Recent content by nytimez

Nice to know they're still brewing, that it wasn't just a Super Bowl stunt.

I was expecting stupider. You let me down, OP! ;)

This part -- details, please. Ideally in comic-book form, if you can!

Better than "wort on my stuff."

Make a second beer in the same style with twice as much hops and mix them together. No idea if that would work, so don't take me seriously... but I'm curious to see what more experienced brewers come up with, just in case this ever happens to me (since I'm perfectly capable of forgetting just...

my reaction too

Rest in peace

I fermented my first brew (an English bitter) in the low 80s a couple months back, was really worried about it. I was obviously unprepared for the hot weather. I wouldn't do it again... but the beer turned out just fine (so far -- almost three weeks in the bottle and it tastes great)...

+1

Wow. I don't know what an infection looks like. But if I had to guess, I'd pick that.

Thanks -- I've never seen one of those... but, like I said, I'm new to this. Is there an advantage to getting rid of the ring around the color?

I was wondering about this too. I'm new to this -- just two batches now -- and didn't remove the krausen ring for either (until after I was done, when I cleaned out the entire bucket). Can someone explain this to a noob? Thanks.

Congrats, I just popped open my very first homebrew a few days ago -- just 10 days after bottling. Too early, I know, but it was already fully carbonated and tasting smooooth. I had my second yesterday at 14 days... and promised myself I wouldn't open another until day 21. Can I keep that...

The Wyeast site says 3724 can go up to 95 degrees -- but Wyeast and some of the threads I've read here say this yeast can suddenly "stop" for a while. But maybe this is a better choice: That's not part of the temp range on the Wyeast site (which lists it as 65-77F), but I'll take an...

A friend of mine just brewed with the Midwest Groupon starter kit -- he needed a big spoon and a thermometer, neither of which came with his kit. You might want to make sure you have those things handy.