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forgot to mention a comment from my wife who usually doesn't care for the taste of my home brews. Her comment " This beer might not last too long" she is more of a Coors light style drinker

kegged my beer on 3-26-rgregoryirving gravity reading was 1.011. Force carbed and let sit 24 hours, pulled 1 glass and was ok( seemed to have a bitter taste, like peel/rhine) not strong but it was there. Anyway let it sit for 2 days and actually seemed to smooth out. Taste a mango on the initial...

So I brewed this Fri along with a IPA. I used 1 1/2 habs in the boil and followed the recipe. My OG was high(1.091) don't know how I ended up short on my water, anyway tasted my gravity sample and tasted no heat. Brought gravity down to 1.062 and tasted again, no heat. For those that brewed this...

blascar,rgregoryirving: I plan to cut and freeze them, should i take them out and let sit in star-san for a few minutes before adding to carboy? I'm brewing this friday, making my starter tonight. Using your recipe rgregoryirving (being that I'm not at the AG level yet) anything you would...

rgregoryirving, thanks for your help

sorry for another silly question but i only add to secondary right? if so why not add any in the primary

rgregoryirving, thanks for the reply and I'll take the advise on the mangos

blascar or anyone that can answer, I put the mangos only in the fermenter and don't add any to the boil correct? Never made a beer with fruit yet and plan on making this on Fri. Thanks for your help!

Surf, I have had the luck of getting them going by hitting them(compressor) with a hammer. I usually use a dead blow type hammer that way there is not much damage to the compressor, but i have used a ball peen. Most(not all) of the times that will by you some time, I've had them go for a year...

Did you degas it ? From what I understand it needs to be degassed before it will completely clear. I just made my first batch also a riesling, started on 3-11-12 degassed on 4-9-12 and is clear as can be. I'll be bottling it this week. I know its not much help! Good luck

Same thing has happened to me, all you see are little bubbles. Pitch it and watch it work. Its sound like a good starter to me:mug:

I will try to get rid of it by blowing it out. Thanks for the replies:mug:

I have some condensation in my CO2 line, any thoughts on it contaminating my beer when I force carb. it???

Count Me In:rockin:

thanks for the input, it didn't take them long to settle out