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Nice, good recommendation. Thanks!

Y kettle is due for a good cleaning. I let it soak overnight in oxyclean and I think that was a mistake because it left a stubborn residue. Can I soak in Vinegar for a short amount of time then wash good with soap, or what would you guys suggest?

Great advice, I appreciate you taking the time to respond. I'll listen to those podcasts and you gave me a really good starting point. Thanks!

So much stuff about water chemistry, I get it that it's important... I live in Scottsdale, Arizona and the water is crap. I've been using distilled water with 3 tsp of Gypsum for the past couple of years and it seems to do fine, but I'm always wondering if I should be doing something else. I'm...

I'm doing an ESB and have been reading my "Designing Great Beers" book. It recommends for this style mashing with a water to grain ratio of 1qt/lb... My grain bill is 14.5 pounds which is obviously 14.5 quarts of water which is roughly 3.75 gallons. My question is whether or not that's to thick...

Probably just needs more time, thanks for chiming in!

Fermentation temp. Ferments in a temperature controlled fridge using a Johnson controller with probe sitting in middle of beer using a thermowell.

71 f

My gut tells me to let this go for a few days then throw the hops in for a couple weeks. I was going to rack to secondary but I'm thinking that keeping this beer on the yeast for the dry hopping period will do it good.

Sorry... No stir plate, just swirling as often as possible.

Yeah it is a ton of Crystal, I intentionally did that as I wanted a dramatic presence of its characters, sort of working on refining this recipe of the course of a few brews. Yeast vials were expiring in January, so must be fairly fresh. One thing I noticed is both vials had a lot of pressure...

I pitched two vials into one 2L starter. I then pitched the entire starter into the wort. The grain bill is as follows: 90 minute boil starting with 8 gallons in the boil kettle, left about 2.5 gallons in the kettle that was mostly absorbed by hops used during the boil... 16 lb 2 Row 4.5 lb...

Brewed a 5 gallon Imperial IPA 13 days ago with a starting gravity of 1.100. I fear I have under pitched. I used 2 vials of WLP001 in a 2 L starter. I just checked the gravity and am only at 1.040, I would have expected more progress after 13 days of fermentation at 71 F. It tastes pretty good...

I should have mentioned that this was a 5 gallon batch. Mrmalty.com states a 2.01 L starter with 2 vials of liquid yeast with o2 at start.

I may be paranoid but I have a strange feeling about one of my fermentations. Just brewed up an imperial IPA with an OG of 1.100. I pitched a 2 L started that contained two vial of WLP001 last Sunday at about 5 PM. The starter was very active when pitched. It fermented pretty well for a couple...

Here is one of the recipes I did for a 5 gallon batch: 13.5 lbs Maris otter .5 lbs brown malt .5 lbs crystal 40 .5 lbs crystal 80 3 oz Kent goldings @ 60 1 oz Kent goldings @ 10 Wlp002 (English ale) @ 68 F I'm thinking maybe get rid of the brown malt and replace the crystal with 1 pound for 120?

All fantastic suggestions... Now I know I've been doing it wrong. A couple of ESB's that I really enjoy are the Breckenridge ESB which is probably the most raisin / toffee like flavor, and I also really like the left hand sawtooth ale too.

I typically have used a white labs English ale yeast around 68 degrees, I may have been trying to get my beer to the darker colorni desire by using roasted grain rather than a darker crystal, that's a great suggestion. The darker crystal will lend more malty like flavors without roasting the...

One of the things I love so much about a nice ESB is a quality I can only describe as raisin like... Every time I try to brew a so called ESB, I end up with just an average pale ale, nothing impressive. Without going into the recipes I've been brewing, what grains really lend themselves to this...

Revvy, thanks for the tips, I'm going to give that a try and see how it works. Doesn't sound like I ruined it, just made my life harder :)