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Thanks, good luck with your blue moon clone. I agree it's hard to just leave it alone and give it time though.

So after another 2 weeks it finished at 1.018. Glad I left it alone.

I turned the heat on low overnight and the fermenting bucket warmed back up from 63 to 68. Now there is a bubble about every minute in the airlock. I know it was just mentioned the airlock is an unreliable guide, but it's a plastic bucket so I'm not sure there's any other way to monitor...

Good to know. I assumed if there was no airlock activity , CO2 was no longer being released because fermentation had ceased. I am a novice brewer, in my other 5-6 batches fermentation had finished when airlock activity was done.

Sorry, 5 days to be specific. When I left it was bubbling happily, the temp dropped in the house so I don't know if the yeast was doing it's thing but went dormant, because there were no bubbles in the airlock which was why I measured and found it at 1.030.

I pitched some White Labs Belgian Golden Ale Yeast in a belgian pale ale with an OG of 1.070. I went away for a few days and when I took a Hydrometer reading tonight it is still at 1.030. Should I pitch another vial of the same yeast? Do I need to make a starter? Any advice would be...

Thanks Calder. The White Labs yeast vial itself was what said "fermentation usually begins in 5-15 hours" but that assumed a temp of 70-75, so I probably should just have been more patient. Didn't use a starter, just followed directions to keep it refrigerated and take it out 3-6 hours...

OK - Good to know Kaz. I read that it should start in 5-15 hours. It had been 14 hours with no sign of anything when I turned the heat up, so I was dubious it was going to warm up.

Everything I can find about this yeast mentions the optimum temperature range, but I'm curious if anyone can shed light on off flavors produced by too hot ferment temps, or negative effects to the yeast produced by high temps?

I'm trying to make a belgian IPA of sorts, and I'm using White Labs Belgian Golden Ale yeast WLP 570. I pitched last night around 10 and thought my fermenter was in a warm place but when I woke up this morning it was at 63-64 F and no fermentation happening. I decided since it needed to be at...

Thanks for the clarification - I didn't realize there were only certain grains you could do SMaSH with though because I only have experience with grains through my LHBS. I just wanted to start learning about the ingredients better and using one grain and one hop seemed to be the best way to...

Thanks for the replies. I know it's not a true SMaSH but I've assumed to this point that malt extract is a neutral flavor so essentially it is still a beer with a single malt flavor (victory) and single hop flavor (mt hood). Please correct me though if Malt Extract generally adds a certain...

Just did my first Single Malt - Single hop. Just curious what everyone thinks about how it will turn out in terms of flavor. I brew with extract so I used 6 lbs of golden light DME and then 2 lbs of Victory for grain. For hops I used all Mount hood, 2 oz for 60 min and another 1 oz at 5 min...

I should have mentioned - it was only bottled 5 days ago. I got really overeager and couldn't wait 2 weeks +. The carbonation level seemed normal though.

I think you're OK - My aroma hops were supposed to be the "late hops" not the bittering hops, I correctly added the bittering hops early, but I added the aroma hops just after that, way too early so I had no "late hops".

Thanks for the replies. There were cascade hops and columbus hops in the kit. I realized my error soon after I screwed up the hop schedule, I just wasn't sure if it would add more hop bitterness in the end or less. It's still a solid amber ale, but I really prefer beers on the hoppier end of...

I just brewed my first batch ever, an IPA recipe kit from Brewer's Best (recipe in link below) and my only mistake I'm aware of was that I added the aroma hops toward the beginning of the boil, instead of at the last 5 minutes. I left it in the primary fermenter for 13 days, then bottled. I...