Recent content by rickyspalding

Thanks, ive uprighted everything and plan to put in my mothers garage, where I live gets too hot.

I have been wondering for quite some time on some possible issues of how I have been aging my beer. These are beers that I have bought. It seemed a common way was a dark dry cool spot. Now my concerns.... I have some beer laying on its side like how you would with wine. I do have some...

it would be nice to have a walk in cooler and adjust temp accordingly

I just bottled my porter, 5.5 alc%. The brewers best instructions says to leave in temps of 68 to 72 degrees. The avg temp of the dining room is 80 degrees, where I normally store everything. SInce I am new, I dont know how much this really matters. Is this fine, Or should I move to my room...

I just wanted to reaffirm this works. I did some sanitization a few weeks ago with the iodophor stuff, Im not sure how it is spelled. I still have it sitting in a bucket because I was told I can reuse this. Correct? Or is it only a certain type that lasts for quite awhile, like starsan. Thanks

I am flavoring my Baltic Porter right now. Had in Primary for a month (and one day). I plan to flavor for 2 weeks, maybe more I dont know. I was wondering, since this batch has blackstrap, coffee, chocolate, some cardamom, and this all takes time to develop, the beer is about 5.5% alc.; if it...

I have a baltic porter where I just switched to the secondary today, I already flavored with some coffee and cardamom. Its a Brewers Best Kit, at 5.5 percent alc. I put in a quarter of a teaspoon of vanilla extract also. My question, (let me preface I am looking for some well rounded flavors...

okay i am content with the 5.4% content, if i did that right, so theoretically can i rerack and flavor now?, or is there a benefit to let it sit for another week or two? thanks for the thoughts

okay so i took another hydrometer reading, hasn't changed..., im a little disappointed as I was hoping to be a higher gravity beer, this time I did stir up the bottom, forever that is worth. Hypothetically speaking lets say the alcohol content is not going to change, can't I just rerack to a...

it tastes okay, alittle molassy, i was told this will refine over time, probably pitched around 80 degrees, i had some issues, if i went on with what they were, this would be a long post, for about 4 to 5 days it fermented in a room that was 74 to 77f , 3 to 4 days later when it started to...

I took a hydrometer reading after a week because from what I was reading I pitched and kept my carboy too warm for a porter. Being paranoid I checked everything after a week. Everything seems fine, I don't know what the standard process is but OG is 1.062 and after a week is to 1.02. This is...

Still don't know alot about beers but I just did my second batch ever last night. I woke up and the airlock is bubbling (yes I know airlock is not an indicator of fermentation). It is a baltic porter, og is 1.062, I don't know when Krausen happens or if it will, and I know every batch has its...

Im the guy who screwed up a mr beer hopdevil kit, added too much water, so i had to add other things to cancel out, and for the hell of it I added a small square of lemon peel in the boil, and left in all the way through the primary, (4 weeks), Well, it turned out like a harp beer, actually a...

i did not, mr beer basically said, add granulated sugar, add beer, cap bottle, invert several times, wait at least one week, and best to wait 2 to 3 weeks. This was a first batch ever, so I don't plan on doing this again, I guess this will take some time....

im about a week into bottling, and i have the flip tops, so i did want to test one as i knew it would be too early, but i had to!! Yes very cidery, as I have read this will happen, I will give it two more weeks, question is.. For priming I followed the Mr Beer directions and now I have sugar...