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Alright I pre boiled my water to find boil off rate. 1.85g/hr. so preboil is gunna be 7.57gal. If this seems too high someone please lemme know. Start the brew at 8am tommorow woohoo.

Hey braze, what was your fg on this stuff. Mines around 1.05 but she's still pretty syrupy.

It ferments very slow and calm. No blowoff.

Mine sounded like pop in a glass. And take a SG reading. It goes slow and doesn't show much action.

Not to beat a dead horse but ya thats where the volume changes, if you put trub loss to 0 then the estimated preboil is the same as what you entered. Anywho, im gunna boil off for an hour and find my boil off volume, then go from here. Is there a reason you didn't allow for trub loss in your pre...

OK, after looking back n forth and back n forth..... I see that the extra .5 gallons comes in effect at the trub loss, with your 5.85 gallons your final bottled ammount (after trub loss) seems to be 4.5 gallons. as where if it was the calculated ammount 6.36 gallons, there would be 5 gallons...

hey thanks for the quick reply yooper, these threads must keep you busy! Ya ive got a new pot just last week, only done coopers type kits before this. Anyways ya i could fill er up and boil it for an hour, whatever that is plus the trub loss ect should be my preboil?

Well im just messing around till my first day off work when I'm going to brew this. I saved the fizzy yellow beer beersmith file and put all the same ingredients in as was in the original. Matched everything else the same as well. Now I see that the preboil volume differs quite a bit and...

I pitched the starter after about 4 hours. But I'm impatient. Couldn't hurt to leave it and do it the next day.

Just got all the ingredients for this beer today. This'll be my first AG woohoo. Thanks for the easy recipe Yooper! As I'm a self admitted BMC drinker I'm hopin this will ease me into the world of "good tasting beer". We will see...

Did you make a starter. I pitched a pack of EC1118 and nothing. Made a quick starter with same yeast and some sugar and apple juice. She took off in 2 hours.

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From experience I tried a full pack of yeast and it wouldn't take off. I'd make a starter with sugar (I also threw in apple juice) and after that gets going add about 100ml of the recipe ingredients at a time every couple hours. After you get a litre or so and it's going good, then add it to...

Wow thanks for the quick response. This'll be in the mail ASAP. Other quick question is what is the difference that the USA seller is selling his for 200$ more then the china one? Comes with a free old fashioned or something?

So this controller turns power off to heater or fridge? But isn't it bad to plug/unplug/plug a fridge in to short of time. Bad for compressor I thought? Anyone cooked a compressor using this?

should be around 1.112

Went from 1.112 to 1.090 in 2 days. Now she's creeeeeepin along with almost no change per day. Gunna leave it be for a couple weeks and see where it's at.

I used EC 1118. The recipe uses ALOT of sugar. The acidic nature of the lemon is supposed to kill off the yeast early. But it doesn't always. Then you get high abv. So I'm just kinda being ready for worst case. After reading more I've got an idea. Gunna cold crash at right abv. Let it clear...

Ya if it stops the ferment. This recipe can apparently get a little carried away and go upwards of 15%+. Just wanna be prepared for the worst. If I back sweeten do I just add sugar to taste then bottle and pasteurize when ready?

Hey all. I've read a handful of pages here. Great stuff! If its already been asked then I apologize but I couldn't find it. Anyways here's my question. I'm making a hard lemonade and don't want it to go past about 9%. Will this method work for the hard lemonade? I want to carb it in bottle then...