Recent content by FMWarner

Thanks! I'm going to try that, today is brew day. :mug:

I will be making a batch of ginger beer using the Mangrove Jack’s brand extract kit. I’ve made this kit before, it works great and it’s pretty tasty. However, we like our ginger beer bitey and peppery, and this kit leans more mild. I presume that I can kick it up using some fresh ginger, but...

Pirate Life Mosaic IPA. One of the best IPAs I've ever had. A bit of tropical fruit, but still beer flavored beer.

Updated now after I've had a LOT more IPAs... 1. Pirate Life IIPA 2. Ballast Point Pineapple Sculpin 3. Oskar Blues Passionfruit Pinner

I'll register another vote for letting it sit. I have a chocolate porter in the fermenter. After 8 days SG was 1.030, which I knew was way too high, but it registered the same 3 days in a row. I put the fermenter on a heating pad and gave it a good swirl every morning. It's now been in the...

Thanks, I'll try that. Like I said, it tastes fine, but I'd like a little more kick. I used all grain DME. Thanks for the tip! I used a 30L fermenter that looks just like this one: Thanks for the tip...I did give it a stir when I first brought it inside, and then again a few days...

Hi, guys! Everyone here is so helpful, I'm hopeful that someone can advise me on this issue. I'm brewing a Mangrove Jack's Chocolate Brown Ale beer pack. I tried fermenting outside for the first time because the weather was warm (mistake, noted.) For the first few days the fermentation was...

Thanks, guys! No dogs or teenagers here, although there is a cat who would probably have burned the house down if he drank 4L of cider. I did find a leak with my towel trick - there was one in the joint between the spout and the fermenter - kinda fooled me because I only felt the spout for...

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Hi all... I'm still very much a beginner, I'm only making my second brew. I have a curious situation where I've lost 4L of volume in three days from the fermenter, and I'm kind of at a loss to figure out what's going on. I'm making cider in a 30L plastic fermenter. Brew day was Monday, and...

The telephone. Not only for the invention itself, which is astonishing, but for the technological path it forged that led directly to the internet.

I just wanted to thank everyone for their help. After bottling, I went on a long vacation and just had the first taste (was bottled for five weeks). The beer is not ideal, but there are no signs of infection and the taste is pretty okay. The only drawback appears to be a bit of sediment in each...

Last night I had some Deschutes Black Butte Porter on tap for the first time ever. Brilliant!