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Just added 2 vanilla beans today that were split, scraped, and sitting in a few ounces of vodka. Took a gravity reading and the FG was right on target. The sour smell is no longer there. It smells like beer! I'm currently drinking my uncarbonated sample and it is actually pretty good. Thanks for...

I bought beersmith 2 from Google play store for $6 or $7. I haven't used it yet because I got a few kit beers for chistmas I have to brew first. But I've tinkered with it and it seems pretty good.

OK. I will wait a few days. Thanks everybody for the help and advice.

Will do. Thank you.

Yeah, its hard to control the temp. I have it in a fridge and I'm having to manually control the temp. I check on it 3 times a day and unplug the fridge as needed.

I did let it splash around quite a bit when I put it in the fridge. I had to move the fridge around while it was in there so I'm sure it sloshed around a good bit.

I rehydrated and pitched yeast Sunday at noonish. Here it is Monday at 4:00 pm and realized I forgot to aerate. Fermentation temp is about 58 degrees. I pitched at 68 degrees. There is no activity in air lock. Is it too late to aerate?

I believe this recipe makes 3 gallons as is. I wouldn't change it too much.

That's sounds a lot like what the guy at the store told me. (And he got to use his own nose) so I would say you made a pretty good diagnosis with the little information that you had. I appreciate your help and the others who told me to hold off on dumping the batch. I'm just going to let this...

Haha. I took a sample to the LHBS and I expected a fancy machine that would tell me the Ph, specific gravity and a whole bunch of other scientific information. Nope. It was a guy that smelled and tasted my beer and told me what he thought lol. Basically he said it was still a little young and it...

Duly Noted, but in the case of the possibly sour beer and the beer I just brewed, I will be flavoring in secondary. One with vanilla beans, and one with cocoa nibs.

Idk. Its all I've ever done. Why not?

I just put it in the secondary today. Still had a sour smell. I put a sample in a jar to take to the LHBS tomorrow. They said they could analyze it somehow. When I sniff in the secondary I still smell the sourness, but its nowhere near as strong. Just brewed another kit tonight and some of the...

OK so that's out of the question. I guess I will need to do as Thunder Chicken suggested and put it in the fridge and unplug it. I've already brewed it tonight and will be pitching yeast in the morning. I guess ill go ahead and put it in the fridge tonight. Thanks for the help everybody. I just...

I'm going to LHBS tomorrow. Is there a different yeast I could use that would work at about 70 - 75? It would be much easier.

That will probably be the cheapest way for me. Definitely not the easiest.

I don't think the weather will be sufficient enough to put outside here. I have a fridge outside but I don't think I can get the temp above 48.

Any suggestion on how to keep it cool? Our house stays at about 70 degrees. I can try to endure the fight with SWMBO for maybe a week and go to 68.

Just curious... what is BJCP?

That is a great deal of help. Wow!! I wasn't expecting to get this much help. Thank you so much.