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what the heck is that??? Could I use a standard old heating pad??? I have one of those.

it wouldn’t be on the floor I put the carboys on our bar top

I wanna use either the voss or hornidal strain and I loved the brew I made with it during the summer but the temps were mid 90’s in my garage when I fermented that neipa. So cooler weather has moved in and I’ll ferment in my finished basement now where it’s 70-72 deg. Will either the ferm wrap...

Used hornidal fermenting at 90 deg on a neipa and it completely dropped out on day 4 so I did my first dry hop in the high 50’s now those have dropped out so I’m thinking why wait till day 7 for second dry hop if there’s no need for diacetyl rest and the first rd of dryhopping has dropped out So...

What was ur ferm temp? And did u reoxygenate the wort at 12hrs after pitching, that’s huge for yeast health in a big ris.

Great thanks

Anyone do a rest d rest after primary fementation is over with this yeast or is it not necessary because the yeast works at such high temps it cleans up everything in the process. I pitched one pack hornidal into 5.75 gal 1.072 OG neipa, fermented in my garage where it hit high 80’s low 90’s and...

I’ve also read that the esters in this are temp dependent too. Like in the lower range you’ll have less esters than in its higher temp range. So my neipa I’m trying to get it as hot as possible to add those esters. Maybe I’d u ferment it in the high 60’s low 70’s with good oxygenation of the...

I just pitched a full pack into a 1.075 neipa and it’s been fermenting for 2 days in the high 80’s low 90’s in my garage. Bubbling has started to slow so heck by tomm this may be done.

So brewed Thursday and pitched one pack into a 1.075 neipa at 85 deg. It’s been in my garage with blankets around the fermenter for 2 days now. Still has a Krause but bubbling has def slowed. When should or how should I handle the diacetyl rest. Should I leave it in the garage no matter for say...

I actually wasn’t joking lol I’ve always batch sparged so never looked into the process of fly sparging or manual fly sparging at that mostly I’ve seen the use of a sparge arm. I know what it looks like and that it’s supposed to increase efficiency but that’s it.

So essentially I’d drain my first runnings then just say a pitcher at a time add my sparge water with the drain opened to a slow runoff. how would I break up the pour so it doesn’t tunnel through the grain bed and is a vorlouf necessary or with fly sparring does the wort run clear right off the...

It was 16.25 lbs of grain

well today I mashed in at 1.5qt/lb and the braid got stuck so I had to dump out the entire mash pull the braid but then it worked fine with just the fb as usual. I only left like 1/2 gal in the tun after getting my pbv. I did drain off a little more and got 7.75 gal at 1.060 PBG 2pts higher than...

ya know before I moved lhbs I was hitting my numbers consistently if not overshooting some so I stopped taking pbg numbera. Wasn’t tell I had to go to a new lhbs where I was missing my og numbers so Since I was using the same process I chalked it up to the crush so I went and bought my own mill...

so you'd thicken the initial mash? So in this case I did 6 gal mash in and 4 sparge. Wouldit be more beneficial to do say a 5 and 5 mash in sparge amount. so with that I’d prob get 3gal first running and collect my other 4 1/2 with the sparge.

At first I didn’t get this but now as I’m mashing in I was thinking about this not sure if I’m on it but here’s what I was thinking. So I’d drain first runnings and do a single sparge. Drain off half the vol into pot, added it back in stir it up and do this like 3 times so like a hand powered...

ok cool I’ll double check but 1/2” sounds right and maybe I’ll just get one of these. Thanks for the help

its 10gal but the false bottom sits on a welded stand just above the spigot so I lose total volume. most ive done is 24lbs mashing at 1qt/lb was 7 gal And real thick but that was max for me to still close the lid. Normally I’ll mash at 1.5-1.65qt/lb collect 4 gal then sparge and collect my other...