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So how do you carbonate then and store safely?

5 days since bottling and I'm disappointed with my carbing results. Maybe not enough sugar added?

Victory Golden Monkey and it's no secret, lol. A friend gave me a bottle for Christmas years ago and I almost gagged.

Started a 2 gallon batch of cider from regular store brand apple juice 6 weeks ago. The yeast was cider house select. I did add quite a bit of sugar and the starting og was 1.085. I racked to bottling bucket yesterday with 1 can of AJ concentrate and a couple tablespoons of honey. The FG was...

I don't think wal mart chips will work well. You should have large chunks. The chips will burn up too fast. 2 or 3 chunks are good at a time and I start using them right from the beginning. I add 2 or 3 more chunks an hour later and that's probably enough. If you like more smoke repeat a...

I've only made 2 batches of beer, but I used my spent grain on dog biscuits and pizza dough. My dogs went nuts over the treats.

Maybe a bit over carbed but not much. Recipe called for 3 tbsp of honey and I used 2.5 tbsp. although I only got 3 quarts of beer instead of 4. Also it didn't clear up much.

Cracked open my first bottle Saturday and I think it came out ok. It was Brooklyn Brew Shops American Blond Ale. It spent 3 weeks fermenting and 2 carbing up. I'm not sure the flavor was spot on to what it should have been. My wife and I both felt it had a Blue Moon quality to it. I bottled...

When my dad died I bought my parents house, added a ground floor bedroom so my mom wouldn't have to deal with steps and thought everything would continue to be rosey....fast forward 5 years later. They don't build a fermenter big enough for me to get enough self medication and I often wish I...

Brewed my first BBS 2 weeks ago and now have a couple of questions. 1) I can still see a a little bit of action in the fermenter. Am I hurting anything waiting an extra week to bottle? 2) do most people bottle straight from the fermenter as shown on BBS website? 3) if so then how do you...

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Do you need to do a secondary? Can the pectic enzyme go into secondary?

So it's pretty active now. It's fermenting in a 1 gallon glass jug. The liquid goes to just under the neck of the bottle. I do have a blowoff hose in the cap which runs to a small container of sanitizer. My plan was to put an airlock in once I see less action in the jug, I wasn't going to...

Just the berries. They actually kind of explode when boiled, lol. I'll probably leave this batch alone to see what I get and modify on the next brewing.

I'm curious about the addition of fruit. I liked the idea of the cranberry winter wheat recipe, but had a hefeweizen kit. So I made the hefeweizen but added cranberry to the last 10 minutes of the boil, 1 cup. The Winter Wheat recipe had the cranberry added at flame out. Any thoughts on what...