It is thanks! My yeast cake did not look like some huge hard solid mass like those pics above, but maybe what I was seeing getting kicked up was the protein.
Hey all,
Bottled my first brew yesterday. It smelled amazing, tasted good, everything went really well. But, I have a question, how do you get the last 1.5 or so gallons out of the bucket / carboy (no secondary) to your bottling bucket with out sucking up the yeast and hops? I feel like I...
Yes, I'm sure thats true along with my other hobbies... I opted to not go to secondary because I just didnt have the time to swap over to the carboy, so I'm letting this guy sit for 4 weeks and going to toss the hops in tonight or tomorrow and let it sit another week. Then bottle it up and let...
Hi All,
First off I am going to attempt to brew my first batch today of beer. The wife got me a kit for xmas from Northern Brewer and I've been adding onto it since then. I have a three hearted ale I ordered a few months back that I am going to do.
Anyways, wish me luck :) But I do have...
Kind of confused why you would return (and I assume pay to return) a perfectly good kit. I got one for xmas, I am just going to build upon what the kit gave me.
Actually stupid me, it was just the hydrometer that was broken not the thermometer... It looked like two different items that broke. Regardless, looking forward to brewing!!! Has anyone ever had an issue with midwest and shipping the wrong items or broken items?
Opened presents last night, the wife got me the Brewing Starter Kit from midwest. Only problem is the Hydrometer and Thermometer were broken in the box, and they did not send the carboy and carboy cleaner thing :(. I emailed them today, so hopefully I'll hear back over the next few days and...