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Bobby is a great standup guy, and I see customer service is top rate as well! I'm glad your dilemma is resolved, my rule for my brew equipment and most other things is preventive maintenance rules the day. I'd rather maintain than repair.

I once took a hydrometer reading of my cottage house saison, after the reading I drank the sample... To be sure I was reading the hydrometer correctly I took another reading, annnnnd..... after 5 more I was getting pretty buzzed off flat hydrometer samples. Damn that beer is good!

Glad to hear you love it! I have a running theme whit most of my recipes I post here and elsewhere, I adhere to the KISS method, Keep It Simple Stupid! The more going on in a beer the more things seem to get muddled and vague.

I started out all grain brewing, never done an extract brew in my life outside of a yeast starter.

That sounds interesting, post your results when it finishes out.

I can't wait to revisit this one myself, it will be a new brew in essence, a new state, new water, different temp swings, it's gonna be awesome!!!!!!!

The 3711 yeast is a beast, and has never failed to chew down a recipe to 1.00x in rapid time, but when I've used other saison yeasts sometimes I get stall out, slow as hell fermentation, finishing up higher than expected.... It's why I went with the 3711 in the first place. @MrFeltimo @inkman15...

So did you pull the cover yet?

Have you checked gravity? You may be just out gassing absorbed co2 from fermentation. Get a gravity number, check again in a few days and if it's the same, it's good to go!

You could mash slightly lower, that would be fine

I have an igloo ice cube square cooler, I drilled and filled the hollow lid with expanding foam, that combined with preheating the cooler with scalding hot tap water before doughing in works great for me, I drop 1degree in an hour during the winter here in Chicago in my garage.

My big question is how your other batch went south? Has your equipment been replaced/boiled? Id hate to see another batch down the tubes because of sanitation problems

I tried to register so I could comment on the college brewery, wouldn't let me register........

You are only a half lb over on each item. My thought would be to bump up the two row a pound or pound and a half to try and balance it out, your og will go up a good bit, but hey it's not the end of the world!

There have been so many substitutions in the course of this thread, I've used EKG, but I do love the spice notes of saaz.... And the citrus notes in any of the c-hops could be nice...

This one is coming up in my brew list soon!!!

Orange blossom honey and grains of parAdise can both be purchased on Amazon. My last bag of grains of paradise came from my local grocery store, they are a specialty shop with a few sales for each global areas unique foods.

Regular honey and black pepper should be fine, I mix and match quite often myself, and living in Illinois now my access to orange blossom honey is scaled waaaay back over Arizona

Bottle from under the ook, carb em up and refrigerate those bad chickens! If it's infected, refrigeration will slow the issue, if it's yummy, knock em back!

30 seconds???? You sandbagging? We had one at grandmas, at other grandmas, at the cabin, at sister in laws, seemed nobody could set one up themselves, so I got to do it..... Endlessly