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Hi Calder - thanks for your response! Yes Started with 2 1/2 gallon partial boil, and yes misspoke, meant the finishing hops! Fermentables 3.3 # Dark LME 2.0 # Dark DME .5 Maltodextrin Grains 12oz Caramel 60L 4oz Roasted Barley 4oz Black Patent Hops 1oz Magnum .5oz El Dorado Yeast 1 dry...

Thanks guys. Mark - My instinct is that you are right we should probably let the second batch stay in the primary. Pkrd - when we said we wanted a higher gravity I thought it would be like a 7! My guess now is that 1 extra# of DME would not be enough to do that? What do we know. Ug. And yes...

Hi guys... so we're still kind of newbies but we're trying some new things. I went to my local brew shop and bought a Irish stout kit, I told him we wanted to split it into 2- 2 1/2 half gallon batches and make a Holiday style stout out of the second batch. He gave me an extra pound of DME and...

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Hello - need some help again. We took the advice to wait 7 or so days before bottling. The gravity reading has remained the same at 1.016 and there has been no bubbling for several days so we decided that today would be bottling day. However, noticed it started bubbling. Thinking this may be due...

Thanks all! Okay we will let them all ride for now.

Hi all - So we posted last week we were having issues getting a good SG reading on our coffee porter in the secondary fermentor in anticipation of bottling. So we wont bore you with those details but the end result was we took all your sage advise and left it in to continue frementing...

Meat Clever and Vammy we are going to take your advice and wait this one out & go down to the shop and see if they have a test jar., otherwise Amazon Prime! Enjoy your Fat Tire and your weekend! Thanks again.

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So I have to say a friend suggested we come on this forum...or A forum, I should say, and it was the best idea ever!! Everyone is SO helpful, we always feel like we are the blind leading the blind with this new brewing hobby. So I definitely think you guys are right we did not have enough of...

Thanks for all your suggestions! I am going to try and get a new thief today that doesnt leak, and make sure I have enough sample. I was going to use a turkey baster and put it into the tube for our siphon (smartly i marked the outside with a sharpie using water as my test to get the right...

What does that mean degassed? I will try and post pic as per suggestions. tx!

So we are NEWBIES. We brewed a st paul porter and the og was 1.052. when we took a reading b4 moving to the carboy (one week in) it was 1.012. Its been in the CB for two weeks... still getting a few bubbles in the air lock, but not a lot. We want to bottle this weekend so we just tried to take a...