Recent content by Bulldog5874

hmm, i have had trouble getting my fg below 1.020. i bet that has a lot to do with it. ill search the high fg thing.

So i'm currently drinking my second batch of homebrew and it keeps giving me terrible gas a few hours after i drink it. both batches have done this and my neighbors have the same gas after drinking with me. Both of my batches were force carbonated and the second one was even filtered with a 5...

My imperial IPA has been in the primary for 4 Days now and it is still fermenting well. I had an og of 1.077, and used a strong yeast starter. This is only my second batch of beer and i just calculated the ibus to around 86. I used northern brewer hops for bittering and cascade for aroma...

Thanks for the info, after a day and a half, the beer tastes a lot better. now ill wait a few more days before i really drink it. it was a brewer's best robust porter kit, and at the last minute i put a tablespoon of vanilla extract and 3/4 tablespoon of rasberry extract in it. so far it...

:rockin: thanks bobby, the taste is starting to go away as the co2 is absorbing more and more.

Last night I opted to skip bottleing and keg my first batch of beer. I racked my porter into the corny, making sure not to expose it to excess oxygen. I purged the air out of it and let it pressurize at 20 psi while i shook it a bit. Being my first batch of brew and the first time using...

Hey! from Davenport here, im new to the site and I love beer! i just started homebrewing and was wondering about the scene for homebrewers in the quad cities. I love bent river and front street, and i guess blue cat is ok. are there any events concerning beer or homebrewing that i should know...

I'm just now getting into the IPA scene, but with mixed feelings. there is a lot of overhopping going on from the standpoint of the ibu's not balancing out the malts and abv. Dogfish head 90 minute imp. ipa was the beer that turned me on to big ipa's . the ibu's are up there but it has the...

I used to play a lot at the paintball field, i had a fully auto gun that i ran a 20 oz co2 tank on. When i would go through long periods of rapid fire the gun would cool off and emit fog like condensation. I would always breakdown and clean/lube the gun at this point. I never noticed any lube...