Recent content by teganlt

Thanks everyone! I'm gonna go with infection as the likely culprit, as that explains the off-flavor as well. I'll do a better job sanitizing in the future. I think it was the bottles, because when I tasted the uncarbonated stuff it was good. I sanitized the bottles by running them through the...

Finished my second homebrew. It's supposed to be a a brown ale, but tastes kind of funny (not bad though), and the really weird thing is that as soon as I open the bottle it starts fizzing over. What could be causing the heavy carbonation? I know I didn't use too much priming sugar -- I brewed...

Thanks everyone for the feedback!

I added the priming solution while I siphoned the fermenter into the bottling bucket, and I did stir. Perhaps not enough stirring? Should I have added the priming solution after the siphoning was done?

Hey all, just finished bottling my second batch (first turned out great!) and a little while after I started the beer started coming out through the tube a bit slower. I put a little aside and drank it — it was pretty syrupy. Its a brown ale (northern brewer carribou slobber — I’m still on the...

Waiting for bottles to arrive; can I just leave my beer in the fermenter for three extra days? It's supposed to sit there for 2 weeks, so this means that it'll have been in there for 15 days. It's an amber ale.

Thanks everyone! Much appreciated

Hi, I'm about 26 hours into fermenting my first batch of homebrew. The fluid in the airlock was bubbling nicely this morning, but when I checked in this afternoon I noticed that much of it had overflowed. Is this a problem and should I replenish it? Is there something I need to do to keep this...