Recent content by BORIStheCrusher

By reading the replies, doing some research and drinking a few I believe I know the problem. I never took an initial reading before adding the yeast and made the conversion to get an accurate reading. Over the past week I drank quite a bit of em, and after just a couple, I could tell there was...

Thanks all for the responses, and yes I was only taking readings after fermentation. I guess I thought it would still give me the same result. Although even if I was reading it off, my first batch still had a watery taste to it. But I'm going to be bottling my IPA this week so we'll se how that...

I did, and I understand you asking.

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I'm working on my 3rd batch now, and while my first two (red ale and IPA) came out with pretty good color and smell, they had a watery taste and an ABV reading about 1.5%. I'm new so I didn't expect it to be perfect, but the red ale was a recipe that came with my kit, so I have no idea how that...