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Sorry I also did stir my mash as I was adding it to the water. I am using a homemade mash tun from a 10 gallon water cooler from Home Depot.

I got all my malts from more beer.com pre milled they seem to be no less than 80%. They were all vacuum sealed. I also received an 8 gallon brew kettle for Christmas with built in thermometer and ball valve. Should I have done a temp test right from the start?

I let it sit for an hour at 155. I am alway worried about using too much strike water. Can that dilute my ferment able sugar amount? Also I will take the recipe adjustments into consideration. I just bought a bunch of grains to mix and see what happened. If I lower the specialty malts should I...

I am brewing a stout with 2lbs flaked barley 7lbs pale malt 4lbs chocolate malt 1.5lbs caramel 60 1.5lbs black malt. Mashing in @ 155 with 3 gallons sparging with another 2. After collecting the wort I have about 4 gallons after the boil I have a little less than 3. I added water to get my 5...

Ok thanks again for the good info

Ok thanks. I never had yeast buildup that lasted this long so I wasnt sure what to do.

I used kölsh yeast in my latest home brew. Its been in primary for 10 days and has a decent amount of thick kraussen on it. I understand that it is a low flocculating strain of yeast so should I filter it to a secondary to get rid of the build up? I took a gravity reading and it is at 7% abv.

Ok thanks for the help! I tasted a sample and it wasn't bad so I bottled to see what will happen after the next few weeks. Thanks again everyone.

Here is a pic of what it looks like

Have an all-grain stout that has a white film laying on top of the fermenting beer. It has been fermenting just shy of 2 weeks. Is it completely lost or maybe just star San residue?

Thanks for the tips and I always give my beer lots of love!

I currently have a 5 gallon batch of a maple pecan brown ale. I add the pecans from the beginning and leave them in through fermentation and add the maple syrup in the last 5 min of the boil. My OG is 1.056 and took a SG reading of 1.024 24hrs after seeing no activity in the airlock. I opened...