Recent content by dayton102

ok... i was hoping to not secondary, cause my secondary is a bucket from homebrewheaven. but i got it off of craigslist and i dont know how its been cleaned in the past and was worried about little scrathches possibly being in the bucket. but the guy said he never used it... but who knows!! now...

so i have fermented my diamond knot ipa for a week and a couple days in a glass carboy. i was mostly following the directions in the paper that came with the kit. today i drew some of the brew out and tested it and got a reading of 1.016 and thought... "ok now when am i supposed to add the dry...

Oh yah! *slaps forehead* I knew the process just never put 2 and 2 together in my head! Lol thanks for the correction! Ill have all this down to a science soon enough!

The diamond knot kit I got tells me to secondary it so I'm sure I will end up doing that, I was happy to see I landed on 7.5 apv cause the kit said between 5.5 and 7.5!

!!! Good!!! Thanks guys! I feel a lot better about it now! And look forward to all the great advice on here!

so for my first brew i got a diamond knot ipa. i followed the directions well but the one thing i dont have is a wort cooler... i tried the sink with cold water but ran out of ice after an hour! so i cooled it for another hour in the fridge and it was sitting right at 80 but it had been so long...