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I'm planning to brew the Wild Women IPA recipe from the fourth edition of The Complete Joy of Home Brewing. After the wort is cooled, the instructions call to "strain out and sparge the hops". Are they suggesting straining the wort and then rinsing through what was strained out with a bit of...

Hmm, okay so let me make sure I've got this right. The yeast says ideal range is 59-75, which made me think 70ish room would be fine. But in actuality, I want the wort itself more on the low end, like 60-65. And because of the heat it's generating, the ambient temperature would need to be...

Based on other replies I am feeling pretty certain this is the problem. I used a hydrometer on a sample from the top at the end, after adding cold water on top of the wort, so it seems logical that I might have gotten water that did not have the sugars fully mixed into it yet. All the...

Curious how this works, Google is not being very helpful. My wife has been thinking of getting a refractometer for work, it would be interesting to compare in a few weeks.

Thanks for the advice, I will definitely look into these for future. For now, since I have the house to myself, I have turned off the heater and put on a jacket 🤣

Thank you for the encouraging words.

I used the dry yeast, Safale US-05. I have it sitting inside under the stairs, it's dark, although not quite as cool as I'd like. Probably around 70, but it's the best spot I got. Thought about putting it in the garage but was afraid it would get low enough to kill the yeast overnight. I...

It's plastic. I will definitely do that next time, thanks. So for this one, did I screw up anything other than my measurements? It seems to be fermenting away quite nicely at the moment, I am hesitant to touch it.

Hmm, I added the water and did shake it some, but I didn't stir it at all. "Rock back and forth" was their term. Do you normally stir it up? Definitely possible it was not that well mixed. I just checked hydrometer with some tap water and it was pretty close to 1.000. Not really too...

Hey all, I'm pretty new to this. I am trying to make the Northern Brewer's West Coast Radical Red extract kit. You can see the recipe here for reference. I thought everything went well, but I was disappointed at the end when I measured the gravity at only 1.026, vs the recipe's expected...