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this is how I was told to calibrate mine

Say I get 3 days of the same readings after only a week in the primary...you're saying it's okay (even better) to leave it on the cake for another 2 weeks? I thought that the cake (dead/dying yeast) can leach a bad taste into the beer and one of the benefits of racking to the secondary (aside...

So about 2 days in a row of the same sg reading would be enough evidence that the primary is finished?

Pt. 2 - I'm getting a bubble from the airlock about once every 6 seconds. I put it in there about 8pm cst Sunday night (yeast went to work within a couple hours). It was 1.093 when I put it in...I'm looking to get down to about 1.020-22 range. What are the benefits of racking to the...

Great! This is what I was looking for. I can just disassemble my auto siphon and steal a sample. Thanks folks!

I'm getting ready to rack a pretty big beer to the secondary but I want to check the sg before I commit to the transfer. It's in a 6.5 gallon carboy now. I don't think my turkey baster is long enough to get a sample and I would rather not bust out the auto siphon to collect a 4 oz sample...

I took copious notes throughout the process. Many thanks to those who offered their advice here. Here is my recipe and my brew day notes: (criticisms, comments welcome) My equipment- 2 x 17.5 gallon igloo cubes. MT has a sparge sprinkler and ss hose grain filter. 8 gallon brew pot (keggle...

Not an inordinate amount...I mean, I was just using a normal consumer grade gas stove.

I used liquid wyeast large packs.

In that sticky thread there was a lot of talk about "boiling down to volume" when using a large grain bill. Since I have a relatively small boil kettle...and I going to have trouble hitting my OG? Does beersmith account for this? I plan on mashing with 1.25qt/lb So for 18 lbs of grain...

geez, lotta cherries gonna be popped this weekend :) Some advice is needed: I have a recipe that I'm committed to at this point, for better or worse. It is for an IIPA with an OG of 1.090 and an 18lb grain bill. I have huge mash/hlt coolers (70qt) and a 8 gallon boil kettle. Am I...

I used mrmalty to calculate that I needed a 2.5 l starter w/ 2 wyeast packets to get about 320 Billion cells. So...I got 2.5 liters (.6 gallons) of water to a boil and stirred in about 8 oz of DME. Boiled for 15 minutes in a small ss stockpot and then chilled in an ice bath for about 15...

Rather than mash more grains, I was thinking about adding some of the 9 lbs of LME to bump up the OG to 1.040.

My SS pot is 5 gal. I plan on picking up an Al pot this weekend (probably about a 6 gal or so). My other limitation is my gas stove. I think 4 gallons is at the upper limit of my boiling abilities.

For now I've just been doing 5 gal partial mashes. The next batch I plan on doing the same but I'm going to try to dial things in a bit. I'm brewing a big IIPA and I want to try to hit an OG of ~1.040 for the boil so I can get the most out of my hops. Then do a late boil extract add to hit...

I'm looking for an economical 5-6 gal. brewpot that I can pick up this weekend? Anyone have any suggestions on where to buy one? I would like to stay under $30 since this is only a temporary solution.