Recent content by weavka32

Yeah that is what I though. I stayed with the Fuggles. Will see how it turns out.

I was worried about it being to sweet. I like Sammy Smith OS don't want a sweet mouth taste.. I don't want the citrisy taste in it either. I was just looking my in stock hops that had a slightly higher aa %.

I am making a Oatmeal Stout kit today from Midwest Supplies. I am a little worried about the low bitterness from the fuggles and am thinking about changing to cascade to up it a bit. Thoughts? Oatmeal Stout Recipe specifics: Style: Oatmeal Stout Batch size: 5.0 gal OG: 1.048 FG: 1.012...

Take a gravity reading. If it stays the same for a few days its done. But give it time. Patience only makes your beer better. I let mine sit almost 2 weeks before I check on it.

Get some tubing and fit it to the air lock and the other end and drop it in sanitizer or vodka. You to set up a blow off tube. Congrats on the active fermentation!

I use dishsoap right after drinking then I run my bottles through the dishwasher on a sanitize cycle with no soap and have not had that issue, yet at least. It does sound like soap, but post your temps.

I never do. They are fabric so they could hold particles in fibers. I do reuse paint bags though.

That is good. Sign of a vigorous fermentation. That burn at the bottle is not a huge deal, you might get a little off flavor but you probably wont notice it. Probably from adding the extract all in the beginning. Did you taste it? I like to taste at each phase of the beer. Welcome to the cult!

Brew all your ingredients in one pot 2 to 3 gallons then mix it with cool water in the fermentation bucket. The tube of ice water would create a home made swamp cooler, as long as it kept the temps consistant it should work fine.

Just took a gravity reading of my Helles. 1.02 at 68° which would mean almost 5% abv which is exactly what was expected even though I screwed up the mash. :mug: But the beer is so thick with sediment I am not even sure what the color really is. Going to rack this one into the secondary in a...

I made a helles with W1007 last Wednesday, the airlock didn't bubble much at all. But when I popped the lid to take a gravity reading I got a nice wiff of fermented wort and a nice krausen. I used a started so I was a little worried that I saw no bubbles. But the yeasties did their work...

Pinging as well. I just popped my first bottle of my first original recipe IPA. It too was a bit darker then I expected. But I dry hopped on 2 oz of simcoe and got a nice pinny flavor in the beer. Tastes great!

Messed up my temps and had a poor conversion. A sweet wort went into the primary so beer will come out but....

Just popped the first bottle. Has a huge piney flavor but tastes awesome! I am very happy with this brew. It is dark and malty but still an IPA. Would attach but the app keeps crashing when I try.

I am basically still doing the same thing I do when I steep the specialty grains, just for a little longer and a few degrees cooler.