Recent content by shotgunllama

Well my previous approach wasn't giving me either lol. Anyway my current batch is already down to about 1.0 and I think can get a little lower

So yeah upping the pH seems to be the best thing. SG is now down to around 1.02, and still occasionally bubbles. I'll give it some time and see how much lower it can get, but I can at least live with something that finishes close to that. Much better than the 1.05ish range it was stuck at...

So I finally got the pH strips and honestly had a bit of trouble trying to distinguish between the quite similar colors for 4, 5, and 6, but I'm pretty sure the pH was a little below 5, so I added some washing soda and tested again until it appeared to be higher, and ended up adding a few tsp in...

Yeah I'm on it. Few days til they get here, but at this point this particular bucket of wash may be beyond saving. I got another one started with Premier Cuvee yeast that I mentioned above, and it's a lot more active

So far the only pH strips I have only go down to around 6, so I haven't been able to test. I've tried adding some baking soda, maybe about 1/2 - 3/4 tsp total by now. Very little has happened so I can try some more I suppose

Noted for next time, but I'm gonna be starting this ferment sooner than anything I order could possibly arrive. I'm also planning to add about 1/2 cup tomato paste, after getting some advice elsewhere.

Okay I'm really at a loss now. Yesterday I rehydrated two packets (or 10 g) of red star premier cuvee yeast with a little white sugar to make sure it was alive, which it appeared to me, then pitched that liquid into my 5 gallon 1.06 stalled ferment, as well as a 4 gallon 1.03 stalled ferment...

If I have the space to hold onto it I figure I may as well see if it would work in some kind of small test batch. When I do end up needing to buy new yeast, any thoughts on if trying kveik again or something like EC1118 would better fit my goal of fermenting dry quickly with minimal grain in...

Well too late now. I've already used up the entire pack between this problem batch and one other 4 gallon batch of a slightly different recipe (the one possibly stalling at 1.03), so about half the pack in each. As long as these ferments don't straight up die, I'll try to harvest their yeast to...

I poured it from the packet to the jar as soon as I got it. I don't know how long it was in transit. It was in the fridge for about a week before pitching this batch (I also tried another batch of a slightly different recipe the day after I got the yeast, which seems to have stalled around...

I ordered a packet of hornindal kveik, and when it arrived I emptied it into a sterile jar and let the yeast settle out to the bottom. Then I decanted off the wort and topped it with filtered water and have been keeping it in the fridge. I'm about to stir up and pitch in all I have left, which...

I'm measuring SG with a hydrometer; should have mentioned that but it slipped my mind. It seems calibrated as it read pretty close to 1 even in tap water. "Ferment it" is what I'm trying to do, and what seems to not be finishing up

Okay I'm at the end of my rope here and surrounded by all kinds of confusion and frustration. I am trying to ferment a wash with Hornindal kveik because it supposedly can ferment nicely from a high OG and quite quickly. My recipe was: 5 gal water 1 tsp miso paste (yes weird but should provide...