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Opened a bottle to check the SG. There was carbonation! At least in that one. Just stuck 4 more into the fridge! Hot Dog!!! When I poured the bottle into the container I couldn't read the hydrometer for the bubbles! The SG was 1.018. Right on target. Now, about the recipe. It's no DIPA...

Couldn't hurt, right? Everyone there has always been so helpful and patient. I really like the fact that they're super knowledgeable and they don't mind sharing what they know. Do you think taking a bottle to them would be bad form? Do you know what I mean? I don't want to be "that person".

That's brilliant! Thanks, Mozart, chickypad, Demus, dgr, and kh54s10 for so much the solid advice. Seriously, I was moments away from dumping this onto my compost.

I'm going to follow dgr's advice. If I open a beer that I know to be carbonated, say one of the Sierra Nevada's I have in the fridge, could I recap it and wait a day or two to see if it's carbonated? Would that be a way to test my bottle capping device? Any advice on how to test the capper...

This sounds like a great solution, too! I was so bummed. I really didn't want to pour another batch out.

We put the glass carboy on the counter a few hours before transferring. Then dissolved the sugar in the water and poured it into the primary. Then we transferred the beer in and stirred it around. Then we filled our clean bottles with the filler until the beer was to the top of the opening...

Oh, brother, is it darker. It's the color a Porter at least.

I can't find where we wrote the OG. The FG was 1.014. Recipe said it should be 1.018. Does that seem unusual to you? The only DME was the 1 LB of Amber. We had a lot of fermentation action in the primary. We even had some slow fermentation action after we transferred to the secondary...

I've been thinking about this....would there be any benefit to opening these and re-priming and bottling again?

The recipe doesn't say, they only gave me the one bag when they put together the kit. I melted the sugar and then cooled it and put it into my primary, then I added the beer to the melted cooled sugar and bottled. The batch was for 5 1/4 gallons. It was supposed to be a clone of Ninkasi...

I frequent a store that sells a lot of singles and doesn't mind breaking six packs up. Then I can try one without committing to six. If it's an IPA or a IIPA, I always check the dates. I also usually pick up a six of something I've had before, too.

Hello, We haven't brewed in a while and finally decided to start back. We have been bottled now for July 15 and have no carbonation. We were attempting our first double IPA. I think it may be a bad recipe. (?) It called for 11 pounds of extract. And we used two White Labs yeast. There...

A new brewery in Bee Cave! aaaaahhhhhh. I don't know when you're going to be up and running, but I can guarantee you'll get some of my beer $'s. :mug:

It smelled foul maybe a little sulphurous. Almost as bad as a school bus on a hot day. There was no way I was willing to taste it, and that's saying a lot, because the smell was so bad. The slightest flexing of the bottle cap, and a wisp of air camp out, after just being bottle since Monday...

Sad news....opened one tonight. It didn't gush, but it did smell really bad. I'm afraid it's a goner....what a bummer. Sigh. Oh well, no use cryin' over spilt beer.... :( The question now is; what do you think about reusing the bottles? Do they need to be recycled and start over? What kind...