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Thanks Doc! 🍻

Won't do any harm to shake it up while fermenting correct? If there is then I'll ride it out and check FG before bottling.

The wort was poured from boiling kettle to bucket (should be good aeration, no?). Topped off with water, yeast pitched. I took the reading a few hours after pitching yeast (wasn't active yet and I have a valve on the bottom so didn't introduce any O2).

Alright, you guys gave me hope on it haha. Seems the yeast is a lot more active now, after 36hrs

thanks a bunch for the feedback. I'll have to order that book. I will see how this turns out, I did order a new extract recipe from Northern Brewer (their instructions are very clear and easy to follow), to brew in a week because I am already writing this Conehead IPA off as a loss in my mind...

3.5 gal wort went into the fermenter then added water to get to the 5gal mark. But, yes, the instructions were plain terrible.

OG was 1.090 :oops:

I posted ingredients list/basic brew instructions

Just browsing through it you used 2gal of water, that makes sense. The first beer I did was extract and called for the same thing. But 1.5 QTS? literally 48oz of water to mash and another 48oz to sparge for a 3.5gal wort?! Seems wild and to be honest I don't think enough sugar was pulled from...

From what I'm reading the recipe I used just doesn't make sense. 1.5qt of mash then 1.5qt to sparge? Top with water to 3.5gal

I have very little space to work with currently, think I'll stay away from all grain for the time and stick with extract. I'll check out the section though.

The instructions were a very basic/general brew guide with a ingredients list. Honestly, won't be buying from them again until I get a better understanding of brewing (will stick to extract.) It just had a label LME #1/#2, #1 was 1lb (all it said was AT BOIL, #2 was the 7lb and said (at...

Thanks for that. Yeah the first one had a big jug of malt extract and this IPA had 2 bags, one malt extract at the beginning of boil (1lb) and another at flame out (7lbs). I was able to brew it today, much prefer the extract kit as a beginner.

The first beer I brewed was the Block Party Amber from NB, grains steeped in 2-3 gal of water for 45min. That made sense. 2nd batch today was from my local brew store (conehead IPA) and called for 1.5qts Per lb of grain, then sparging(?) the grains with another 1.5qts and finally add water to...

Well, I sanitized it before putting it in the hot wort, suppose that's a bit overkill but oh well. I'll post here in a week with updates

Thanks. It was sort of a mess. The chiller instructions said to add it to the wort 20min before end of boil. That significantly increased volume and made it pretty difficult to put in the 2nd extract which was 7lbs

Just curious, if someone was transferring from fermenter to bottling bucket would you add priming sugar then puree/frozen fruit THEN transfer to bottling bucket?

Thanks. Just pitched the yeast into my Conehead IPA. I'm a bit worried, not too sure how it'll turn out but I'll check it in 7 days for conditioning and to dry hop. Fingers crossed

Hello everybody, Glad to have finally joined. My Fiancé picked me up a beginner brew kit from Northern Brewer which came with the Block Party Amber Ale? The recipes from that batch where pretty well spelled out and had no problems. It was a very fun project. I ended up bottling the beer and...