Recent content by NewBrew122

Hey all, I brewed a Founders Porter clone a couple weeks ago. I let it ferment for 2 weeks, took a couple hydro samples and it had reached FG, tasted a sample and it tasted like it was supposed to. I put it on gas for 3 weeks and went to pull my first pint the other night and it had a tart...

Did you brew this with the original grain bill or an updated one based on the SA website? And did you use the t-58 or some other yeast strain. I'm looking to brew this this weekend.

Thanks b-boy, when doing something like this would I just crank the CO2 on the primary for the total PSI necessary on the entire system?

Hey everyone, I'm in the process of upgrading my kegging set up to 4 kegs with a 5th carbonating. I was hoping someone could provide some insight as to a set up I'm thinking of putting together. Primary CO2 regulator: http://www.micromatic.com/draft-keg-beer/regulators-pid-642.html...

Yea the yeast they are sending in WLP300. Thanks for the advice! I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

Hey everyone, My first beer is in bottles and after trying one for the last two sundays I can safely say its tasting pretty good and getting better (it was a brewers best robust porter). However, the porter kit used dry yeast and the next two kits (Dunkelweizen and SMaSH Falconer's...

It's supposed to be between 1.012 and 1.015. In my haste I failed to check the OG (if I did I probably would have realized I didn't have enough water) but I haven't checked the FG yet because I was going to wait another week to bottle anyway so I figured id check it Wednesday and again Saturday...

Hey everyone, I just brewed my first beer about a week ago and I made a pretty dumb mistake in retrospect. After struggling a bit with the wort chiller (couldn't connect to any of my faucets properly) I figured out a way to get it flowing and in my excitement to finally finish brew day, I...