Recent content by Bones99839

home now Zymurgy vol 35 #5 September/October 2012 has that article incase anyone is interested

Either BYO or Zymurgy magazine just did a big section on adding coffee to beers, at work so I can’t give you the issue number but I did look online and found an informative article on it. http://***********/stories/item/315-brewing-with-coffee Not as good as the one in the magazine but...

@nate I drop mine in the boil for the last 10 to 15 mins to sanitize and have not had a problem yet. maybe one of the more expert brewers will address it further for you.

I made a Ribcage Chiller and it is one of the best things I ever did for my brewing. It really cools the wort fast. Go to You Tube and search user immolateus, he has a vid called "how to make a wort chiller" that is nifty. Its the vid i used to make mine.

Thanks for the feedback guys, going to crack one Wednesday during my brew day, hope it's good, will be 3 weeks on that day.

So I recently brewed and bottled a brewer’s best dunklewisen kit and I was wondering if anyone knows a good time to let it sit? I have read that wisen beer will go bad faster than other beers. Anyone know a good amount of time till it should be in its prime? It’s been about 3 weeks.

Yeah that was what I was thinking too, the carboy got almost like a slight condensation in the top now that I think of it so it probably was just a stall in the fermentation process. I was using the Dry Yeast that came with the kit, I believe it was muntons, I haven’t progressed to liquid...

So it’s week 2 in the primary and all the sudden the top of my beer looks like it is covered in spit and I have new air lock activity. Previously (last week) the airlock stopped bubbling and all the Krousen (sp?) dropped off now it looks like it is kicking off again. Is this normal or do I have...

yeah it was pretty primed to start with, i have a huge stine that i drink from it can hold 2 22oz bottles and half of one would foam it to the top then disipate rapidly but still had the soda feal to it. is there a way to figure out how much priming sugar i should use if im not at axactly 5gals?

@thelastdandy, I just used what came in the kit, it was pre-mesured for 5 gal so it may have been a little toomuch if i lost some liquid from transfer but i wouldent think that it was that much i bottled up and was 11ounces short of 5 gals. And I wasent watching the temp of the brew but i kept...

So I was drinking some of the beer from my first batch the other night. See my problem is that the beer was way over carbonated; it was almost like drinking beer soda. I used a brewer’s best American Bock kit and followed the directions for priming but it just doesn’t seem right to me, any help...

@Jay i have heavy drapes and dark blinds, the room is almost pitch black at noon, and the wife and i never open them so it stays realy dark all day. and yes im going to bottle in 22s to cut down on bottling time.

@ RM-MN i have it in my office and it stays about 70 due to my computers and being on an outside wall, i live in ny so its nice and wintery but this week it got up to 50 outside this may be the start of the end of days, hopefuly i will have a good brew to enjoy it.

Good to see that i dident mess this up or atleast not yet :) my dad used to homebrew back in the day so i would like to give him an acceptable brew for my first time. @Jay so if i leave the trub in the carboy untill im ready to bottle it wont make any difference? @birvine im thinking i want...

So its my first brew (American Bock, from a kit) i followed the instructions and everything seems to be correct, except i never took an original gravity because i dident have the right equipment, will have it by the time the brew is done just have to wait till monday to get to the store. So i...