night, 1.014. :drunk: The yeast flocculated a while ago, probably 5-7 days, and the wort is fairly clear. I'm using a fastferment, and there is significantly less...

Brewed this today with: 16 lbs pilsner 2 lbs munich 2 lbs candy sugar OG: 1.10. I used 2x wyeast 1214 with no starter. Pitched it at 64F--this is the first time I've cooled my beer down too much, I guess that's what happens when its 40 degrees outside and I'm brewing. I have it in a 75-80...

Now that I know I get 70% efficiency, I don't care about it anymore. That's good enough for me!

I was only worried because when I got 55% brew house efficiency, I'd need almost 50% more grain to match someone at 75%

Just shy of 70% mash efficiency this time. Not bad.

It was brew house efficiency. I'll know what my efficiency is for this batch ( mash efficiency) in another few minutes

Here is a picture of the grain crush, is it a good crush?

Awesome, thanks for the inputs. I ended up buying an extra 2 lbs of the base grain. The crush looked good to me, but I don't exactly know what I'm looking for :p. I think I'm fine with spending $2 more to get the extra grain.

I'll take a closer look at the grain when I get it today or tomorrow, see how well its crushed. I'll try to get a picture to get more opinions too. I only stirred my mash once at the start and once at the end, should I stir it more frequently? Also, how long should I wait after adding my...

Awesome resource, thank you!

No, I have my lhbs mill my grain, which is probably the biggest contributing factor. But an extra few dollars for an extra pound or two costs less than a mil. I'd need to do 50 batches before I made my money's worth

I'm about to do my second all grain brew. My first attempt left me with a brewhouse efficiency of 54%, with 19.5 lbs of grain (1.077 og). I mashed with 6.5 gal at 150 for 60 min and did a single batch sparge with 3.75 gal. My next AG recipe calls for 17.25 lbs of grain, which, at a 1.3 qt/lb...

After drinking my hydrometer sample I'm leaning towards this... mmm... And plus, its already at ~10% alcohol.

So I brewed an imperial russian stout ~3 weeks ago. I found an all grain recipe, and converted it to an extract/partial mash recipe. The OG came out to 1.098, and right now its stuck at 1.030. There hasn't been any activity in the past week, and its clear. I used: 10 lbs light DME (instead of...