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I just checked my hydrometer because it bothered me a bit to see my ale going down to 1.009 yesterday and it is still actively fermenting, not that it's a bad thing. It just didn't seem right. In plain water at 72 it is reading .996 so it is reading low. It doesn't change the ABV because both...

2nd sample of my winter hoppy ale, down 2-3 points and now at 1.009. Pretty tasty so far. It is still active too so maybe a few more days till it stops. I think I'll transfer to secondary in my twin 3gal Better Bottles to dry hop and clear it in the fridge and then keg it. My keg is buried...

Took a reading on my Hoppy Winter Ale and it was at 1.012, down from 1.055 and it is still going. It really went crazy in the fermenter and it was on the cool side at 64. I stuck the sample in my beer fridge and I'll taste it when the yeast drops out a bit. I'll give it 2-3 days more to take...

My last 2 starters both took off within a few hours and it is really obvious. My usual formula is 7oz DME in 2L of water, so 3oz in 1 quart is only a little lighter than that, not enough to make a difference. What was the temp in the room? I usually just do it at room temp after I've cooled...

I've left my 5gal batch to settle overnight in a closed carboy before transferring to smaller carboys (that fit in fridge) and adding the yeast many times. Never had a problem and always get good clear beer.

I'd suggest asking Wilser himself. He answers here too.

Good thing I put the blow off in. I'd have probably blown the airlock right out of the carboy overnight. @JAReeves, thanks for the warning!

If you can do full boil and partial mash you should give BIAB a try. It is only a small step up from what you are already doing. My beer was significantly better once I went all-grain, and I never went back after I did BIAB the first time. My entire setup for it is in the post 17869 just a...

No, I slid it on the floor on a piece of cork that you see in the picture, and in the post just above this. But just to be clear, I've been doing this for a very long time without any problems like that. Maybe that's just luck. I joined this forum in 2008 but I've been home brewing since...

Hmmm. 2 days later and it is getting tight. I didn't siphon off the trub because I realized the yeast was there too. Every time I look at it it's gotten a little higher. I'll put a blow off tube on it before I go to sleep just in case. It's been a very steady fermentation so far, at 64℉.

My brew day went surprisingly easy yesterday. No problems with anything. It just takes a long time doing it on stovetop. The one thing that didn’t take a long time was chilling the wort as I figured it wouldn’t.

I was actually thinking I would draw off some of the trub at the bottom to make room.

6 gallons from a 5.5 gallon batch. I added the entire starter. My BIAB sparge setup. A pot lid, a cookie sheet, a metal bowl under the sheet, in my equipment storage bin. The smaller pot is my reserve sparge water, the rest of the wort is in the Blichmann. I used the sous vide to heat the...

Which is harder, lifting all the weight or draining and sparging? For 5 gallons I can lift by hand so it makes sense, but to get what is needed to hoist a large quantity sounds backwards. Liquid will move on its own. And speaking of lifting 10 dry pounds of wet grain, my BIAB is about 5...

I couldn't resist. That's my 10g Blichmann wrapped in a towel under an old fleece for BIAB mashing. Note the knobs are off the stove so nobody tries to use it. You just never know in my house what someone will try to do...

I almost always make lager and never had anything come out tart and sour. I always make a 2L starter of Wyeast Bohemian or Bavarian Pilsner. I never use a nutrient either, the starter is the nutrient and I always use Whirlfloc at the end of the boil. Nothing touches the beer once it has...

After a kitchen remodel this past year I had the problem of what to do with my beer fridge, which sat in a corner of the pantry. My wife kept asking if I still need it since I'd stopped brewing for a while and it was in the way etc... But then I reminded her of two things: First, when I'm not...

I'm brewing tomorrow and I was trying to input the AHS recipe into BeerSmith and it kept crashing. I just had the feeling it was Big Sur because it worked just fine the last time I brewed. The BeerSmith 2 page has it right at the top that it doesn't work and I need to upgrade. I'm not sure I...

My last batch got accidentally dumped :( It was in the keg in the fridge with the lines hooked up but the connector was slightly loose on the liquid side and with the gas under pressure it all just came out when I wasn't watching. It leaked through the pantry floor into the basement but no...

Just put a yeast starter up for an Austin Homebrew Winter hoppy ale. Doing BIAB as always. It has been a long time since I bought a kit of ingredients, I usually just do my own recipes. I'm using WLP041 Pacific Ale yeast. A starter may not be absolutely necessary but I always do it now since...