Recent content by Accoustiknoyz

Wondering what cap choices for using the 2 liter bottles? Can you reuse the ones they come with?

Are you using new bottle caps? If so where do you get them?

Just to further reinforce my Pale Ale was flat the first time I opened it after 10 days. Now it's been a month and it's got the bubbles necessary to make the grade! I think it'll come around. I recently did an EDME English IPA that really pleased me and all those who've tried it. Clean and...

You'll be happy to know all of the best ones I've made to date seem to have had some sort of glitch like that. The IPA blew off the airlock on the first night and after sitting there open all night, wouldn't you know this beer turned out great!

Thanks for inspiring us all on July 4th! I'm getting a strong urge to go buy the ribs for tomorrow. I've got a blonde pale ale on the primary. I think I'll put it in the secondary tomorrow, drink a IPA and cook some ribs. Thanks for the pics!!!

Thanks for a cool site folks. Good to learn from all of you. Well my EDME English IPA's been in the bottle about a week and I had to sample (it's young, I know). With a moderate pour I got a inch of foam on top of a nice ice tea colored IPA which has a good taste. I expect aging will turn it...

Hey Newbie. I'll share a story that might help. At a friends house we made a mostly grain bock beer and put the fermenter in the dining room with a thermometer on the side. Bob calls and says Oh man the beer's gone crazy and its about 80 degrees cause the sun shined on it. I said PUT IT IN...

Hey Malkore. Seems the same thing happened to me. Lost interest when I didn't understand what went wrong with several batches. 5 gallons of bad beer (several times) can take the fun out of it. I did have several that were perhaps accidentally awesome. No matter, I just bottled my first in...

Ok I'm jumping in as well. I just bottled the IPA that I'd been making. Now I'm looking for another idea as well. Not big on Stouts or Porters. I was looking for something with a sweet malty taste and a creamy head in the glass but not one that keeps you from pouring it. I think I made a...

Pitspale I had my airlock in a rubber bushing in the 5 gal glass carboy blow off on the first night. I boiled some water, threw it in and then cleaned the upper part of the mouth of the carboy with a moist paper towel with a little clorox spray for sanitation. The wort had plenty action so I...

I'd like to jump in here if I can because I was all for taking gravity readings and racking to a secondary, but ran into troubles. Sanitizing is kind of laborious but having done so with the tubing I intended to siphon with I still ran into trouble getting a siphon started if I put much...

Thanks for the quick replies. I'll leave it then and reduce risk of infection or off flavors. I think the 2 at once experiment would really help define the differences. Let us know how that goes.

Hey brewers, I have only brewed a few times and was wondering the necessity of racking to a "secondary". I mean, it seems a lot of trouble keeping from oxidizing and maintaining sterile conditions, so does the benefit (clarity?) outweigh the risk? Here's where I am now. I've brewed a 4 lbLME...

Googled Homebrew...there were lot's of sites. Yours had easy navigating and people talking about stuff that matters.

Thanks David, I shoulda thought to take a pic! Well there's still no bloops but a few tiny bubbles around the rim...so I guess I'll let it go a while. It's been goin since 6/3.