No.Thank you.

Hello, I just took the second batch out of my Fermzilla and both times I have had gas leaks and liquid leaking from the collection jar. My first use I just chalked it up to user error. This time I sealed and tested for two days using 20 pounds of pressure and it held pressure and no Starsan...

Better yet.

Cascade and Centennial.

I normally call this beer Hotter Than Helles, I think this batch gets renamed Colder Than Helles. Thanks everyone.

Final update. Came home from work today and about a inch of Krausen in the fermenter. Lots of worry about nothing apparently. RDWAHAHB

I put the heat belt on it this morning and is up to 44 f. I think I might wait over night to see if I get any fermentation activity at 48. Thanks everyone.

I was really hoping to use the WPL838 for this batch but I may have to go the 34/70 route.

If the IT thing is being a dumb a$$ then I probably have IT locked down.

Hi, Not my best brew day yesterday. Made Helles and had several problems through the day but got through it and actually hit my numbers. Pitched yeast at WLP838 at 48 degrees around 6 last night. At about 7:00 my son in law is describing how he wants to led light my bar and back bar mirror and...

Brewing a Dunkel Bock New Year’s Day and had something I hadn’t seen before. During the boil I had a normal hot break and thenwhat appeared to be hot beaks multiple times during the 90 minute boil. I was boiling a little harder than normal to make up .007 points of gravity, but I have done that...

My bad! I didn’t specify. I should have posted the grain bill in the first post.

Recipe, Pilsner 4 lb 12 oZ Munich Malt 10l lb 4 oz CaraMunich 11 oz Crystal 120 11 oz Simpson’s Extra Dark 5 oz Melanoidin Malt 5 oz

Okay. I guess I shouldn’t worry about 6 ounces in a 6 gallon batch. Thanks.

I was worrying about astringency or the harshness that sometimes occurs in a stout coming through in a Dunkel. Probably just worrying too much.

Hi I was wondering if there would be any advantage to steeping the darker grains for part of the mash, 20 minutes maybe, versus just mashing them? Thanks

Wow!

I changed my formula so it is more in line with Brewer’s Friend. I’ve used Brewer’s Friend for a few years now and like it. I just thought it was odd using that simple 1 hop addition at 60 minutes that the difference between Brewer’s Friend and the recipe was 7 IBU. Thanks for all the insights...

To be more clear all 3 recipes use the same OG 1.055and volumes 7 gallons preboil 6 gallons post boil and 1 60 minute addition of a 5% AA hop. My sheet uses U = bigness * time factors. For the time factor (1-e^(0.04*Time))/4.15 For bigness factor 1.65*0.00025^(gravityAvg - 1) I am thinking of...

I was am brewing a recipe from a rather famous home brewers book and when I entered into my spreadsheet had a wildly different IBU result than the recipe called out. My next step was to enter it into the Brewer’s Friend IBU Calculator an the results were of course different again. Book recipe...