Recent content by biggerboat88

Death to the L-brush!

So I've had my brown ale in the primary for just over 2 weeks now. I took a sample last night to take a reading and dropped my hydrometer which shattered all over the kitchen floor...wonderful. I'm wondering if I'm safe to rack to a secondary? I'm still getting bubbling every 1-2 minutes from...

So I've had my brown ale in the primary for just over 2 weeks now. I took a sample last night to take a reading and dropped my hydrometer which shattered all over the kitchen floor...wonderful. I'm wondering if I'm safe to rack to a secondary? I'm still getting bubbling every 1-2 minutes from...

So I still don't have any activity at all, I was stuck at work all day but my girlfriend picked up some new yeast for me. If I end up repitching, do I re-aerate as well or just toss it in?

Alrighty then, I'll sit on it. Thanks for the advice and I'll be sure to pick up a new hydrometer.

At this point it has been about 18 hours. I didn't take a hydrometer, I guess one of my roommates took it because it wasn't with my stuff when I went to sanitize. I used a pack of dry Nottingham. I rehyrdrated the way I had been originally told, boiling 1 cup of water, letting it cool down a...

I've brewed a couple batches with friends at school but we graduated and today was my first solo batch and I fear that I've screwed up. I chose to rehydrate my dry yeast since that was how I had brewed before but this time I saw little to no activity in the water. I talked to some folks and...