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Do you have the recipe did that 100% Vienna malt Vienna lager. I understand that using only Vienna malt will promote a bready/ biscuity flavor which is what I want. Thanks!

both great ideas on hydrometer usage... i AM enjoying the playing around with this beer. i've never really done this before and i'm learning a lot. thanks for the input guys! it'll be pretty quiet for a week or so. the next thing in line is to rack it to a secondary. i think i'll do that...

so i decided to stop adding sugar. i will continue to nurse this beer and finish it out, but i think i've gathered the data that i needed for my eventual 5 gallon 120 clone. i only reached like 12% but i knew that i was missing about 0.050 worth of gravity from the grains (see previous posts)...

today i added 9oz more of sugar. this brings the adjusted O.G. to 1.122. the final gravity is hovering right around 1.030. today it was 1.032. this brings my current ABV to 10.4%. it bubbles away at about once every 5-7 seconds or so. i hope the WLP099 doesn't crap out too early. i've...

thanks to all three of you...i think i agree with all your comments. i did see that brew masters episode....heart breaking. lol. i think the newness of 120 has waned...it kind of is like having a kid. this week i've had to wake up at a rediculous hour for work (0300) and so feeding my baby...

after a few days of adding sugar, the fermentation has slowed, so i decided to dump the WLP099 yeast starter in. i've also been adding 6oz of sugar more often than i've been adding the planned 3oz of sugar. i wonder if i should have just planned on adding 6oz each time and then adjusted to 3oz...

so is a hydrometer reading the only really accurate reading? i just don't wnat to waste that much beer taking so many readings (2x every day) and additionally, i find it very hard to take readings with a hydrometer becuase there's always a tiny bit of foam adhering to the side and not allowing...

i added 6 oz of sugar this morning instead of 3oz because it looked like the fermentation was kind of sluggish. i was seeing a bubble every 10-15 seconds or so. i think it was a good idea htat i did. today at lunch i see a bubble every 5 seconds or so. so at lunch i added another 3oz of...

i don't know what that is, but i'll google it. thanks for the info! i'll start doing that!

i did a similar mount for mine with the elbow brackets exactly as you have them, but i didn't add the extra pieces of vertical strut that allow for a lot more vertical positioning of the burner. great idea! i wish there was a way i could change mine to look like yours, but i don't think i have...

you know, i've heard that before, but i've never figured out why people say that. can you elaborate?

well their websites operate exactly the same and i always wondered if the same guy operates both of them. lol.

also forgot to post a pic of the WLP099 yeast starter. this is the high gravity yeast from white labs. i'm hoping this will take my beer all the way down to 1.020 from about 1.131. i am still deciding however on whether i might keep adding sugar past the 25 packets i ahve. i think it will...

and the last picture i wanted to post was all my bags of sugar... and one thing i forgot to add earlier...i need to get a ladle of some kind. it was really difficult spooning out the wort with that long spoon. i could only get a little at a time and it was time consuming which opened up more...

woops...didn't mean to post that one quite yet.... so i had a bucket of sanitizer with a bowl, a long spoon, a hydrometer, my orange wrench thing, and a refractometer. i popped the top and then dropped the hyrdometer in to get a reading. it was 1.020 which was a little lower than i wanted...

so what i've been doing goes against all the sanitation rules i know. i'm just hoping i was fairly clean about it and that the alcohol level quickly gets to a point where no other bacteria or infection can take hold. i started by measuring out 3oz of corn sugar into a plastic baggy. the...

i did oxygenate for a minute before i pitched the yeast. i'm actually online today looking for ideas about whether to oxygenate anymore (enough oxygenation for yeast vs. oxygen after yeast are complete staling the beer). my fermenter was going vigorously on sunday and this morning, but after...

the first pic in this post is my current brewing set-up. i've recently started building a brew stand from super strut and it's been awesome. i still have a lot more to add, but for the time being, it gives me a great worksurface. in the bottom right corner you can barely see my floor burner...

first i gotta say thanks to my wife who made this brew day possible. a lot of my equipment came as a gift from her and she helped (a lot) in the actual brew day since my back is hurt. jaydogg...i feel your pain. i won't be brewing for a while after this either cause i'll be getting back...

you don't want to know how much that cost either. :/ but my wife is awesome and knew i had been looking for some 120 all over here and could never find it so she bought it for me in virginia (where we're both from). i certainly won't be drinking it quickly though. i plan on aging it for a...