Recent content by MarkyMark80

Anyone else having trouble getting this to carb up? I bottled this mid March and I have only had 1 12oz bottle carb up properly. I mostly bottled 22oz bottles. The 1 12oz bottle i i did have carb up was AWESOME. I think I'm just going to keep sitting on this and waiting, it would be a shame to...

Hey guys, I made a stupid newbie mistake and probably only used 3oz instead if the recommended 5 of priming sugar when I bottled. I plan on letting the hefe that I made sit for at least 3 week at about 70 degrees. I'm just curious about what I could do incase it doesn't carb up. I'd hate to dump...

Hey guys, I'm ready to move this to secondary I think. I had an OG of 1.065 and now it is at 1.021. I keep hearing about this dreaded stuck fermentation at 1.021 (this is only my second batch). Is this ok to move to secondary now? I have had no activity in the carboy for over a week now. I...

I made this on Thursday night, this is only my 2nd brew and I NAILED the volume and OG right on the money. I'm really looking forward to this one.

Awesome thanks for the tips. I have read that I may want to cut back on the first hop addition by about 10% and add them with the last addition. Any experience with this?

Ok so add all extract at 60min for doing the full boil? That would be all the DME and LME at once?

I have a quick question regarding the direction. It says to start by boiling 2.5 gals of water then later adding 2 gals to the fermentor. This will give you 4.5 gals but realistically with the boiling it would be closer to 5. I will be doing a full boil as I have BK larger enough. What should I...

Thats pretty much what I figured, but I wanted to make sure. Thanks guys!

Ok so I'm making a starter for the first time last night and its my first time using a smack pack. I smack the pack, it appears to swell, I make my wort, sanitize and cut open the smack pack. DOH! The yeast nutrient didnt break. So I pitched the yeast into the wort, sanitized the nutrient, cut...

Wow, I actually made my starter for this kit last night, I'm glad I came across this post! After reading the posts about the possible stuck fermentation I am going to double my starter and let you all know how it goes. I am using a smack pack for the starter that comes with the kit. This is...

I race bicycles so that helps me offset my beer a night routine. I typically burn about 1000 calories a day, so 1 beer doesnt hurt.

Ha, thanks guys. I've dying to do this and finally said screw it and did it on Wednesday when we had the snow storm up here and I had a lot of time to kill. I think if I can move the process inside it will be much quicker as I wont be battling 20 degrees outside since I'm sure that effected how...

Hey guys, I finally got around to brewing up my first batch and its sitting in the fermentor right now. Quick question, I did a full boil but I think because of being outside I wound up with a ton of evaporation. I wound up with about 4.5 gals, maybe a little less. The fermentation took off...