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Well Amazon fubar my order of Lactose and lost it. Looks like coming Wed. Now I will just add it to serving keg with vanilla. Ill give it a little shake a few times to incorporate it. Dont plan on boiling since will be after cold crash. Figured if maintained less 35F will be fine. Thoughts?

And of course plans change again. Plan on brewing vanilla orange creamsicle below tomorrow using BIAB. I want to try No chill because I brew early and about time I am done with flameout the kid gets out of bed. Since I ferment in Keg I will purge of all O2 and put it in cooler beg for kegs with...

Thanks Apache I shortened the dip tube roughly 2" and also installed a 200 micron screen over it for additional filtration. When you mentioned removing gas post I removed the air lock from the gas post I had commented during fermentation but the actual keg post is still installed. Essentially...

Quick question on proper conditioning for kegs. I crashed the beer to 34F yesterday afternoon. Temp swings on my keezer that sits outside will be 31-36F at this setting. My questions are how long should I keep it cold crashed before transferring to keg and once its transferred should I...

Shook it up pretty good yesterday. Came down this morning and air lock was filled and the cooler the keg was sitting in had about 2 cups of beer in bottom. Looks like a little overflow from shaking it up id imagine. Took another gravity sample and still at 1.022. Tasted real hoppy. Not awful...

I dry hopped yesterday and took a gravity reading by hydrometer. It was at 1.022. I put sample in my refractometer and it shows 1.034 which is same as the day prior. I took another gravity reading today by hydrometer and it was at 1.022 so it appears fermentation was complete in 3 days. Not sure...

Thanks Taylor. I am going to drop to 149F and extend to 2 hours. Pretty easy for me to do as I modified my sous vide to fit in pot so I can maintain temps well.

Thanks. The above answers definitely help. In Brewfather when I adjust the mash length or temperature there is no affect on ABV. Also when adding grain to increase OG the ABV goes up. For instance in the creamsicle recipe I mentioned above adding .5lb of 2-row took ABV to 1.018 from 1.015...

Trying to understand how yeast works and modify recipes/yeast to get the FG I am looking for. For instance when I plug a recipe into Brewfather and the OG is high 1.06's and I select a 70% attenuation yeast as it is the preferred for recipe I may only get a final gravity of low 1.02's. What...

So appears all fermentation has stopped. I saw one bubble this morning but nothing since then. I took a sample and only at 1.034. I plan to introduce dry hops tomorrow and will take another sample. If it is the same what is the best way to get the FG down to where it should be. Temperature...

Yeah I decided to go with a DIPA. Played around in Brewfather and came up with the below. Will probably brew it next weekend after the NEIPA I have in fermenter is transferred to keg 1.5Gal BIAB at 63% Efficiency 3.5lb Pale Ale Malt 1lb Flaked Barkley 1/2LB Carapils .5oz Cascade 60min .5oz...

The stout was requested by brother in laws but literally right after getting home from LHBS they said no so something else. I am not familiar with all the grains and which style benefit from which grains. Trying to see if there is a good ale recipe out there that benefits from what I already...

So I have family coming into town over Halloween and plan was to brew an imperial stout. After getting all the ingredients the plan changed to basically brewing anything but a stout or porter. Looking for help to see you all have a recipe that incorporates the ingredients I already have. I dont...

Looks like 1 shock pack in cooler will maintain fermenter temps of 64-66 with ambient temps 80-85. Pretty happy with this. This morning had very active fermentation 16 hours after pitching Safbrew S-33. Will probably dry hop on day 4

Thanks. Will have them do that next time. One good thing is I have keg (fermenter) in the keg cooler bag with 3 cooler shock packs. I vac sealed the remote temperature probe shown above and dropped it inside. Temp is at 64F with ambient temps at 85F. I pulled two packs and replaced with a fresh...

Unfortunately I cant crush my own grains and believe LHBS keeps on one setting. Next batch will base off same 63% but do 90min mash as you stated and see how that goes

Got an early start this morning on this recipe. After mashing at 150 for 60 min I got a pre boil gravity of only 1.044 vs 1.051 recipe indicated. OG was at 1.061. According to Brewfather this puts Mash efficiency at 69.7% and brewhouse efficiency at 62.9%. Not too thrilled with these numbers...

Yeah I dont know why I had whirlfloc down in recipe. I removed that as not needed. After updating my equipment profile the FG drifted quite a bit. I have efficiency set at 70%. Not sure if 1.021FG will be ok based on this recipe. Below is what Brewfather was calculating

Well a package full of goodies showed up to day so now have everything for BIAB setup. I wanted to re do my equipment profile to make sure everything was correct so filled kettle with 3.5 gallon and brought to a boil to monitor boil off. After a bit I noticed some white residue on the sides and...