Recent content by Ocal83

I have been reading this forum for over a month now. Everyone here is enthusiastic, friendly, and always ready to answer us "Newbies" questions. I don't think i truly grasped the obsession aspect of this. Until now. I sit here drinking my first attempt at a homebrew. It is a little flat...

Thanks for the replies. Its bubbling this morning. Should be good to go.

i did the quick pitch because i brewed as soon as i got home from my LHBS. Next time I will plan a little better and have it inflate first. Thanks for the quick post.

Today i brewed my second beer, an Irish Stout. All went well until I had to activate the yeast. I followed the instructions on the back of the packet, which said to locate and move the inner packet to a corner and then pretty much smash the crap out of it until it breaks. I did this...only i...

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Thanks for all your replies. I have to say everyone is very positive and makes this a very addicting hobby. Now onto my beer: I didn't have a blowoff setup so i attached the bung with the airlock. 5 hours later, when i woke up to let my dog out, the wort had foamed completely through the...

So I'm brewing my first homebrew... Everything went very well (boil, cooling the wort, adding to water in the primary fermentor, pitching the yeast) until the very end. The rubber seal on the fermentor's lid fell in when i attached the airlock. Hindsight says i should have attached it...