Am I going to have a beer smelling apartment? - Page 3

jrakich87 · 10-23-2008, 09:37 PM

My first brew came with the true brew kit I bought... I used Munton's dry and mine finished .004 high and I bottled after it didn't move for 2 days, and it turned out fine with no bombs. I used a calculator for the amount of priming sugar though, and didn't just throw in the whole 5 oz they provided.

FreakinA · 10-24-2008, 01:47 AM

Well as an update, he plans on bottle ageing them as long as possible, however, we did pop one open today to test carb, and it made a very familiar beer opening sound when we did. We decided to pour it and it poured pretty much the perfect head. This boggles us. We drank that one, and are still alive, and are contemplating just trying to forget about this batch and fridging them all to cease carbing. We put 2 more in the fridge to try in a few hours, to see if they are all carbed so well.

**schweaty** · 10-24-2008, 02:36 AM

Hopefully you and your roommate don't explode

Chello · 10-24-2008, 02:41 AM

Well, maybe it was bottled a bit early. To avoid bottle bombs, why not just drink the beer as soon as it is carb'ed? Better to drink green beer than lose a hand opening a bottle...

Slappy White · 10-24-2008, 02:55 AM

FreakinA....welcome to the forums and a great hobby...it took a few batches for me to learn that it is better to wait....but it is definitely true. I would suggest putting them all in the fridge, get a few friends over and try and drink them pretty soon. You probably are getting some bombs otherwise. Don't worry about it, learn something from it, and get brewing the next batch. Good Luck

Gordie · 10-24-2008, 03:42 AM

FreakinA - that's a lot of carb in 24 hours (is that right? Just a day?). All kidding aside, you can get cut pretty badly by exploding beer bottles. Next to setting yourself on fire and dropping a carboy on your foot, its probably the most likely home-brewing related injury (other than drunken tomfoolery, of course). Be careful opening them and if you refrigerate them, see about isolating them in something so you don't have beer fountains going off in your fridge.

Good luck and welcome to the obsession.

FreakinA · 10-24-2008, 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Gordie

FreakinA - that's a lot of carb in 24 hours (is that right? Just a day?). All kidding aside, you can get cut pretty badly by exploding beer bottles. Next to setting yourself on fire and dropping a carboy on your foot, its probably the most likely home-brewing related injury (other than drunken tomfoolery, of course). Be careful opening them and if you refrigerate them, see about isolating them in something so you don't have beer fountains going off in your fridge.

Good luck and welcome to the obsession.

Yeah we chalked his first batch up as a tie, and I made him promise that he will never take anything out of the primary until its been there at least 7 days. We are scared of flying glass, and the beer carbs to a good although cloudy head, so we just popped them all in the fridge(except 2) and will drink them. They taste pretty good really. Thanks for all the advice, and especially Biermuncher.

Kauai_Kahuna · 10-24-2008, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by FreakinA

Yeah we chalked his first batch up as a tie, and I made him promise that he will never take anything out of the primary until its been there at least 7 days. We are scared of flying glass, and the beer carbs to a good although cloudy head, so we just popped them all in the fridge(except 2) and will drink them. They taste pretty good really. Thanks for all the advice, and especially Biermuncher.

That is why I made the second post, it was very harsh and un-called for and just for the record I apologize for it. Please chalk it up to a bad day on my part.

If you chill the bottles now you should be OK, have a good weekend and after the first few you will not even notice that it's still green beer.
Now just start the next batch so it can ferment, then condition, then bottle age.
Best of luck and I hope your batch comes out fantastic. This is really a great hobby and we all have a lot to learn and share.

FreakinA · 10-24-2008, 06:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Kauai_Kahuna

That is why I made the second post, it was very harsh and un-called for and just for the record I apologize for it. Please chalk it up to a bad day on my part.

If you chill the bottles now you should be OK, have a good weekend and after the first few you will not even notice that it's still green beer.
Now just start the next batch so it can ferment, then condition, then bottle age.
Best of luck and I hope your batch comes out fantastic. This is really a great hobby and we all have a lot to learn and share.

No problem man, It was my roomate's batch not mine, Mine is still slowly fermenting since sunday. We did however brew up another batch in now vacant fermenter, and are getting 2 more fermenters because I am REALLY want to try this apfelwein. The beers although super cloudy and green, are pretty well carbonated, and a near perfect head is a breeze to pour considering we brewed that batch up sunday. For him making such a big mistake it seems to have turned out pretty well.