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I haven't taken another gravity reading but the brew was fermenting well since I last wrote in and I am moving it to the secondary fermentation tonight as per the recipe. Does it matter if it's in the plastic bucket or carboy for the secondary?

I'll take another sample again tonight but it still doesn't explain why I don't see the beer fermenting like it should. Am I not just supposed to read the side that goes from 0.990 to 1.170? I looked online and saw a Youtube video about reading the hydrometer and realized that there would...

Also, the thermometer I had with the kit only went up to 100 degrees F so I couldn't use it during the brew process and only could when we cooled the wort and then added the water to the carboy. It's possible the steeping temperature of the grains could have been a little high but we followed...

I'm pretty sure. I read the instructions before I used it and I even spun it to get rid of the bubbles like it suggested. If I have more than 5 gallons of water which I'm sure I do that would make it read lower. I have approx. 5.2 gallons as I have a measuring cup in litres and I did 10...

Here is the link to the kit I used. http://www.brewersbestkits.com/pdf/1029_Dunkelweizen.pdf

It was the Brewers Best Dunkelweizen kit and it is an Extract kit. I measured 5 gallons in the carboy and filled the wort up to that level when we siphoned it from the brew pot. We cooled the wort using a wort chiller to approx. 70 degrees and added the water at the same temperature. Once we...

A buddy and I just brewed our first batch of beer (Brewers Best Dunkelweizen) and I haven't noticed any fermentation. I have been contacting someone at Brewers Best and am now worried that the beer won't ferment. The kit called for an OG of 1.045-1.053 and as of last night (3 days after...