midlife-u-turn wrote:I use us-05 pretty exclusively for my AG mashes and have always had good luck with it. I have a storage room in the basement that stays a consistent 65-68 degrees and works well with the 05. I think it is pretty common to do back to back ferments. I leave any sludge that is on the bottom and dump a new batch in, usually takes off very quick. I routinely get down to 1.00 with it, and I believe the worst I've gotten is 1.003ish. I
How long to get down that low? I feremented 2 weeks in the 10 gal vessels, the kind typically used for wine. They look like small garbage cans and instead of an air lock I just leave the lid loose and not snapped down tight, covered in a bed sheet for darkness. All activity seemed to have stopped after the 2 weeks but perhaps if I had an airlock I'd have seen a bubble periodically.