Recent content by ArtD

Thanks David!

Does carbonation in the beer affect final gravity readings? I was taking a final gravity reading over the weekend. I siphoned some beer from the secondary fermenter to a sample cylinder to take a gravity reading at the beginning of the racking procedure into the bottling bucket. The gravity...

Thanks Orpheus. This forum has a lot of good information. I learned a lot already and I know I've only scratched the surface. Can't wait to put it to good use!

Thanks for the welcome. I get my supplies at Maryland Homebrew in Columbia. Any BURP members here? I had to use google to decode the acronym SWMBO, although I understood the context . Thanks for the lingo challenge. BTW, for other newbies: SWMBO = Someone Who Must Be Obeyed

My name is Art. I've been brewing since the beginning of 2006. I still brew extract with grain steeping -- Can't invest the time for all grain just yet. So far I've bottled: Marzen Lager Belgian Wheat x 2 Oatmeal Stout Nut Brown Ale BlueBerry Kolsch English Bitter Cheers!