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Brewing about 5 years now and for the first time ever I pitched WLP550 into low 60s wort, left rise to room temp (67-ish) and had zero airlock activity after 24 hrs. Popped the top to see absolutely nothing but sweet, clear-ish wort. Nary a yeast bubble, raft, or other such action. Well I'll...

Hey all - brewed up an ordinary bitter with WY1469 and it seemed great in hydrometer. After 2 weeks ferm (FG x1 week), I bottled. First bottle cracked tonight = strong sulphur. Totally bummed, wondering what advice folks may have, if any. Was thinking of popping the lid on a bunch of them...

Brewed up Lakewalk Pale Ale on Friday, 11/13 (if superstitious, you should probably stop reading :)). Day 4 of primary almost complete with a big slowdown in airlock activity (a somewhat subjective measure, I know). Heading out of town for a week on Monday, 11/23 (day 10). Have some...

I brewed El Camino Black Strong Ale a few weeks ago. It's a collaboration recipe out of BYO: http://byo.com/grains/item/2935-el-camino-un-real-black-ale All went well and I'm about ready to add bourbon-soaked figs. The recipe says basically 1 oz chopped, soaked figs in secondary, along with...

Hey folks I got called away while the flame was on under the mash trying to get to 153. Ouch. Moved up to about 200 before I got back outside. Is the mash salvageable by taking grain out (already took out - BIAB) and putting the bag back in at 153? Its my Super Bowl Stout, lol :(

Hey just got a new Barley Crusher grain mill for Christmas, pretty stoked. More control and tightening up my process. One question I came up with pretty quickly was: do you crush solo or have someone help? I'm assuming most go solo and I just wanted to make sure I understood how. I was under...

Available on the web with a Google search is the recipe listed below. I'd like to make a chocolate oatmeal stout that isn't weak on chocolate, coffeee, or smoothness. When I plugged this into Beersmith it looked a little light in color and I'm wondering how much chocolate and coffee I'll get...

Kind of an odd thing happening with my recent IPA. Yeast is Conan, built up from 2 cans of Heady, 400ml - 800ml -1.5L. Fermented vigorously for about 3-4 days, then absolutely ceased airlock activity. Gravity down to about 1.011, which is basically expected FG. Dryhopped in secondary on day...

Just what the title says, building my first recipe. It's really out of a desire to brew another beer with Conan yeast cultured from cans of Heady Topper. Goal is for a nice, relatively simple citrusy IPA that's refreshing and will enable me to wash this yeast to share with a brew buddy. Batch...

Don't know if this has been asked before - when doing first wort hopping do I use the 60 minute boil option? I know I can chose FWH but it still requires a time in boil value. Only reason I ask is because somebody said to change that to 20 min, which I don't believe is correct. The total IBUs...

I've never tested for conversion. Brewed Jamil's dark mild yesterday and seemed to hit all the gates w/no issues. Gravity readings came out solid, right in line with Beersmith's projections. The hydro sample barely had any sweetness to it though. Now for my question: if your gravity readings...

As stated, would you legitimately be concerned about a 4.25 gal or so batch going into 5 gal secondary for a second stage dryhop (headspace)? First stage will be in primary (loose whole and pellet hops). Second stage same thing. I could try bagging first dryhop, pulling when done, then...

Recently successfully harvested some yeast from 2 cans of Heady. Started with a 300ml 1.030 or so starter and stepped that up an additional 1300 ml/1.040. Got a pretty large krausen (several inches high) and lots of activity in the erlenmeyer flask. It is settling in fridge now and I have...

Jamil's APA, all grain 3 gal batch BIAB. Pretty sure the crush was too fine from my LHBS. Another good reason to get a mill probably. Preboil gravity was 10 points higher than it was supposed to be. I did bump the base malt up a bit. Mashed 75 min also, which may have contributed. Then...

Snapped this photo of my choc hazelnut porter @3 weeks in primary. Its at FG and hydro sample tastes great. Anything to be concerned about here? Thanks for any feedback!

Jamil's choc hazelnut porter question. Added 8 oz Hershey's unsweetened cocoa powder with a few min left in the boil, mixed well. Been sitting in primary for 2 weeks now. Looks like bottling may not happen for another 2 weeks due to schedule. Any harm in letting sit on it 2 more weeks? I do...

Just sharing an experience I had recently. Brewed up an American amber, a little high on the OG at 1.058, fermented with WLP001 California ale with 1.5L starter. Nice healthy krausen within 12 hrs, a bit of blowoff. At the two week point it had dropped to 1.012 (close to 80% attenuation) and...

Going on vacation Saturday. Both primaries in sig have been kept 65-67 in swamp cooler. Any harm in letting them free rise to low 70s for a week while gone? One with US-05 and the other with WLP 001. TIA!:mug:

I'll actually remember to add the Irish Moss! :(

There is a recipe in BYO (May-June) for a ginger saison. The very first hop addition is stated twice for each method of brewing (AG, PM, extract). What I mean is, it says "0.4 oz Saaz (60 min)", but then it repeats that same line right after it "0.4 oz Saaz (60 min)". So why not "0.8 oz...