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also, how do you know fermentation is complete? and is it necessary to cold crash once you've determined that you're done fermenting? How do you cold-crash in that case...

A little off-topic but I was wondering if I could use this as a Fermenter? How do I fit an airlock on this? Does anybody have any experience with similar jars being used as fermenters...

Yeah I'm not opening the lid for another week. I don't know what yeast I've got honestly. Just glad that it's working. Okay now the recipe requires dry hop after 5 days. How do I do it? Should I just dump the pellets in the bucket or use a bag or something? Also are there any sanitation...

So i've been told that it is not infected. And there are yeast rafts floating on top of the beer. I'm gonna wait for a week and then check the gravity again. Also you're probably right about air escaping from the sides of the bucket. Should I stick some tape all over the sides of the lid to...

Been almost 36 hours since I pitched the yeast, and there is no activity in the airlock. So I opened the lid of the Fermenter to see this. Is it infected? I had checked once yesterday and there was a green layer on top which has disappeared now.

Hello guys, I have a couple of questions :) Can Star-San and PBW be included with checked-in luggage? I'm planning to ask my brother to bring it to India from the US. Also how many beer cans could he possibly carry with him? And lastly, please suggest good IPAs from the Boston area...

Great then, i'll get a 1 KG bag of this. Should last me for 2 brews atleast. I'll probably play safe and limit the oats to 10% this time. I'll try to increase the quantity seeing how this one plays out :)

This is the Quaker pack i was talking about -...

Okay so I'm trying to play around with the Grain Bill for my 5 Litre (1.32 Gal) IPA and this is what I've come up with :- Pale Ale 2-Row - 1 KG (2.2lb) - 64.52% Wheat Malt - 0.4 KG (0.88lb) - 25.81% Rolled Oats - 0.15 KG (0.33lb) - 9.68% I decided to keep the oats under 10% after reading this...

I am using Brewers Friend :) I'm gonna look for some Malted Wheat in my nearest brewpub. Thank you so much.

That makes a lot of sense to me. Once it starts boiling, I will lower the heat just about to maintain a consistent boil all the while keeping an eye on the evaporation rate. My heat source is a house-hold gas stove. There is no vent or vapor suction. But there is an exhaust fan, which I keep...

Thanks for all the advice, guys! So I'm almost ready to go at it again within a couple of days. The grain bill I had used initially made for a really dull dark copper brown-ish color. Which malt can I use with the Pale Ale to maybe get a bright yellow color? And in what proportion for a 5L...

I did dump the entire batch :( I guess intermittent top-up of hot/boiling water is the way to go for me

Yessir! I made sure not to pulverize the grains. I'll try with smaller amount of grains per batch in the Food Processor. That might increase the time spent in Milling, but atleast i'll get better efficiency. I hope :/

That helped immensely! Thank you so much. So I live basically at mean sea level (or a few feet above since this being a coastal city). I will try 30 minutes of covered simmer followed by 30 mins of open boil. The off-centering of the Pot is something I would never have come up with :) ...

The water I used was from branded locally available UV & RO treated Cans. I will look into adding Campden tablets for my next brew. Thanks.

I used short 1-second pulses on the food processor to ensure the grains did not turn into flour. But yes, the size of the milled grain wasn't consistent by any means. So after an Iodophor dip, wouldn't rinsing with ordinary water re-introduce some unwanted juju into your stuff? I will switch to...

I used a Food Processor to mill the grains and got a pretty decent mill. Not sure about the efficiency though since I was anyway going to BIAB. Maybe I'll reduce the grain bill by a few hundred grams each and see how that works out.

What happened was I kept waiting for a rolling boil on my kitchen stove. Ended up boiling for nearly 2 hours and forgot to check the OG before pitching yeast :( I will follow the 60 minute boil with late hop additions for flavor. I'm just not sure how good a boil I will get on my kitchen stove...

Hey guys, long time lurker but first time poster here. I recently had my first ever brewday, where I brewed a 5L IPA using Cascade & Citra but somewhere the whole process went horribly awry and I ended up with an OG waaaay above what was required. So, now I am ready to go at it again but felt I...