Recent content by SMTX

So I popped a few of these open at a week in the bottle with an extra 24 hour fridge time. Nice champagne cork pop from the 16oz flip top. Decent carbonation, not all the way there but close! Tasted pretty good too, I'm trying to resist drinking them all now! After bottling this batch we brewed...

I think this will work better than a standard 20' chiller. I built I 10' CFC for my first brew, it dropped boiling wort to 78 degrees with 70 degree tap water. I think length is overrated, once the input water is warmed up it no longer does anything. I suspect the effective heat transfer zone is...

8 days in its clearing up and still barely bubbling. Gravity is at 1.011. Tasted like beer!

Thanks for the comments! I know I had them written down on my list of supplies and still forgot to order fermometers! Oh well, I'm going by AHS this weekend for some other stuff anyway.

Hello folks, My girl and I recently decided to give brewing a try, so we bought all the stuff and did our research to hit the ground running. We're using a Patersbier extract kit from northernbrewer, and doing a half batch in a 3 gallon carboy. I basically cut all the ingredients in half to...