Recent content by joesixpack

Thanks for the advice. I'll get more yeast after work 5:00ish, re-hydrate properly, toss it in, wait a few weeks and see what happens.

I made a stout last night. It called for the yeast to be hydrated with 4oz of water before adding to the wart. I wasn’t thinking (because I had been drinking) and put 4oz of water into a pan and set it on the stove, got the yeast opened the package sprinkled it in the 4oz of water and stirred...

He asked me to make it specifically for this party so someone will have to go and get 2 cases of beer to make up for it if no one likes it. Not that big of a deal but he lives 20 minutes from the store so 40 minute round trip. I guess he could buy a couple cases of a winter brew to have on hand.

I am kegging it and force carbonating after 14 days of fermentation for a couple days, we'll see what happens. Thanks for the advice.

I'm going to roll with it and try not to worry about it, which is highly unlikely. However, I've posted here a few times referencing my fermentation time and a lot seem to think it's two short. The recipe and all that i've made so far states 5- 7 days and then 5-7 days second fermentation then...

I am kegging it and the recipe calls for 5 to 7 days and then second fermentation 5 to 7 days. So by the recipe i should be fine. The real question is will steeping the grains at such a high temp cause the beer to taste bad and no one will like it. However, if i made it correctly people still...

At the end of the 30 minutes of steeping the grains were at 161F so they steeped between 198F and 161F for 30 minutes. I need this by the 17th for a friend who is having a holiday party. I could get a new batch and remake it tomorrow night or keep the ship a sail and see what happens. I...

Well i'm 16 minutes into 30 minutes of steeping and the temp is 167F. It was in the high 190's when i started the 30 minute steeping. I'm going to roll with it and see what happens. Maybe the orange spice and cinnamon will help with any bad flavors. Urgg... Thanks for you help! Mike

I'm brewing a winter spiced ale, said to steep the grains at 152 to 158 F for 30 minutes. I stuck the thermometer in the gains thinking that would give me a good reading of the gains temp. I smelled something kind of funky and put the thermometer in the water and it was almost 200F. I took...

So next time should I mix after topping off with water, then take the reading? Also, there was some sludge left in the pot which i didn't dump in. Should I have?

Made my beer last night took the og reading which is supposed to be 1.044 - 1.048 and it was 1.032. What gives? I made sure everything was clean, sanitized and followed the recipe instructions. I tell ya, if it not one thing it's another. Makes me want a beer.

Making a light golden ale and my stove just doesn’t seem to boil without the lid almost completely on. I accidentally left the lid completely on and the wart almost bubbled over. After taking the lid off the bubbles subsided but there was a bunch of hop like stuff on the side of the pot above...

I made an IPA a few weeks ago and went to keg it last night. The brew had a bunch of green gray almost like pepper on the top i siphoned a bit into a glass and there was quit a bit of the pepper like stuff in the beer. I found out after a few days of making the beer my air lock seal was torn...

So i popped the top and there was everything you said would be going on, foaming on the top, chunks of yeast floating on top, a ring of dried "stuff" around the top of the beer, etc. After further inspection of the airlock i found that the rubber seal was torn almost all the way off so i'm...

What should i be looking for from a hydrometer reading, something lower then my original reading of 1.040?