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I’m brand new to this to, but your 1.050 after five days might be affected by unmixed extract at the bottom of the fermenter that the yeast hasn’t got to yet. I know the instructions say toss the extract straight into the fermenter and I guess that’s what lots of people do. I make a big wort...

Fermentation is running nicely. It’s dropped from 1.115 to 1.075 in less than 48 hours. I’m having fun with the TILT, checking the SG every few hours. The airlock is running real hard, but no signs of impending danger. I have a blow off tube on standby, but doesn’t look like I’ll need it. I...

I’ve been thinking of ways to get the most out of my one temperature controlled fermenter. All my beers will generally be big ABV types that I want to bulk condition post primary. But I’ve decided that tying up my fermenter for 8 to 10 weeks per beer is not the best way to make lots of beer. My...

Disregard.

Seems you’re right. I hadn’t considered I would get so much out of the grains from just steeping. Yes I used M42. I think it should be a good RIS yeast. I pitched 4 packets and have a spare packet which I’ll use a bit from when I bottle given it will be a couple of months or more until I get to...

I have high hopes for this one. I just sacrificed a bottle of RIS from my first batch which has only been in bottle two weeks. I wanted to see how that base recipe worked out. It was good, nothing offensive about it at all despite its age. I think the long primary and conditioning helped. This...

I don't know, you seem to be doing pretty well. I'll play around with Brewfather tomorrow.

My recipe was in the first post and I was too lazy to re type it. For the grain I had 500g each of Light Crystal, Dark Munich and Roasted Barley and 250g of Chocolate. Interesting what you say about the Roast Barley, I thought seeing as it is not malted, you don't get any fermentables from it...

I chilled the wort to 30C and poured it into the fermenter. Poured cold water on top to bring it up to 21L for now. Checked temperature and it was 18C. What a guess. Pitched 4 packets of M42 yeast and then threw in the new TILT for its first run and then buttoned up the fermenter. I've got it...

End of the boil with everything in the pot and the EKG hops as well.

I hot steeped the Light Crystal and Dark Munich at 70C for 30 minutes. More sweet, malty liquid to try. Then I bought that to the boil and started adding everything else to the mix with 10 minutes left to run.

It was my first time using roasted grains. I steeped the 500g of Roasted Barley and 250g of Chocolate in 3L of water in the fridge for 24 hours, then added it with 10 minutes left in the boil. I was chewing on grain and tasting samples. The flavour and aroma was amazing.

Brew day was today. That's got to be the best part of the process. Or is it drinking day? I decided to take a few photos this time. I changed the recipe very slightly. The LHBS ran out of Medium Crystal, so I used Light Crystal instead, and I also decided to up the Roasted Barley to 500g. I...

The Grainfather has the 70L version to consider.

I used those blue HDPE containers from BCF that are specifically sold to carry water. When I put the hot water in those the plastic taint it put through the water was disgusting. It would have wrecked the beer. I have some of those clear spring water containers. I’ll try those with the hot water.

I sanitise the container with no rinse sanitiser first.

Thanks, all good. I’ll stick with my filtered tap water I think.

Do you sterilise your tap water?

I started off pouring the very hot water into HDPE containers but that was leaving a taint in my water, so now I cool it right down to room temp before pouring it in. It’s a bit more mucking around, so that started me thinking about just buying water.

I’m wondering where everyone sources their water for their extract brews. I have been filtering tap water, then boiling and cooling and placing in 10L containers for use on brew day. That’s a bit of work. I see some people buy spring water from the supermarket and just pour that straight in to...