Bolingbrook
Homebrew stuff: $100 for everything. must take everything.
I think most of it is from a Brewers best brewing kit.
Bottles:
12 x 22 oz
47 x 12 oz tall
45 x 12 oz short
Ice bucket for swamp cooler
Bottle tree (there are two more tiers - they have baby bottles on...
It probably just needs a little more time. I had very inconsistent carbonation in the first 4 weeks or so in my last batch, but after 4-5 weeks everything was great.
Yeah, I considered that possibility. The first bottle was only about 2/3rds full so I attributed some of the foaming to that. The priming sugar should have been mixed properly, I boiled it and poured it into the bottling bucket after it cooled. Then I siphoned the beer on top of the sugar...
I brewed the same kit on 11/26/11. I bottled on 1/7/12 - bottles sat at ~68 deg. On 1/24 I opened my first bottle after 48 hrs in the fridge and it was a gusher. On 1/31 I tried again and when I poured the glass was all foam and I had to let it settle. Finally this past Sunday I had a bottle...
I am brewing a Belgian Tripel, brewer's best kit. No sign of activity for 72 hours. Took a sample and the reading was 1.040, down from 1.082 OG. The guy at the LHBS sold me on a Wyeast smack pack 1388. After reading here I realized I had underpitched quite a bit because the LHBS guy did not...