Recent content by grasshopper1917

Hi, I have never dry hopped before. Picked up a Festabrew to knock out a quick beer for after the holidays. It has been fermenting in the primary bucket for 11 days and i tossed in on ounce of cascade pellets to add some hop flavor. I just took the lid off and threw them right in. I plan on...

This would be a very easy starter beer. One Mangrove Jack classic bitter kit mixed with a 1KG pack of Muntons Brew Enhancer. Topped up to 19 liters.

Ok great. No its not hard or anything it is nice and powdery. Sounds like I will be brewing tonight. Cheers.

I was going to do a quick kit and kilo and picked up a pack of Munton's Beer Kit Enhancer (to sub instead of dextrose). The Enhancer comes in a plastic package and looks like it is just dry spray malt and dextrose. However I noticed there is no date on the package. Should it be ok to use...

I brewed it 1.5lbs of liquid glucose - 1.5lbs liquid light malt extract boiled in 1oz of cascade hops for 20 minutes (boiled in the LME and glucose). Topped it up to 20L. Tasty beer.

I brewed one a couple weeks ago. Wasn't all that bitter. Actually had a bit of a sweet after taste all and all a decent beer.

Well we are in the middle of a hot spell so the ice packs melted while i was at work and wort rose to about 73 - i guess it is likely going to be just a mediocre beer. It is fermenting pretty steady now. I will have to live with it - one of the pains of summer brewing without temp controls.

So last night about 9:30PM I was brewing a simple kit and kilo style kit. I boiled up some hops in the additional malt I was adding. Added the kit and topped with cold water but only got the wort temp down to 88. So here is basically the timeline. Pitched 14g of coopers yeast on 88 wort (ohhh...

I used to rack for my first 4 years brewing - cause that how I was shown. The past 4 years I have given up racking and have seen no difference. So I would say don't bother in my opinion.

Ok so I was shooting for an FG of 1017 - reading after a week was 1029 -- I pitched another packet of yeast on the wert..... Is there any harm in pitching the extra yeast?

Ok so I brewed 2 Barons kits with terrible results my HBS offered to give me another one to try free of charge so I did. I brewed the kit last Thursday evening - Friday afternoon we had bubbles in the airlock which continued to about Sunday evening. Since then not only have the bubbles...

I have brewed some black rock kits. some things I think will help improve the taste are 1) Only brew them to about 19L 2) Maybe try using 500g dextrose and 500g malt. I think 1kg of malt added is too much unless u add additional hops for flavoring. Hope this helps. Cheers

This is an awesome kit, for 19l id go 500g dry malt and 500g dextrose. I did a video on the kit I brewed a couple years back. Enjoy!

Yea im going to run out and get a new hydrometer tomorrow lol Lesson learned

Weird thing i dumped bout 8 after they chilled a bit in the freezer -- they weren't gushing (although they were pretty carbed up). I knew something seemed wrong when i was bottling because the beer tasted really sweet -- then i tried one after 1 week and it was sweet almost like taffy. Im taking...