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I'm brewing a 5 gallon batch of a red ale. Used S-04 for yeast. Fermentation started within 24hrs like normal and everything appeared fine. Still does in fact, aside from the fact that fermentation hauled quite quickly seems to be quite sluggish. It's a little over 72hrs since pitching. Just did...

Just in case anyone else has this issue, email [email protected] and in a few hours you'll get a very helpful response. Basically, I gave my serial # for my Brewie B20 and the developers pushed the 3.1.2 software update to my machine, giving me access to the "morecontrol" developer section...

Hey Guys, I have a brand new B20 Brewie and everything on it seems to work except it will not drain out the port in the back where the wort should drain out. The pumps run but I think the valve is stuck. Does anyone have any experience with fixing this issue? I've already emailed Brewie so...

Hey everyone. I live in an area with no local homebrew shops so everything I get I have to order in the mail. Made a mistake on my last order and my grains arrived unmilled. I don't know anyone with a mill and need to get this beer brewing. I have a manual and electric food processor with many...

I was thinking of tossing in some dextrose to the next batch in addition to upping the IBUs. Would around 1lbs (approx 8% in this recipe) be enough to accomplish this?

Mash temp was a steady 154F for 60min. OG was 1.060 and final was about 1.010 and IBU as per BrewSmith was about 57. I just cracked another one and head formation and retention was good, carbonation was great, aroma was also great. I definitely think I will go with your suggestion on upping the...

Hey everyone, Had some left over grains after brewing a few batches of beer with a friend. I ended up with 2 bags that had 11lbs of 2-row and 1.5lbs of caramel 30L. Way too much caramel, I know but figured we would try it. Well I brewed the first batch using all centennial hops (1oz at 60 min...

How long can you strecth out doing the boil before getting too worried about infection or off flavours? 24-hours? 48-hours? Longer? Only reason I ask as I too am a homebrew loving father of a 10 month old and sometimes sleeping patterns are way off for my son and although I'd ideally like to...

Haha thanks everyone. Never fear the foam!

Hey everyone...quick question here. I use StarSan to sanitize my 5 gallon keg before dropping in a batch to carbonate and drink. Usually my process is clean and rinse keg of all residue and remnants of previous batch, drop in about 1/2-3/4 of a gallon of StarSan, swish it all around, put lid...

Well the short answer here is once you set your fermenter down and pitch your yeast, you should try and avoid moving it for sure. Now, having recently went through setting up my brew area and having to rearrange things in my house all the time leading up to that, I too moved fermenters around a...

Thanks so much for this! This info comes at a great time as I will have quite a few batches getting brewed up in the next few weeks. I think this will prove to be very useful. Much appreciated.

Thanks brew! I actually do remember reading that but it definitely slipped my mind. Perhaps I didn't figure this thing out lol. And thanks bigdaddybrew as well. I guess this means I'll just have to brew a bunch more batches so I can dial in my refractometer right lol! Yea, that should solve it!

Hey BrotherGrim, at first I did. I used my wort thermometer to get the temp then I compensated. I also left the hydrometer in the wort until it reached room temp and it was confirmed 1.050. Thanks for the tip as well oujens. I'll keep a conversion chart handy. I may have solved the problem...

I did the calibration with distilled and 0'd it out. Still couldn't get the damn thing to read OG correctly. I'll have to give it another go with the sample I saved to try.

I'm new to using a refractometer and I brewed up a batch of all grain witbier lastnight. The final colour of it is pretty light. I took one of the pipettes that came with it and grabbed a sample just before the boil. Squirted it into a small sample cup I had to chill a bit before applying it to...