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Thanks for the suggestion. The ground water around here in winter is about 50F ... I checked the wort temp using my Thermapen - it was about 60F. I agree - I find it hard to believe that the yeast has become inactive or dead within 3-4 weeks. Never seen anything like this... I am stumped. Maybe...

I was planning on brewing 10 gallons of a Munich Helles Lager - but can only do 5 gallon batches on the Grainfather. So I did 2 separate batches. The first batch got a 2 Qt Starter of Wyeast 2308 and it took off within 24 hrs in a Grainfather Conical Fermenter. I finally kegged that beer using...

Hi Experts, Just brewed a 5 Gallon batch of Munich Helles lager using Wyeast 2308 - and it is looking really promising. I have a Grainfather conical and I am cold-crashing for kegging later this week. I have enough ingredients to make a second batch of the same Munich Helles. I have read that...

I made a Guinness clone on Monday this week. I wanted to hit an OG of 1.048 ... but my efficiency exceeded my wildest expectation. Instead of getting a standard efficiency I usually get - around 75% - I ended up getting a 83% efficiency and an OG of 1.054... oh well. I cooled the wort down to...

Brewed an NEIPA about 10 days back... OG was 1.068 (Refractometer). I pitched Wyeast 1318 London Ale III yeast after cooling the wort to approx 64F. I aerated the wort (before I pitched) using a stir stick on a power drill.... Typically the recipe claims that the fermentation is done in 5-7...

Has anyone experimented with cooling the Grainfather Conical Fermenter with a simple cooling kit running ice water? What was the lowest temperature you got to? I am in the middle of brewing a lager and I used a simple grainfather cooling kit with a cooler filled with ice water @ 40F. I could get...

I have a Grainfather Conical Fermenter which has a built-in cooling sleeve in the body. I use a GF "Cooling Kit" connected to a 48Qt Cooler filled with Ice/ water mixture. I have been able to get the temperature of my wort down to about 51F after 12 hrs. I am brewing a lager right now... so if I...

I just tried to transfer a NEIPA I brewed from a Grainfather Conical fermenter to a keg using a pressure transfer kit and failed miserably. I started out by filling my keg with Starsan - and purging it with CO2. The black liquid QD allowed all the liquid to come out fine. Then I connected the...

Okay - I had a look. Shining a light did not reveal any significant krausen formation on the top of the bucket. I took off the airlock and peeked through the hole and I could still see a bit of white foamy layer... nothing resembling krausen. There was no "off smell" - it smelt like good sweet...

Hi Experts... I got my second 5 gallon batch of AG beer going (mostly 2-row malt). After cooling it down to about 76º - I aerated it with a power drill and it created a thick layer of white foam on top of the wort. I pitched US-05 yeast directly on top of this foam without rehydrating. It took a...

Hi .. I brewed my first Hefeweizen using a combination of Bavarian Wheat DME and LME. I use WLP300 yeast for this batch. I also used a brand new Grainfather conical fermenter & pressure transfer kit. I had created a yeast starter and pitched about 1.5 quarts into a 5 Gallon batch. I had also...

I bought a Grainfather Conical Fermenter with a Pressure Transfer Kit. I was going to use this to transfer the NEIPA I have going to my keg. I just found out that the gas line that comes with the Grainfather Pressure Transfer kit is not an SAE standard size. I believe its 5mm ID. The closest SAE...

I wanted to create a yeast starter for my next brew. I mixed up some DME and boiled it in a 3L flask. As i was cooling the wort before pitching the yeast - I discovered that my stir plate wasnt working anymore (I had built it at home and probably burnt up some component). As it was pretty late -...

Looking for some best practices. I typically use a muslin bag weighted with a shot glass to dry hop my beer (I use a standard plastic homebrew bucket as a fermenter). I have read that hops need to be "just spread" over the surface of the beer to get the full benefit of dry hopping. Is that true...

So I did my third batch with borrowed, on hand ingredients plus a few extras. A friend had a 2 month old liquid yeast from "Escarpment Labs" - Irish Ale Yeast which he was not planning on using... so I thought I would use it with some roasted barley and cara 85 I had on hand. I used an Irish Red...

I built a stir plate using the instructions at http://seanterrill.com/2010/04/26/build-a-better-stirplate/ Great instructions... and for a while everything worked. I even managed to get a 24 hr yeast starter done on this stirplate. But suddenly the fan stopped spinning. When I take a multi-meter...

Thanks guys ! Sounds like an idea. How about aerating the wort during initial fermentation?

Hello... I am a newbie brewer. Not sure if this is the right forum to ask this question. I am thinking of moving from my 6.5 gallon plastic bucket fermenter to a new Grainfather Conical fermenter. I am looking to brew a Belgian Tripel for the first time. I have heard that the fermentation can be...