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I only use liquid when there is no dry strain equivalent. There are more varities of liquid. It is nonsensical, to me, to pay $7.50 (cost of WL at my LHBS) for dead bang plain ole basic American ale WL 001 or WY 1056 when you can get a pack of US 05. Twice the yeast and no need to a starter...

You needed to start with 3 vials of yeast, or make a large yeast starter, for that high of an OG. It will of course "make beer", but obviously you have already encountered one of the problems from hugely underpitching. So you either wait (it should start soon) and/or buy a bunch more yeast...

Dry or liquid yeast?

yeah that is 5 ounces you won't get back ;) Seriously, it looks to be actively fermenting so wait a few more days. Then dry hop for 4-7 days- it is an IPA! Then take a gravity reading to bottle - it should be ready. What yeast did you use? Recipe? You can input ingredients in brewer...

You know, you are right. Let SWMBO package it in bottles, and mail it out to us for further testing.

Welcome to HBT! Looks fine; let it sit 10-14 days from brew day before messing with hydrometer readings. cheers

there are a lot of steeping how to's on here & the net.

There is no equipment save a reusable grain bag which is $1. You really need to steep grains to make a mild-- it requires chocolate and crystal 60L. As mentioned by another poster, look for Orfy's Mild ale in the English brown ale recipe section on here. good luck!

One liter is about 33 oz. You want to have 2 gallons (128oz x2) of finished wort, plus trub and all that. So that is ~8-9 liters at the end. You boil off water and grain absorbs water, so you need to start with way more than 8 or 9 liters of water for a 2 gallon BIAB. You need a 16l pot or...

Can you steep grains? Or are you 100% extract?

If you want cherry flavor, I would add real cherries or real cherry juice, to the beer-- not any fake artificial stuff. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/adding-cherries-beer-318537/

Not much to add until a new gravity sample is taken, just a few random comments-- I would give the dry Safale a few days to work, although rehydrating it before pitching would have confirmed viability. A dry pitch kills off a bunch of cells but it should still work (but it is a suboptimal...

If it were me, I would want a tried and true recipe. This seems like a mishmash. English yeast & hops for an American brown ale- huh? Anyways, it is my suggestion to go to the recipe section or look at a book and copy that one. Tasty's Janet's Brown Ale is one of the most respected homebrew...

Where do they get their water and how do they treat it, if at all?

Sorry to hear! I would get a water report from the bottled water you have been using, and plug the numbers of your grist into a spreadsheet to see an estimate of the mash pH. https://sites.google.com/site/brunwater/ It can be "ozonated, micron filtered, and UV light treated" up the wazoo, --...

Sorry to hear he found a new victim. Hopefully you get your money back. I believe his companies are kegkits.com and stir-plate.com There are threads on here asserting the same problems you encountered. He has also replied giving his "side" of the story (see eg, late 2011, his business...

My post was to say that it is not the end of buying bulk grain, you just need a new hook-up. I got three sacks this year when someone got a contact at a local brewery that added our order to theirs. The organizers rented a UHaul and took over 100 sacks for the homebrewers. Ask around and good...

Hi, in case you did not know, the grain suppliers have generally stopped selling to homebrewers directly. There were some old accounts that were grandfathered in, but I understand that under pressure earlier this year from homebrew supply shops, the grain companies stopped those too. I believe...

Are you steeping grains? To be honest, I would not expect huge differences between extract-only blonde/pale ale (Sierra Nevada) recipes. I would expect you used the same extract (extra light or light), and the same yeast (American ale). Since you "aged" the SN clone, the hops probably dropped...

welp the OP mentioned steeping grains so there is definitely lacto on the grain & in the beer. My post was, regardless, somewhat tongue in cheek and I should have put a smiley face. so I will leave it here :)