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Hey all, In the next few weeks I am going to attempt a Gordon Biersch Marzen clone (I know, I know but taste is subjective)! However, I am fairly new to All-grain after making the switch from extract and I had some recipe questions. The pasted section below is from Dan Gordon's...

Awesome! Gonna pick one up today now. Thanks for the help.

So your not worried about overloading the voltage on the 308 with your freezer and the heating element? I thought the 308 was only rated to 110 volts? Wouldn't a 115 V freezer plus a heating element cause some overload? Thanks for your help

@inkbird So I bought a small 5 cu ft chest freezer. The specs say 115V, 1.69 A. I am looking to use the Inkbird ITC 308, but the specs for that say 110V. I would also like to wire in a small heating pad similar to the type used for growing plants. I'm worried about the voltage output and the...

Hmm, I'm by no means an expert, but I would say you should bottle. That's a pretty strong wit already. Maybe slightly undercarb during bottling. Just my 2 cents.

Yeah it was a 6 gallon batch, so I wasn't able to use my 5 gallon PET carboy to secondary. The bags are coconut flakes. My plan was to only let it sit in secondary for about 7 days to take on the coconut and vanilla flavors. Looks like I'm gonna be bottling a little sooner.

My original was 1.062. Both the OG and FG were the target gravities according to the recipe I built on brewersfriend.

I just took a sanitized spoon and skimmed off some of the stuff. It reminds me of the film that develops on the top of a soup if it sits without being stirred. Was this your experience?

So I checked the gravity.... and it hasn't budged since I checked it on Wednesday, the same day I added the coconut. It certainly looks like a good beer, it just has that smell and taste that is hard to describe. I'm gonna bottle and see how it goes.

I really hope it's all just nonsense! This is only my third brew so I don't have much experience. So what you're saying is that a lower gravity than previous might be more evidence of infection? Would this be from the bacteria or wild yeast further using sugars as food?

Yeah I can bottle tonight. I put the coconut in once I reached FG. I can definitely taste the coconut so it may be ready anyways. Maybe the slight sour taste is because the beer is still young?

Yeah the taste may be because the beer is still young maybe? It's been in the secondary with the coconut for about 5 days now and I can definitely taste the coconut. I REALLY want this beer to turn out. I've got almost $80 invested with the ingredients, vanilla, coconut, etc

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Just checked on my coconut porter and noticed what looks like a possible infection. It also has a "sort of" sour smell to it. I went ahead and tasted it as well. It definitely has a porter and coconut flavor but there is also a small sour taste as well. My wife tasted and got the same "sourish"...

I am almost two weeks into a vanilla coconut porter. What I did was get two vanilla beans, split them. scrape out the insides, and put it into a small mason jar with just enough vodka to cover the whole mess. I let that sit for about a week. At day 10 post brew, I transferred the beer into...

I too want to make the switch to all-grain, hopefully before the summer. I am a new brewer with 3, going on 4 extract brews under my belt. So far I have done a fairly good job of hitting my target OG and FG, improved my skillset and knowledge on each brew, and gained a huge appreciation for home...

Yeah that's what I was worried about as far as aroma and flavor. I called the shop and will switch out the hops for the German style. Last thing I want is to get a 5 gallon batch of brew that isn't quite what I wanted. Thanks for the reply!

Hey all. So I am preparing for brew day this weekend and I am going over my ingredients. I get to my hops and notice that the person helping me at my local brew shop threw in US tettnang hops, not German. The AA for the US is 6.4%, according to the package, and I know that the German is around...

Unfortunately the only carboy I have is capable of holding 5 gallons, and this current batch is 6. I do have a bottling bucket that I was going to use. I plan on racking from primary to the bottling bucket on top of the weighted bags of coconut, then let it sit for another 10-14 days or so.

Ah, yes. I see. I guess I was thinking that since ceramic is used to cook in it would be ok in the secondary. Stainless steel sounds like a better option. I see your location is Northern Virginia. I too live there. I'm in Fairfax county.