Recent content by purdon42

Yea I made the mistake of throwing an airlock on immediately and it clogged in like 3 days, switched it to blow off and its fine now. I also was using the same set up at you, glass 1 gal carboy. Live and learn.

Looks good! Better head than my first batch. Being patient sucks but I gave mine another week in bottles before cracking the first and it helped. Waiting on a Heady Topper clone now, cheers!

How long did you wait to get the FG? I thought my first batch, APA with Chinook, was going to be bad because there wasn't much activity the first week and a half, gave it another week or so and it kicked up a bit and turned out ok after 2 weeks in bottles. Not sure about DME being an issue, I...

Took a bottle of my first batch to my favorite brewery and they said it was well carbed..good enough for me haha

Correct, it came with drops although my previous batch I went the standard dextrose priming route for bottles. I think I'll stick to that. It's a Heady Topper clone so I think it'll be pretty resilient.

Yea that's what I thought, followed it anyways. Gravity was where it shoulda been, hopefully it's not crap.

Just finished off the beers from my first kit. Pale Ale with Chinook hops. Brewing a double IPA kit tomorrow with a buddy. Not sure about the kit tho, says to add priming sugar to boil. Oh well, we'll see how it turns out. (It came with drops for bottling)

Hey everybody, I'm Bill from Virginia. Definitely not new to beer but just got into brewing. First batch was a pale ale kit I had lying around, cracked my first one yesterday. Far from great but good enough to get me hooked! Looking forward to learning more! Cheers!

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