Recent content by Sirenus

Thanks for the advice!

Hi, I'm on my third batch of beer, an English style bitter, which I planned to leave in my primary for two or three weeks and then bottle. However, I'm on day 18 in the primary and there are still a few small bubbles regularly coming out of the airlock. Is this normal? My last two beers, a...

Thanks for the advice, too, DocScott. I popped a stout open last night (after about 7 days carbing in the bottle) and found the beer to be ever so slightly carbonated. However, the taste was great, with no off flavors to speak of! This is really exciting because this batch is my first...

Thanks for the input; I appreciate your advice. You're a vegan? Me too!

Hi! I'm a new homebrewer. My second batch of beer (a porter) has been fermenting in my primary in my basement for the past week. The temp down there has been 59 to 61 degrees. I was worried that such a cold temp would inhibit my ale yeast from doing its full job (although over the past...

Thanks so much for the advice, everyone! I really appreciate it. It was all really helpful and will be put to good use when I bottle my second batch; a porter.

Thanks so much to you both for the advice! I went ahead and bottled the stout tonight (the first and last time I'll ever do that on a work night!) and had a bit of a rough time of it. It turns out the tubing connecting the spigot of my bottling bucket to my racking cane was too big to form a...

Hi Everyone, I'm just about to bottle my first (almost) 5 gallon batch of homebrew! It's the "Twelfth Night Stout," an extract and specialty-grain recipe I got from the iBrew app. A little background: On brew day, when I first poured the wort into the primary (I have a 6.5 gallon glass...