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well i dont remember reading about attenuation in charlies book but i only read the beginning half (figured that applied to me most). yesterday i shook up the cream ale and really got it swirling. alot of CO2 escaped while i was agitating. the bubbles continued for the 15 minutes or so i was...

i figure i would bring up a fermentation/gravity question i have been trying to figure out. (thats how i came to read this thread). i brewed two kits on sept6: true brew american wheat and brewers best american cream ale. big blowoff for three or four days and then stopped (very slow...

6067 + 5 = 6072 umm . . . anyone think we should subtract 1gal. for the bottle that exploded? technically it was made, just not enjoyed.

just another followup: last night i made two 5gal batches in 5gal carboys. a canadian ale and a nut brown ale. by this morning they had blown off like crazy. this time my carboys have markings on them and ive lost almost a whole gallon in each. i figure at the rate its going it will be a gallon...

5831 + 10 = 5841 and while making my 2nd 5gal batch a buddy of mine did his own. so +5 for him. 5841 + 5 = 5846

i had a similar issue with my first batch of red ale. only bottled out to 1.5 cases. i use 5 gal carboys. i made an ipa on sunday and threw a pound of honey in for the hell of it. blow off was crazy! twice as much krausen twice as long as the red ale. its airlocked now that the foaming has...

trojanman your assumption is correct, i dont like the bitterness. i went with your second suggestion and used all the hops and approx pound of honey. brewed it up yesterday. the gravity measured in at 1.040, starting gravity was listed as 1.050-1.052 on the instructions. the honey taste was...

hp lovecraft: thanks for the suggestion. i looked into inverting cane sugar and found that honey is mostly inverted sugar so i will just use that. lyle's syrup interestingly enough is less than 60% inverted, so it seems the honey will be the better ingredient. i also read that inverted sugar is...

excellent! i have fresh honey from the comb. know a guy who raises bees for farms and an obvious by product is honey. pure honey. i was planning to eventually work up to a honey wheat and use the pure honey for that. but maybe ill try throwing it in this batch just for the hell of it...

thanks guys. yeh i was wondering about the preservatives mostly. wasnt sure if they would boil out or something else completely. i was kind of banking that the taste would be sweeter and i prefer sweet beers (mmm ciders) over anything else. thats what got me thinking about the corn syrup. i...

fairly green to the world of brewing and here as well. my first batch (red ale) is bottle conditioning and will be tried sometime this weekend -but not until i brew up another batch! i picked up and IPA true brew extract kit (it was either that or brown ale). im not really a fan of IPA but...