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This is my 6th or 7th batch of 5 gallon kits from Northern Brewers. Everything was done by the book and it’s stopped all activity. I can’t even get a bubble if I slightly rock the fermenter. I used a blowoff tube into a two quarter bottle of water and StarSan. Here are the details: Pitched dry...

I just tasted my Captain’s Ration Export Stout extract kit brew. It has been bottle conditioning for 3weeks. The Kit instructions said the OG was to be 1.073 and mine was 1.072. I kept it on the primary for 1 month. My FG was 1.024 which came out to be 6.419 ABV based on my hydrometer readings...

FloppyKnockers, I didn’t mean to slight you in the least!!! I was just acknowledging that I don’t keg. I should have said that after what you said about keeping it in the primary and the differences in temp, etc, that i agree with you 100 percent!! Again, I do appreciate everyone’s thoughts and...

4Mesh.. thank you for your thoughts on this. If I might, I’d like to lay out what I did with a replay of the temps along the way and ask you if I messed up too much. As you may have read earlier, I have a wifi thermometer attached to the side of the primary fermenter so I have a time line of...

Thank you!!! I’ll just let it stay in the primary to condition! I’m going to bottle when it gets time!! This forum is a great help!!

That’s what I was hoping to hear! I’m just going to leave it in the primary a few more weeks like everyone has suggested!

DBhomebrew… thank you!!!

I’ll add one more twist about secondary fermentation: I did my primary fermentation of 5 gallons of stout in a 6.5 gallon fermenter. I was planning to rack it for secondary to a 5 gallon glass wide mouth in order to not have too much headspace. Would that be a plus for moving to the smaller...

Hot beer! Thank you for the help. It’s a simple process until you start thinking about it. And what seemed complicated to me a few months ago is now more simple. I’m just trying avoid mistakes that could cost me a good beer by being rather complicated in my questions here. Thanks to you and all...

Great!! Thank u! Understand now. I can work around 70!!

Hot beer.. I am talking about the possibility of increasing my temp while in secondary (which I mean in another glass 5 gallon vessel for another few weeks). My cooler basement temps are rapidly increasing and will soon be above my preferred temp range of 59-68F. I’m not talking about bottling...

Yes.. I am talking about secondary fermentation which I think is called conditioning too. My primary fermentation has stopped. This weekend will be two weeks in primary.

I’m sorry but could you phrase that another way. I’m not understanding. Thank you!

Fermentation is done and I was planning to rack it off the trub. When you say room temp, would 68-74F be ok seeing as I fermented it at 63-67F? My basement is very shortly going to be slightly warmer than my AC cooled living area. Thanks!

I’m in the South and the cellar temp is only slightly lower than the living area which we cool with AC. In fact the cellar temp in a few weeks may be higher than our living area (it does not have AC). It is fairly constant down there but will rise slightly over the coming weeks. I think it will...

I’m making a stout from a kit. I used SafeAle S-04 which was one of the recommended yeasts for the kit. The fermentation temp for SafeAle S-04 is indicated as 59-68 degreesF. I know there is some controversy about “revised” S-04 temps, but I went with the 59-68 range and believe it to be better...

Just as an experiment, I put it on a towel this morning for a couple of hours and the temp immediately rose…but only by about a degree and a half! I think I’m going to remove the towel when I get home. With regards to the post about insulating the thermometer from the air.. I have a little wifi...

Are you saying I shouldn’t put in on the bare basement floor because it will suck heat away which might be bad?? I might should have put it on something insulated to prevent that but still it would be close to the basement floor to take advantage of the low thermal layer. Thoughts????