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My water here in TX is very similar to yours. My lighter beers had astringency and aftertaste issues until I got the HCO3 below 80. I used the ez water calculator and diluted with distilled water to get that down. I do not recommend the 5.2 stuff. I add calcium chloride, gypsum, acid malt and...

Look through James Spencers podcasts/videos Basic Brewing I remember him doing either an all rye or all wheat or maybe both experiment.

Keg lube worked on the grommets and it was sealed tight. Just racked second lager to keg. Was able to hold 50° for 4 days and slowly ramp up to d rest rest at 66. Overall the project at this point is a success. Planning on adding the ss brewtech valve with racking arm next. I have read some...

Nil, Look into acidulated malt. I use acid malt and hit mash ph most the time. Then I add lactic acid to my sparge water for its ph adjustment. Works real well for me. I use the ez water spreadsheet for calculations

+1 on bringing down that bicarbonate. The lighter beers that I brewed before I got the bicarbonate below 65 all had astringency if I sparged. THe BIAB beers were OK. YMMV

Did it take off 5150?

Ive never used it either. I have had Bry97 and WLP400 take this long to take off before. Id give it 24 more hours before pitching something else. Hope it takes off for ya!

Did you check it with a hydrometer? That is a top ferrmenting ale yeast. It may be getting ready to take off.

Doesnt look like mold to me. Has the gravity gone down?

I stopped pitching lager yeast that warm due to esters. I would have to warm it up for a whole week for the yeast to clean up. Did you let the temp rise a few days when it was about half way done fermenting? Did it lager a few weeks before you put gas on it?

Update. I had no airlock action because one of the rubber grommets was cut and leaking. Planning to use keg lube on the grommets this weekend for the second use. Going to keg whats in it and rack onto the trub of this beer and shoot for a 50 deg ferment temp.

Made my first plates this year. Have 2 samples so far. The nice ladies in our lab at the hospital taught me streaking technique

Amazing!

Most enjoyed it. It was a WLP810 fermented at 59 deg so it was something most of my friends never had before (the ones not familiar with homebrew). Pale malt, carapils and crystal 15. It was pretty clean with just a touch of fruity esters. I never let it warm up. That was the second lesson...

What diameter tubing? What is the diameter of the coil? How many feet is it?

It was lovingly referred to as the phone book beer. My friends drank it even after I warned them it could have foreign materials

+1 on the cereal killer! I dont plan my brews as well as the OP. I wake up and decide wow I wanna do a porter today. I millthe grain and do it. acidrain I just googled fiftypoundsack and it took me to rebel brewing. The shipping wasnt free. Is there a secret to free shipping?

The phone book was ruined. The beer was fine. No gushers. I couldnt believe it. I got a lot of flack from my lady for the SPLASH mess! She got over it as soon as it was time to make cysers again. I use a plastic doorstop to tip the carboys now, and a lid on the bucket with a hole for the racking...

My first wit came out really good considering all the trouble I had with it. First I was having mash temp troubles. Dont remember the details but I ended up with all my water in the mash tun like doing no sparge or BIAB with a false bottom instead of a bag. My gravity came in lower than...

This happened during my first lager. A phone book I was using to tip my carboy for racking into my bottling bucket fell into the bucket when the carboy got down to about a gallon. Thought for sure it was ruined. Came out fine.