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Hello and welcome from just up the interstate. Manitowoc area. The people on this site are super helpful and friendly from my findings. Plus there is literally an S* ton of things to learn/do/experiment with here. Enjoy. - Prosit! :tank:

Hello and welcome from just up the interstate. Manitowoc area. The people on this site are super helpful and friendly from my findings. Plus there is literally an S* ton of things to learn/do/experiment with here. Enjoy. - Prosit!

Hello and welcome from just up the interstate. Manitowoc area. The people on this site are super helpful and friendly from my findings. Plus there is literally an S* ton of things to learn/do/experiment with here. Enjoy. - Prosit! :mug:

Hello and welcome from just up the interstate. Manitowoc area. The people on this site are super helpful and friendly from my findings. Plus there is literally an S* ton of things to learn/do/experiment with here. Enjoy. - Prosit!

Yooper and everyone else. Thanks. Tonight I ended the mystery/experiment. I ended up with 1.008 as a FG. Outstanding as far as I'm concerned. Lesson learned; both the refractometer and hydrometer have their places...apparently they both need to be used to gain OG and FG. The taste is...

Thank you Yooper. I guess I never thought of it that way. I will take another reading tonight before/during kegging. I sure hope it is lower than .24 (but either way, i'm guessing it's done). :)

Yooper, Actually, I am using a refractometer. I have one that does brix and gravity. I used to use a hydro but switched a few months back. And I do make sure it's calibrated about every two/three batches. Why do you ask? Am I doing something wrong?

Still sitting at .24 after a few days at 71ish. Going to keg it tonight and use this as an informative lesson learned.

Got mine today. Awesome...thanks Blichmann.

I have swirled the yeast twice now since rasing to 70-71 F. I took a reading tonight and came in at 1.024. More to come.....

I have a few days before I will take another reading. But, riderkb, I did in fact oxygenate. I think my mistake was putting the sugar in post chill and pre pitch. If so, lesson learned....I'm just hoping to salvage at this point.

Ramped the freezer up to 70F last night. Giving it until tonight to "stabilize". Hope this cleans this up.....

Balrog, These days in WI, the ambient is lucky to reach the middle 50's. Gets down to low 40's overnight lately. I think I will ramp it up and let the paint can heater work a bit harder to maintain. Prosit :mug:

Thanks everyone. When it is discussed to raise the temp...are you looking at a slow increase as 2-3 degrees a day? Or more of a straight up to 70? And then let it sit 4-5 days at that temp? Also, since if it still is going to ferment out, it will generate heat (albeit a little) so should...

Hello, Just looking for a little advice here...not a right way/wrong way discussion on my brewing skills. Thanks. :drunk: I made JZ's Cream Ale on 10/7. Came in at 1.050 as suggested. I followed the recipe to the letter, with the EXCEPTION of i forgot to add the sugar to the mash. So...

I can't say that i disagree with your statement porter, but, i did a little bit of reading around before brewing this. I also looked at Beersmith, brewtoad, and brewers friend just for cross reference. It seemed that a very good portion of the clones/variations of JZ's recipe all have some...

Will do bowtie. I have never added sugar to a mash or fermenter before. I also have never made a Cream Ale, but, it seemed easy enough.....until :) I do also agree that I hope it dries it out a little. Results to follow....

I actually made this same recipe a few days ago. Tried to do it straight from the book, per Jamil's "directions". I believe in there it calls for .75lb of sugar in the mash....so i don't think you did anything wrong there. I did that as well, except I forgot to add it to the mash. It was a...

I have a similar freezer and wish to attempt at doing a similar build (and not butcher/dishonor Jester too badly). Can someone send me the sketch up files? Thanks. BTW, Sorry i'm late to the party....this will be my second keezer/kegerator as my first one recently passed. And thanks to...

Still nothing in my mailbox either. I do know of two other people who "signed" up for this. 1 is in the same boat I/we are....the other received his almost instantly! (we are debating a hostile takeover to obtain the goods - mwah hah aaa) **Perhaps if we keep this thread alive we can get...