Recent content by seamus18

I purchased a 3 keg setup from kegconnection and I am thrilled! Was bottling exclusively, but now I am in love with the simplicity of kegging. Kegged two 5 gallon brews this morning, and I am actually drinking (and really enjoying) the porter tonight. Turned out excellent. Couldn't be happier. I...

Love Fullers Porter!

I too started brewing because of Craig's videos. I have also moved on to AG, but that doesn't stop me from watching his videos. They are always enjoyable, and as mentioned, he really is a nice guy. I even hang out on his Friday cast when I can and drink beer. He is 46, by the way. Keep it...

I still did the hops at the scheduled times. 60', 10' & 1'.

It certainly seems quite active, it's just not exploding the kraeusen.

Thanks for the replies, guys. The OG was 1.060. It is an English Bitter.

Ok, did my first all grain on Saturday. An English Bitter. I hit all of my temps and everything seemed to go great. I did a batch sparge by the way. When I finished the sparge and had 6.5 gallons of wort, my pre-boil gravity seemed a bit low. Beersmith said it should be about 1.054, but I got...

I have brewed a few of extract kits before, mostly Coopers. I did my first all grain an Saturday. Everything went great. It's fermenting along nicely. My question is, when I did the extract kits, it seems that the kraeusen would get huge, usually 4"-5". On this batch of all grain, the kraeusen...

I have reused my Blue Moon bottles for home brew with no problems. I think that if they don't leak after capping, they should be fine. Just my .02

I also feel your pain. My latest Wheat beer came out horrid?! Not sure where I screwed up, but not good enough to take up bottle space. I raise a glass and hang my head:)

Ok, Thanks. I will wait. Just didn't want to pour $50.00 down the drain if there was a chance the finished product would taste this way. But I guess I'll listen to a guy with almost 19K posts. :) I appreciate the help. Still learning.

Thanks for the reply! I was actually going to ask if I made maybe a 1/2 batch of the same unhopped and combined in bottling bucket after fermentation, could that possibly help. Thought it might be a stupid question though:) I did put all of the recipe into Brewer's Friend calculator and it...

Yes, I used Wayne1's Blue Moon clone but had it converted to a partial by my homebrew supply store. I did a 3 gallon boil, steeped my grains and oats for 30', then did 60' boil with LME adding hops at the beginning. I didn't know at the time that Halletau had different %'s, and I was following...

Thanks. Just didn't want to bottle till the taste eased up.

Hi, I'm kind of new to this. Done a few batches, extract to start. I did my first partial about 10 days ago. It was a Blue Moon clone that I learned from this sight. Anyway, it's been in primary for about 10 days and fermentation has been done for a number of days but I am going to leave for...