Recent content by Owaow

cooked up a lager in late Feb, ran thru primary fermentation at about 55F for 8 days, with a 2 day acetyl rest. Then racked to secondary on 3/7, and put in slowly cooled to 33F. Pulled it out of the fridge last night for bottling but, lo and behold, as the carboy sat on my kitchen counter, the...

thanks for the advice, all. I guess the question is whether to go with a long secondary fermentation, tying up my only 5 gal carboy, or recognize failure and pitch the stuff now and try again, with a good starter this time

both - loud hiss of gas on opening, foaming goes on for a few minutes.

A question about a six pack of Great Divide Denver Pale Ale: This was my favorite beer when I lived in Colorado. Bought a six recently in my new location in Western NY. Every bottle i open (3 so far) fizzes like crazy - lose probably 30% of each bottle to the head. would have expected less...

Last week, I brewed a batch of Original Ballard Bitter clone per Papazian's recipe in his Microbrewed Adventures book. It called for the usual ingredients (5 lg DME, hops etc) and Ringwood yeast. I found a 125 ml Wyeast smack pack of Ringwood @LHBS, dated 3/06. Followed the directions on the...

i'm relatively new at brewing. Whipped up a batch of a Snow Cap Christmas ale a few weeks ago. The OG was 1.078. Because the recipe said to, I racked to the secondary fermenter after a week. The beer was still bubbling merrily away at this time; SG was aprox 1.035 (target FG 1.020). Since then...