Recent content by bose301s

Well, tried the inverting method followed by 24 hours in the fridge and IT CARBONATED!!! Actually a pretty good little beer,not earth shattering or anything but still pretty good. We are learning to be more patient now, lol.

I am looking to brew a recipe I received, it calls for Cargill Special Pale Malt and I am having a lot of trouble finding it. I think the big problem is that it seems Cargill mainly deals with bigger guys, breweries etc. From researching it seems I could just sub normal 2 row pale or Marris...

They seem tight, but maybe not as tight as before. We have a good wing capper, has worked on every previous brew great. Only other thing I think is that these were different caps than we've used before, they were "O2 Absorbing" caps as opposed to standard, would that make a difference in...

We made a priming solution, 5oz corn sugar in half or one cup boiling water, poured that into the bottling bucked then racked to it. Sorry for any confusion.

Did not know that, but probably 12-18 hours, will try linger next time.

I see the 1-2-3 method mentioned a lot here, saying that it is for normal beers, with the amount of germentables in our beer would it not be considered a normal beer? Just wondering for future reference what can be considered normal to use the 1-2-3 method and what isn't normal and shouldn't use...

Well, been into beer since I was 18 or so (shhh, don't tell anyone!!) I grew up in Michigan, by far the best beer state in the country ;):p:D. I actually started off with Blue Moon, Oberon, Boston Lager and different Leinies beers instead of the cheap crappy stuff. Went to school in the UP at...

No, it has not been in the fridge, I grabbed 2 at about 4 weeks and stuck them in hoping they would be, when the first wasn't we didn't open the second and I forgot to take it out, the rest have been at room temp the whole time. Also, from the sounds of it the kits rush you, telling you 1 week...

Ok, just opened 1 up that has been in the fridge for maybe a week, definitely still flat at teh start, but as it warms up it is getting a bit of a head and some carbonation. I have hope for this yet. Also, I must say, having it sit for so long has been a pretty cool experience, I have really...

Sam Adam's Oktoberfest, never been impressed by a Sam Adam's beer, only ever felt a reaction of it's ok but not great to their beers, however this is up near the top of my Oktoberfest list out of more than 30 varieties tried.

I will disagree with you on this one, by far my favorite pumpkin beer over 2 years of trying them. Up to ~30 different ones me and my fiance have now sampled and it is both of our favorite one. Look's like Tyler's Taproom in Durham by DBAP. They had the Pumpking as their Pint Night special in...

Room temp, all our fermenting, secondary and bottles sit in our laundry/furnace room. We live in a relatively small apartment so it make it a bit difficult to find a good place. I will try your suggestions. Ok, we will start doing primary for longer and get a new hydrometer. Will look into...

Really? This was our first batch of our own concoction, was our 4th overall, and all the kits we've done have you primary only a week, so that's why we transferred it when we did. We broke our hydrometer making our first batch and just haven't replaced it. My work schedule has me working...

Well, not sure if this is the correct place to post this or not but since I am a beginner and it is somewhat of a beginner problem I will post it here. Anyway, we made a batch of beer from our own recipe. We used 1lb of Gambrinus Honey Malt steeped for 20 minutes. Then added 6lbs of Northern...