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I am bottling a Irish Red Ale today. When I transfered to the secondary I ended up with about 4-4.5 gals. I have been trying to do the math to figure out my sugar ratio, but need a little help. I dont have a scale to weigh the sugar out so how many tablespoons to water should I use. Thanks for...

I am bottling a Irish Red Ale today. When I transfered to the secondary I ended up with about 4-4.5 gals. I have been trying to do the math to figure out my sugar ratio, but need a little help. I dont have a scale to weigh the sugar out so how many tablespoons to water should I use. Thanks for...

Thanks for the help guys. It is definitely very carbonated. Should I go ahead and stick it all in the fridge and see if that helps.

little under 5oz of priming sugar. It was a extract kit from nothern brewer. It sat in the primary for 10 days then bottled. I had 5 gals 12 22oz and 48 12oz. it so strange last week it tasted great. it has great carb and is good and clear.

So I bottled a bavarian hefeweizen on 6\16 it carbed within a couple days of that and tasted pretty good. I drank a few and left the others to finish. Cracked one open last night and it mad a popping sound when I opened it and tasted very bitter, not good at all. It didn't taste hoppy bitter...

Well unfortunately I have about 20 more years to go..... and then if I do 30 yrs I will only be 49. But the way our state government keeps messing with our retirement system I will probably have to be 65 before I can retire.

Looks like a great breakfast

So I didn't think that I was going to get such a response from this post. Just shows you the power of beer. I'm a cop and rotate every 28 days form days to night. So the way I see it I'm doing the same thing you would do if you were working days just at a different time. I have a sergeant who...

Their are all kinds of negatives to working night shift (6 pm to 6 am here). Missing out on family time, all the best tv shows are on in the evening. Thank god for dvr. But one plus is coming home and being able to have a wonderful home brew at 7 in the morning. I came home this morning and...

Well I brewed Saturday afternoon. I rigged up a half ass swamp cooler and the temp seems to holding around 65 to 67. Today is the first time seeing any action in the airlock a little bubbling, but not much.

Irish red ale on deck for today. Just smacked my yeast pack about an hour to go. Now off to the store to buy water....... ahhhhh the joys of having florida well water

I'm headed to fort peirce for federal jury duty............ yay. Anyone know of any home brew stores near by thanks.

I am headed to fort peirce florida for federal jury duty yay......... figured why not try to make the best of it. Anyone know of any home brew stores near by.

I will be brewing this kit this weekend. Any advice, this is only my second brew. I ordered the wyeast any recommendation on fermenting temps.