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Brewed this on Saturday. Ended up using Wyeast 1968 for something different. Hit mash temp on the button and only lost 1 degree over an hour even with 2 quick stirs. I have 2 pounds of fresh honey from a local farm ready to add either tomorrow or Wednesday (after the vigorous fermentation is...

Awesome responses. Thanks guys! I apologize for not responding earlier even to thank you. I have altered my recipe a bit taking what you both suggested in mind. I'll even take what you said in mind rhys, even after noticing your location (I'm in Calgary). This is my first time brewing up...

This will be my third all grain BIAB brew. My wife is requesting a honey brown which is her favorite style. I have read a ton on using honey and ways to get the honey flavor to come out more. Built this recipe from a couple different sources so just wanted to see what people thought. Aim is a...

Will answer what I can. Second question first. You are supposed to ferment with the mason jar attached and valve open. That allows fermentation while also allowing the trub to settle down into the mason jar (along with some yeast). You then remove the trub and this then falls into question...

Not sure what you mean by this? The mason jar is meant to collect all trub and yeast so that you don't have to worry about this. It was stupid easy to unscrew the yeast mason jar and just screw on the bottling attachment.

Could you not just crank the valve open and shut a couple times to help loosen up that area? As long as the mason jar is still attached that would probably do more than to just tap on the area?