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Mash schedule is 145 for 75 min, and 155 for 10min although I'm considering 148 for the whole time. I'm adding 1.5 lbs of sugar, the FG is actually supposed to get down to about 1.006 - 1.008 ideally. Thanks Mike

I'm getting ready to brew a Pliny the Younger Triple IPA and I have a question regarding the yeast. This recipe is 1.090 OG and about 10.8% ABV and calls for WLP 001 California Ale yeast. My home brew store only carries 1056 Wyeast. After plugging 1056 into Beersmith, I realized that 1056 would...

I may eventually get a 5l flask but they are definitely not cheap. I've seen posts about canning as well, but I don't have any of the supplies for that either so I got to thinking... If I sanitize a couple growlers really well and add the wort to it, I don't see how nasties could get in once...

I need a 4l starter for my next 10 gallon batch, so I was planning on making a starter, decanting and adding fresh starter wort back in to get the yeast cells that I need. Is there any reason that I couldn't make a couple gallons of starter wort (enough for my next batch of beer as well as this...

I recently upgraded from buckets to a 14 gallon fastferment conical. In doing so I've outgrown my chest freezer fermenting chamber, so I'm looking for other options. Has anyone tried using evaporative coolers for a fermenting chamber? I'm not talking about the t-shirt in a bucket of water type...

Moose, that's a very interesting observation, and I LOVE your splitter! What a great idea! That being said I pulled the trigger on a 14 gal fastfermenter this weekend to avoid having to split in the future (your idea could have saved me a lot of money!) On top of all that I completely forgot...

I filled one, then the other. I didn't realize that would make a difference, what's the reason for going back and forth?

Yeah, that's kinda what I was thinking as well. The 2nd bucket wasn't as active as the first, but it was the first time that I've ever had a ferment blow out the hole in any way. OG was 1.060 and it was Wyeast 1056. I was actually worried that I may have over pitched between the 3 litre...

Thanks! I usually don't secondary, but the recipe called for me to dry hop after transferring to secondary so I figured what the hell! I was supposed to do it after 3 or 4 days if I remember right,but I obviously blew the timing as far as that one goes. That's great info about doing it with a...

I brewed my first 10 gallon batch 9 days ago, and the brew day actually went pretty well. When I split the batch into fermenter buckets, it was more like 4.75 gal and 5.75 gal per bucket, so not exactly an even split. My Yeast starter was a 3 litre starter which I poured off the wort and pitched...

Thanks, just for peace of mind, tell me if this sounds like a good plan. I'll leave the current 2L starter on the counter until tomorrow afternoon when I get home with the new yeast pack at which point I'll throw it in the fridge until Thursday. (Should I put the current starter on the stir...

Thanks for the replies! It's a 10 gallon 1.075 batch. I made a 2 liter starter last night, and ordered a stir plate which just showed up. I'm new to building starters and after looking at some yeast calculators, I am even more confused on what to do now. Apparently I should have made a 2.58...

I am sure this has been answered somewhere before, but I've been looking for about an hour and can't find my answer. I'm planning on brewing my first 10g batch this Friday, and Beersmith is telling me that I need an 8L starter (It's a double IPA). I typically do 5 gallon batches and I'll just...

It slowly climbed to around 160 until I caught it and started bringing it down. It probably took close to 10 min to get from 160 to 150. If I had to guess, I would say it was 15-20 minutes between 150 and 160. I tested with Iodine at 1:15 and it still stayed a little brown, didn't get amber...

I typically like to brew when nobody is home so there are no distractions at critical points. Unfortunately, I'm watching my 8 yr old daughter today and there was a "crisis" that took me away a few times during the mash. The results of her "crisis" was my mash temp spiking to 160 during the...

Hi there! I am having a hard time dialing in my temperatures for my E-Keggle and E-Herms setup that I've built. I have an Auber EZBoil controller for my BK/HLT and I have an old Inkbird PID that I use for monitoring Mash Temp. Here's the problem. In Ice water the Auber reads 32 and the...

Thanks so much! Your reply came just in time for my brewday yesterday. I've been stressing with each batch because I lose a lot of temperature in my Keggle Mash Tun during the sparge because beersmith tells me to sparge at 168, I figured it was because you needed to keep the mash temp up during...

Hey all! So I'm sort of new to all grain brewing, I've got around 10 batches under my belt and the results have run the spectrum. I've recently built an EHERMs setup and I've got a few questions. 1.) When I fly sparge, the temperature drops pretty quickly using 168F sparge water in my keggle...

Great idea with the fans! It is outside in the summer and inside for the winter, I have the problem all year long though. I'll give that a shot! Thanks! Mike

Tap is mounted as low as possible. It has a fan, it's hard to tell in the pictures, but it's in the well mounted to the floor. It pulls the cold air outta the well and blows it up top. There's a few degrees of temp variance from top of keg to the bottom, but not a lot. I also have insulation...