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I'm brewing a pretty standard porter recipe. It's been in the primary for exactly a week. I decided to take a hydrometer reading and everything seems to be going great on that front. However, the color is very light. more of an amber color than a nice dark porter. It also had the nice roasty...

I posted earlier about some temp issues during primary fermentation. Too cold at first then warmed it up. Had great fermentation and saw lots of bublbles but then warmed it up perhaps a bit much. Probably closer to 80. Thought I had maybe killed the yeast but most of the fine folks here...

I actually don't see ANY gas going through the airlock. This is troubling...

Thanks for your responses guys. Just joined this forum good to see helpuful folks out there! I'll take a gravity reading in a few days to see if its where I want it and work on a temperature solution.

So I've had a bunch of issues keeping a good temperature in my old house. It gets down to around 58 when we turn the heat off at night so I wasnt getting much action. During the day I moved the primary fermenter close to an air vent and wrapped a blanket around it to increase the temp. This...

I had a lot of trouble with temp control in my old house. Pitched yeast at proper temp but it cooled down to 58 degrees ambient in the house that night. Saw no action. The next morning I warmed up the house and the fermentation started rolling. That night I put a couple towels around it and...