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Thank you for the answers, everyone. I am not measuring the temperature of the wort. I have one of the stick on "starter kit" thermometers on the side of the glass chorboy. I'll start measuring the temperature of the wort itself.

Hi all; I've noticed that my fermentation is taking a lot shorter time than what is given on my recipes. The last two brews were supposed to take two weeks. At 9 days the FG was within the range. This time I'm brewing a raspberry wheat. The SG was right in the range (1.042-1.046). The FG...

Edit: Never mind. Garbage in, garbage out. :) I'm a brand new Beersmith user and a very rookie brewer. I thought I would learn beersmith by inputing a known recipe kit. So I used Midwest's Hop Scare IPA recipe and put it into beersmith. However, the numbers for estimated OG, IBU's...

Yes, I was planning on checking the gravity and moving to secondary fermenting after 2 or 3 days of steady readings. The only reason I cracked it open to check the gravity so early was because the bubbling stopped so noticeably. My recipe doesn't call for any hops after the primary...

Thanks for your help and postings everyone. The education is very much appreciated.

Will do. I don't understand why the instructions are so different from your advice. But as a rookie, I certainly take advice when I ask. Plus, as I said, the beer tasted good to me :mug:

Greetings all. I have a question regarding a batch I'm brewing. This is my second brew, and I'm using the Hop Scare IPA recipe from Midwest. The recipe puts the SG range at 1.058-1.062. My reading was 1.066. I use a glass carboy for fermentation, and the temperature was a steady 68...