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The gravity hasn't budged in 4 days. It is stuck on .030. I've swirled and warmed her up with no effect. The estimated SG and FG from Beersmith was 1.059 and 1.015 respectively. But I did not enter the Lactose and Unsweetened Cocoa into the program.

I finished a 60 min IPA. I used Ringwood Ale yeast and the son of a gun fermented for close to a month. I was on the board asking the notorious "Is it finished yet" question. I never had one go that long. I would wait a few days and then check it.

Wyeast Irish Ale (1084) :) :)

OG l.062 FG 1.030 7# Pale malt 1# Chocolate malt 1#Flaked Oats 1#Victory Malt 0.50#Caramel 40L 0.50#Caramel 80L 0.50# Roasted Barley Late Addition: at 50 Min' 8oz Lactose 8oz Unsweetened Cocoa I know that the lactose is unfermentable. I am not sure about the Chocolate. I...

Kayaking down the Shenendoah for Smallmouth with some good beer and two guys that love good beer just brought a big smile to my face.

I dry hopped my IPA with whole leaf hops. Before this, I have always used pellets. The leaf material has been floating on the surface for 5 days now. The pellets I have used before have always settled out on the bottom of the carboy. Should I do anything with the hops or just continue to...

I just completed an AG stout and pitched Wyeast 1084 (starter). It took off in 6 hours and in about 15 hours it was bubbling at 2 burps per second - fastest I have had to this point. It is now approaching 48 hours and things have really slowed down . I am assuming that the same thing will...

(Western PA) I really don't know anything about growing them but!! A block from where I live in the community center playground there is a 50' section of cyclone fencing that is full of hop vines and hops. I have no idea how they got there or what kind they are. I would love to find out.

I am crushing my grains for the first time today- new barley crusher. :) Do you need to do anything to flaked oats? Or do they go into the mash as-is? Thanks

If you are just getting started, I would taste one weekly. It will teach you how a beer ages. If you keep a log, you should make notes on how the beer is developing week by week. Right now I taste one at two weeks and wait a month until drinking.

I really believe that #1 (lack of learning) is the most important. Before my first brew I read Palmer, and Papazian's books and took notes. Now that I am doing All Grain, I reread Palmers's stuff on AG brewing and study the info. on the AG/Partial Forum. I am surprised at SOME of the...

Do they make 12 oz EZ Cap bottles? The smallest that I can find are 16 oz. I love the ease of the EZ cap and have a case of them. But I would love to have a case or two of 12 oz.

Yes, this grain batch was crushed by the supplier. My Barley Crusher came today.

I took everyone's advice in the post about sparging large grain bills and finished my IPA today(2nd AG batch). I used Bobby's ideas on sparging (no mashout), Salive and FlyGuy's suggestion concerning increasing my sparge volumes and Orfy's post on how to figure evaporation. I ended up with...

Just finished my second AG batch and from cold water heating up to putting the airlock on the carboy was about 6 hours. I should be able to cut the time down after I get more experience and don't have to read/think everything out so much. :)

Flyguy I see what you are saying. I don't have any extra grain and thought about adjusting the hops to account for the lower expected gravity. However the recipe calls for continuous hopping - mixing all together and adding .2 oz every 5 minutes for the 90 min boil. Continuous hopping doesn't...

I have dry hopped three times, so take my advice with a grain of "uh" hops. :) The first two times I did it I used the paint strainer bag and it worked great. The third time, I had so much hop sediment in the beer that I racked to a third carboy to clear the hops. It worked great. From there...

Thanks guys. I am planning on brewing tomorrow. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Bobby. So you are saying not to raise the first running temp to around 168, but instead - just collect the first running as is and then do two sparges of 2 gallons at 180? I am assuming that the two sparges at 180 will bring the grain bed temp up enough to maximize extraction.

I screwed up the first time and did not measure the wort collected to figure the absorption rate. I will this time. I boiled for 60 min for the first batch and used 6.5 gallons and ended up with around 5.25 gallons.