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I'm glad to hear that this looks "normal". I've had a couple batches develop this exact same look and feared that they were infected. The stuff that in on the surface never grew into a film and the beers all turned out good with no off flavors. But still, I'm confused as to why some of them...

Buy a 3rd vial, aerate like crazy and pitch. Look into making a simple starter next time, all it takes is some wort and a jar. Much cheaper that way.

It could be, although I do scrub with PBW, rinse, and then soak all my brewing items in a fresh 5 gallon bucket of Starsan for the entire brew day, then add a couple gallons to the carboy, shake like hell to coat, then rack onto the foam, honestly I don't fear the foam;)

Believe me, I understand and agree with what you are saying here. But with my dubbel (which got over a pint of 2 week old starsan in it) the problem only appeared after the suckback occurred and my current batch only shows signs where the starsan fell into the carboy (right under the neck). I...

That's kinda what I was afraid of but its more of an unconsolidated oil slick with small white-ish areas. I will Try to get a photo of it later. I was just hoping it was Starsan floating on top!

Odd thing has happened to my last 2 batches. I made a dubbel 3 wees ago, left it attached to a blowoff in my ferm chamber. The beer finished fermenting and was perfectly clear, I let it sit for another week and at some point at least a pint of Starsan from my blowoff got sucked back into the...

Mephaddict from Avery.

Solder the vertical tube from the bottom to the top and bottom coils, that's what I did and it worked great.

Agreed, I'd much rather spend my money on something that will improve the quality of my beer. It's all about making the yeast happy, pitch rate, temp control, good yeast starters, and oxygen. If you do those things the beer will take care of itself. I have a mill and it's nice but if I had to...

Is that an oldschool stir plate or something?

Another problem may be that you don't have the magnets' polarity correct on the fan. If you have both of them oriented the same it will throw the bar every time, I learned this the hard way.

Could a person get away with using Starbucks Via? I have been considering adding some to my priming sugar solution at bottling time.

I do some climbing and skiing. In fact it was my visits to Colorado that introduced me to craft beer and eventually homebrewing.

Oskar Blues Ten Fidy or Tallgrass Velvet Rooster!

Southwest corner of the state for me.

I started a thread yesterday for just this reason:mug: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/upgrade-order-importance-306089/

Thanks for the discussion, everybody! I just started all grain, so water conditioning is going to become a factor soon, I just wanted to do a few with filtered tap water first to see what they come out like. And I completely forgot about the digital scale, I couldn't make it through a brew day...

I thought it would be helpful to have a list of upgrades in order of importance for the new brewer looking to make better beer, without wasting money on unnecessary equipment (like investing in a grain mill before controlling fermentation temps). Feel free to explain why you feel one is more...

Add some simple sugar, Jamil suggests this frequently to lower gravity.

My first BIAB with Northern Brewer's standard crush got ~85% efficiency, I was impressed to say the least.