Since I am low on beer, I am brewing in some new wine buckets I bought from a wine store for $2.00 each. I have been getting low efficiency, so I adjusted the dial up one notch. It must of somehow clicked down a lower notch, maybe. I have never touched it in 10 years. However, the specialty malts may of been milled too much. I got too much powder, so next time I have to lower the dial one notch for the specialty malts. It seems that the Canada Malt is smaller than the American and German malts. No surprise there. I thought these buckets were air tight. They are not. I added water and turned them upside down and no water leaked out. When fermentation started, there was no activity in the blow off containers. I checked and there was indeed a full layer of krausen on top. The lids even had a grommet in them. They are now buckets for grain, washing equipment etc...
14 Gallons
22 lbs. Canada Malt
2 lbs. Munich Malt
1 lb. Crystal 10L
1 lb. Carapils
80g Hallertauer - 60 min.
50g Nottingham
O.G. - 1.054
F.G. - 1,009
% - 6
SRM - 6
BU - 21
Efficiency -79%
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