Recent content by cburba

My first batch is conditioning now. I also used a big cooler in my basement but I have the top open a crack and it has about 4 inches of water in the bottom with a fish tank heater to keep it right at 69-70 degrees.

I am thinking now after reading all these posts that my best course may be to just leave it in the primary for now. I am going to just go buy another bucket for bottling so I don't have to do two seperate transfers. I am having to just convince myself that this is the first of many so I can try...

I was planning on an additional 2 weeks. My birthday is March 12th so wanted to bottle on February 24th so I can have in ready and chilled for poker night the 16th. So, transferring today would be fine you think? One of the reasons I wanted to use the secondary was that my primary is also my...

Hello everyone and thank you for any assistance you can give. I brewed my first beer on Superbowl Sunday. And American Amber. I had all intentions of moving it into a secondary fermenter exactly one week after but when I went to do it, I realized that my carboy wasn't as clean as I had thought...