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I ordered it from more beer already milled - so I'm honestly not really sure. May be time to invest in a grain mill soon...

I'm also trying to figure out where I went wrong. I think my strike water may have been too high - close to 168ish - would that have had a huge impact on the yield?

Sorry - it was the AG version. Yep - it has plenty of color, but the gravity just isn't there. I'll seal it and throw it in the fridge overnight until I can get the extract tomorrow morning

Long story short - I did a BIAB with this recipe today - http://www.morebeer.com/products/oatmeal-stout-grain-beer-kit-advanced.html The recipe says you can expect 1.050-1.060 ish or so... I got 1.027... No idea how it hit that low. My last BIAB with the same setup hit right on the money. So...

Strangest thing... I just switched air locks on a whim and it's magically going to town. Still no krausen and the bubbles are the same, but the airlock is flying all of a sudden. I've looked at the old one and can't find any cracks - really weird.

Yeah - I've definitely got bubbles forming and moving around and stuff, but it's definitely strange that it's going so "slow" for Notty. The last time I used it in a cider it absolutely ripped through it. I'm halfway tempted to try switching to something else like s-05 if it doesn't finish...

Yeah - I have quite a bit because I wasn't sure how much krausen I was going to get and wanted to eliminate the chance for a blowoff. So, I've got about 4.5 gallons in a 5G carboy

So - I brewed this last Sunday exactly as detailed on the first page. Pitched Nottingham that afternoon. 4 days later and there has been absolutely zero krausen and no airlock activity - but a gravity reading has seen it drop from 1.052 to 1.03. Anything I should be concerned about - or just...

Have 5 gallons of this going now - can't wait to see how it turns out! It's been fermenting for about 3 days and it actually is starting to smell like blue moon! Also - just stumbled on this... looks like Wayne's story checks out! http://www.millercoorsblog.com/brewing/homebrew-tips/...

I'm a fairly new Brewer and have been experimenting with wine, cider and am doing my first biab this weekend. Found out today that I just won a $100 gift card to my lhbs and was curious what I should get. Here's my current equipment: 2 x 7 gallon buckets 4 x 5 gallon better bottles 4 x 1...

Really thinking about trying this out this week. Biggest decision is whether I should do a 5G or 1G batch. I'd hate to do a 1 gallon and find out that it's delicious in two years and only have a few bottles ready - but I'm also hesitant to tie up a 5g carboy for that long. So many decisions!

1 gallon Joes Quick Grape 775

It's still got a little while to go, but my JAOM cleared about a week ago after only a month. It's so pretty! It's gonna be all I can do to hold off on this. Better start another one asap.

Sorry for the delay in responding - been a crazy week at work. So, I got back on Sunday night and the pumpkin concoction had dropped to 1.034. Left it for two more days hoping it'd get down to 1.02 or a little lower, but it didn't move at all. Racked to a 1 gallon secondary and have been cold...

1.05 as of this afternoon, so I'm going to let it ride while I'm out of town tonight and tomorrow and hope it doesn't get away from me before I get back. Took another small taste today and I still really like it. Even at room temperature it still had a pretty solid body to it. Hoping I come...

Couple quick snapshots of how it's looking...

Update: 24 hours after pitching, and fermentation is going fast and furious. OG was 1.079, and already down to 1.054. Hydrometer sample was delicious, and best of all, had a very good mouth feel - something I think has been lacking in my ciders so far. Looks like all that pumpkin meat is...

That's an awesome idea! How cool would it be to show up to a Halloween party with a pumpkin cider being served out of a pumpkin?? If the tap or spigot didn't work, you could always just keep it cool and ladle it out like a punch bowl...Although, I think I'd probably want to clean out way...

I basically just put the lid of the pumpkin back on. It isn't air tight, but it's tight enough to keep bugs out - and since I'm only keeping it in the pumpkin for primary, the c02 from the fermentation should push the oxygen out. I thought about sealing it with wax and then drilling a hole for...