Recent content by Scribbles

nah, aside from one broken hydrometer she's down right awesome. I'd rather try to get her to throw done on a refractometer instead. I might leave a 1/3 where they sit, fridge 1/3 for weeks, and frig the other for 24 hours and recap. Palmer's book suggested recapping things that were...

I think I'm going to split the advice and put some of the batch in the fridge and leave some where they are.

Not sure. My girlfriend dropped my hydrometer later that evening. Which contributed to my decison to bottle soon after. Again, im just full of poor decisions on this one. I ran home for lunch and checked my dry erase board. Its been bottled 10 days. I then proceeded to open one. The ambient...

The G at bottling time seemed a bit high, around 1.020 but I went ahead anyways, deciding to follow the kit instructions since I had let it sit in the fermenter the instructed amound of time. Bone head move, I figured that then, but I wanted to take a gamble and see what happens, after all, I...

After that, should I consider transfering them back into a fermenter?

So they are ticking and its only been a week since bottling and I'm certain they're going to blow because when I open them regardless of temperature, the fizz comes rushing up as if a drunk friend had hammered an open beer. Regardless, after I've dealt with the fizzing via dumping it into a...

thanks guys, My little coopers kit guide says to bottle as soon as gravity stabilizes unless I've missed something. Makes it sound like I should be taking readings more often than not. And I must admit, this 2nd batch isn't a cooper's ingredients product.

So I'm on my 2nd batch of beer making and making an amber ale. My f2nd day in the fermenter was really active, so much so that it foamed through my airlock. I quickly replaced with a sanitized hose that fed into a pitcher of water. I guess that's called a blow over hose or some such. Anyway...