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Did you use top off water? You could get a really high reading if you added water to the fermenter and not your kettle.

Just brewed my first batch with the Tilt, I am addicted to watching the plot on brewstat.us. I would have never thought that I could reach terminal gravity in less than three days, but I think that is what happened:

I hear you there. One of my first two new kegs also had a leaky lid. The vendor was great and sent me a new lid no questions asked, here's hoping you have a good experience.

Have you tried contacting the vendor?

I'm in, if only to make sure that everybody knows that he spells his name Ryne Sandberg.

You have to have somewhere for the pressure to release. If you just tried to push the beer in the liquid post it wouldn't want to go in. You can vent the PRV, use an airlock on the gas post, or do something else like that.

What kind of fermenter do you have? If you have a carboy, you can look from the side and see if it is still actively moving around.

I think you'll be fine if you sparge. There are calculators all over for figuring how much grain and water you can fit in a kettle. I think you'll be ok, but you might have to be careful with your boil if you only have 1-1.5 gallons of headspace.

I have read that people go so far as to just toss their hot wort in the FC and pitch the next day. I think that your solution is perfectly fine. I am no expert, they will be here shortly, but I think that chilling down to 80ish degrees quickly will still give you the benefits associated with...

If you're leak free, I'd leave everything on at serving pressure

Oxiclean free is the fragrance and dye free version of Oxiclean Versatile. The tub has a green lid instead of a yellow one.

How low is the "low" gravity?

Make sure you brush up on the differences between steeping and mashing to make sure you get the most out of the 2 row.

I have had luck filling bottles this way. I use 3/8 ID tubing and it slides right inside of one of my faucets. The other faucet is a perlick and I needed to stretch the tubing using a wine stopper to get it to go on the outside of the faucet. I usually overfill a little to try to minimize how...

I had the same issue with one of my kegs. I believe that the weld was poor and I had the lid replaced by the vendor. I kept the original lid and might try to repair with some jb weld. Can you tell where the leak is on the PRV? If it is where the valve seats, maybe a new PRV or some keg lube...

Sheffield's is pretty close and is a top 5 Chicago craft beer bar. DryHop is probably the best brew pub within a mile or so of Wrigley.

I'd dry hop, then.keg/bottle.

I found this on another thread, it seems much more informed than my personal feelings!

How much later are we talking? I will personally use the same bucket for an evening for cleaning a bunch of bottles, but if I leave it overnight it starts to get very filmy.