Recent content by bockman

This batch is still actively fermenting. In the last 3 days SG went from 1.030 to 1.025. It's been 18 days in primary and still going. Still being patient. Is it unusual for it to be going so slow?

Well, I opened up that baby today and it smells heavenly. It's gonna be delicious! The hydro reading was a still little higher than I expected at 1.030 (OG was 1.070). There was a layer of foam floating on top (krausen?). With this info, do you still recommend racking now? Can I expect...

Thanks for the responses. I'm gonna wait a few more days. Jonesy & JR, I've read some of the discussions about secondaries and decided to give it a try it in the interest of clearing up the beer. I want to share my brews with friends and don't want to have to give them a lesson about how...

Haven't touched it since brew day. I want it to stop fermenting before I do. Has anyone else used this kind of yeast? Is it just slow at that temp with the heavier wort? I'll wait longer.

Hello all, I've been enjoying my 1st batch of homebrew while keeping an eye on my fermenting 2nd batch and had a question. Beer style is what the recipe calls a dark strong Belgian ale. OG was 1.070 White Labs Abbey Ale Yeast WLP530 Fermenter bucket sitting in water at about 66 F...

Wow! Thanks for all the replies. It's quite a revelation to me just how many home brewers there are out there. Now that my first batch is in bottles, my brew kit is idle. I need to start batch #2! Cheers!

Today I bottled my first batch of beer and find myself worrying about contamination. Not so much from brew day, but today, while clumsily racking to the bottling bucket I know parts of the tubing touched unsanitized surfaces then was submerged into the beer. Also after sanitizing them in an...