Recent content by Silby8919

Thank you!! You are correct, cloudy pee is a bad thing.

How many times do you rack it? Do you rack it within those 10 days?

Hobnob, Apfelwein, & Skeeter Pee. All currently bubbling happily!! Brewing an amber ale tonight. Can't do much in the summer, so winter time is all out brewing!!

Bear Tooth Stout that has been in the bottle for a year. Makes Guinness look pale!! Great chocolate smell. Also an Irish Red that's been in the bottle for a year as well.

I had two different brews in their primaries for 14 months. Pulled them off after tasting to make sure flavor was good & bottled with yeast added to the bottling bucket along with priming sugar. Was not a problem.

I am in the middle of my first batch of SP & had a question about fermentation activity. How aggressive should the fermentation rate be? It is working, but at the same rate as an apfelwein. Too slow? About right? The SG at 1.06 this morning. I have whipped it a couple of times, which seems to...

You guys sound like a buddy of mine. Sittin around his camper (since he got kicked outta the house), eatin' cheetos, drinkin homebrew,watchin' porn..................& wonderin' why his pee pee's turnin' orange. :drunk:

They are no-boil beer kits. That's the only thing they offer. Grapestompers is more of a winery but they have a lot of equipment for brewing beer. It does come with a 6 gallon bottling bucket that is tapped & comes with the spiggot. On the web site they call it a fermenting bucket but I use...

Grapestompers, in Laurel Springs, NC has a really good kit that has some things most other kits don't, like a bottle tree. Just a shade over $200 but it's a great kit. I shopped around for at least a year & looked at A LOT of different kits. The equipment kit also comes with a beer kit of...

I use a test bottle. When you first put the batch into the carboy, save a little out & put it in a bottle. I usually plug the bottle with a paper towel. If it gets infected it doesn't matter. The readings will still be acurate.

5 gallons of American Wheat 5 gallons of Honey Blonde Ale =10 gallons so far

Thanks for the advise guys. I did exactly what ya'll suggested & it fixed them right up. My husband (SMMBO, ;)) flipped when he came home & found the bathtub full of beer bottles. That was fun to watch! Had my first bottling experience yesterday & all went well, as far as I can tell...

Have another beer, dude. That'll fix u right up. :D

1st time bottler here with a quick question. I lucked up several weeks ago & ran across a 12 pack of flip top bottles that an ex-military man was selling at the local flea market. He said he acquired them while in the service in Germany & they are really cool. My question is this. Thes...

Why sure!! I'm having a bottling party right now!