Recent content by jlfindley74

Brewed a ipa Saturday night and after pitching yeast and transferring into primary, I realized that I'm about a half gal shy of 5 gals (see pic/tape markers on carboy). Is it too late to add another 1/2 of water? If I did, should I wait until I transfer to secondary? What if I added a half gal...

Holy crap I've opened a can of complex and overwhelming stuff... is there a easy answer? Like "buy this this and this and that's all ya need"???

If it was going to turn out as bad as many people have said, I don't even want to invest my time into the bottling process

Too late. It's behind me now

Ok, I've been a bottler since I started. I've probably brewed about 10-12 five gallon batches since I began brewing. 1 of which was a all grain, the rest extract. I want to know if any keggers out there have some good solid advice for someone who is looking to make the switch from bottling to...

Thanks for the feedback. Do you have a recommendation for a good Porter extract recipe? I will most likely wind up adding coffee and cocoa to it in the secondary

@ hio3791 - its not that i questioned the recipe, its that i simply didnt even read the line at the top of the piece of paper that the recipe was printed on that said "MAKES 2.5 GALS @ 75% EFFICIENCY" until the morning after brewing and assuming it was a 5 gallon batch. hey - at least it was...

it also appears as though i was mentally inept for a period of time yesterday. ill just call it "Moron Porter" and serve it to miniature gay unicorns who cant hold their liquor... OR - maybe ill just pour that watered down waste of my time down the fn drain and start over and pay attention this...

@ Yooper - sorry, not that much extract... here's the recipe and then under it, what i actually did. the original recipe, which states "Makes 2.5 gallons at 75% efficiency" Briess Sparkling Amber Dry Extract 2 lbs, 6 oz Briess 2 Row Caramel 120 1 lbs, 0 oz Tettnang, German Pellets 1 oz @ 30...

3lbs 6oz dme total.

what about the fact that it appears to be a 2.5 gallon batch and i turned it into a 5 gallon batch? surely that is going to greatly affect the final product....

well.... i just noticed the recipe says: "Makes 2.5 Gallons @ 75% Efficiency" i assume that means it should have been a final volume of 2.5 gals and not 5 gallons. so i basically thinned out my beer with 2.5 gallons of "extra water"... fantastic! maybe i should have read that before...

here is the recipe i used: http://www.brewmasterswarehouse.com/recipe/5728c878/ i added the Tettnang at 60 instead of 30. the only other alteration i did was adding 1 oz of simcoe at 5 mins left in boil.

unionrdr - sadly i had a brain failure. i told myself at the beginning of the process, "make sure you get a OG reading this time" and then, after i had pitched the yeast and stowed away my fermenter, i recalled, "damn! i forgot to get an OG reading!!!" oh well, i don't suppose there's anything...

so - adding 3 gallons of water to 2 gallons of wort doesn't affect the end product? the instructions were pretty generic. they basically said :top off with water to reach your 5 gallon mark once your wort boil is done and you chill to 70". it just looked like A LOT of plain ol water and...