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I've got the sticker thermometer thing on the outside of the bucket, but don't know how accurate that is. Guess I need to turn the heat up!

I'm trying to warm it up! Got my heat up to 72 and I wrapped the bucket in clothes. If that doesn't work I'll move it to the living room which is warmer than my closet. If I check the gravity in a week and it's still too high is that too late to pitch more yeast? Don't have a fermcap and don't...

A little of both. The simcoe hops I boiled for 30 mins I put in a muslin bag and took those out, but the late additions I threw in directly. When I poured into the fermenter I poured through a strainer primarily as an attempt to aerate a little bit, but it also stained some out. The little...

Brew went pretty well last night no real issues came up. I got slight bubbling action going on after about 10 hours or so, hoping it'll start picking up a little bit today.

Updates: -i bought a 5/8th inch tube that fits perfectly in my fermenter lid, so hopefully the blow-off issue is solved -made my two starters, but had some issues with that. I must've measured the water/LME wrong or didn't account for something correctly bc my gravity was 1.060 for the...

I actually just took out the little plastic thing in the hole and it's big enough to fit my tube I use for racking (prob about a third of an inch). Is that big enough? The tube has a little bit of open space left around it in the hole, is that an issue?

Another stupid question. There fermenter bucket I have only has a little hole for the airlock, if I were to use a blow-off do I need to cut a bigger hole or do they have lids with a half inch hole in it already?

Thanks for the tips! Working on getting my starter set up now. Is there a calculation or something to determine yeast growth rates with starters? I'm assuming it could vary a lot, but is there a way to get a ballpark estimate?

So for 64oz of wort between the two growlers I should boil about 35-40oz of water and about a third of a pound of LME?

Well I guess it'll be a gametime decision tomorrow whether I pitch two or three. Either way thanks for all the advice!

What's the benefit of adding sugar to the boil? Just to increase OG?

Just seeing these last two posts and have some updates. I ended up getting two packs of wyeast 1318 (was going to get three, but the guy at LHBS said two should be fine for a 1.080 brew). They're both dated 11/20. Do you think those two without starters with be adequate? I don't have a stir...

Yeah, I just didn't want people saying I needed to maintain a certain temp while steeping grains (since I won't have any) and I forgot that it's not actually boiling at that point. But thanks for the warning!

So you don't think wyeast packs need a starter?

It's OK to aerate the wort 12 hours after the original pitch? Def planning on a starter and at least 2 yeast packs. It takes a lot to overyeast a beer, right?

I wouldn't say the hops are necessarily driving the recipe, I'm just kinda refining the recipe as I go since this is my first one. I came in planning on a heavily hopped high gravity beer and didn't realize i didn't have enough LME to get the gravity I hoped for. I'm going to look into a blow...

Yeah I've seen people say to boil and cool it, but I'm buying bottled water so I assumed I would be able to skip that step. Maybe I should boil just in case

Yeah I'm hoping to be around 1.080 or so. I've never actually added water after the boil before, so am I supposed stir it into the wort or something?

Noted, thanks

Oh, that makes sense. Thanks