Recent content by Cincyfan78

Thanks for taking the time to let us know how it turned out. Too bad it didn't work, but a cool experiment none-the-less. Cheers! :mug:

What we like to do to avoid this is grab a few bottles of a similar style beer, and the blind taste test our batch along with the other beers that should be similar. That way, no one else knows which beer is which and they tend to be more honest about it. Plus, it's fun to compare and it's a...

So, the guy in the video...I know him. Good guy. Can't believe he did that. Also, this is super cool. Can't wait to see how this turns out.

Like anything else, people need to decide for themselves if it is worth it or not. Many people may not learn a thing about their beer or the process by having a few "early". Other people will learn a lot by doing so, as many have stated on here. The bottom line in all of this, like most...

I can totally understand why many seasoned brewers will wait a full 3-4 weeks until they know the beer is fully conditioned. However, for newer brewers, I would highly recommend tasting at least 1 bottle each week. It will help them to learn the early flavors of undercarbed beer, and green...

Make sure your bucket with beer is higher than your bucket you are filling. Natural flow keeps it moving. If they are both on the floor or equal ground, you are going to have a difficult time keeping the flow.

Sounds like to me that this was meant to lagger and you didn't do that. Temps were too high for fermentation, and that is causing the off taste. You noticed the smell right away possibly because the fermentation temps were immediately too high. Just a guess on my part, though.

Yep. If you are using a kit and following instructions, disregard the airlock instructions. That doesn't mean a thing. Think of the airlock as an escape route for any excess gas and that's it. Even after bubbling slows or even stops, the yeast are still cleaning up. The active portion of...

Many people use a blowoff tube and will wait 2-4 days before deciding to remove it and replace it with an airlock. You can do either. It's simply a matter of preference.

It's really a matter of preference. Most people are coming around to the thought that a secondary isn't needed unless adding late additions, such as hops or chips, and even then a lot of people are just throwing them into the primary. Leaving it in the primary for 3 weeks allows the yeasties...

Give it time. You can't rush perfection ;)

You'll be fine. If you noticed that air bubbles were still appearing when you placed the airlock back on after the blow off, that should tell you that you had a pretty nice layer of CO2 covering your beer and forcing gasses off pushing the 02 away from the beer. No worries there. As for the...

You are good, it looks like. Relax and have a beer...I believe that your beer will be just fine.

Who doesn't love icing on cake? I mean, who the hell eats cake with no icing? No one, that's who! LOL I'm guessing it is the yeast they are tasting, though I've not had any issues with my beer. Everyone who has had it has said it is as good, if not better, than similar commercial brands.

Really, I believe that the clarity that some achieve when racking to a secondary is simply because they are letting the beer age/condition extra time. For a person who ferments in the primary bucket for 3 weeks and then goes straight to bottling for 3 weeks is conditioning the beer for 3...