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Thanks Shane, Gravity readings were suggesting the next step be taken, but after seeing some bubbles I was like "aww hell naw" and just wanted to play it safe. Thanks.

Hey guys and girls, I guess I have a pretty simple question, am sure I am thinking more about it than I should .... buuuuuuut my Airlock has started showing signs of life in the Primary Fermenter again. It's been about 2 weeks and activity had ceased, we've been taking the gravity readings...

Well it wasn't my beer, have got a couple batches that are bottled but I haven't gotten to the point of tasting em yet. This was someone elses brew, can't really comment on how much priming sugar they used but I figured it was the amount "called" for. One was an ale that had a fruit extract in...

Should have been more specific, sorry. Like, just really bubbly beer - to the point where it seems to just mask whatever flavor the brew might even have. Not so much when you pour it, I've seen beers that just foam out like crazy without a rough poor or anything. But mainly when drinking...

What is the main culprit of this? Possibly bottling too early?

Yeah, that's what I'm hearing. I'm gonna check the "satellite fermenter" or whatever tomorrow and see where it stands. Maybe even Saturday. I'm assuming everything is on course to be aaaaaaalll goooooood. :mug:

Well, that's the thing... It's funny cause I just got done reading the thread where dude stresses how much of an idiot he is, I was thinking "I probably take the cake" with that one. It was about a week after I brewed and got everything going in the primary fermenter. I was going to take a...

Aight, so, uh...where to begin. I was advised by some to give my brew some extra time in the primary fermenter and so I did - tonight I went ahead and took a gravity reading and am sitting at 1.010 (I think I'm reading this right - does that sound off to anyone? - like high or low?) but the...

Ok guys, thanks a lot for the input! I have heard the unfortunate mentioning of the bottle bombs when going in early. Something I definitely don't want happening. Am checking out that bottling thread and thanks for the input everyone - and yeah, I don't want to rush it and I'm a pretty...

Cool, thanks for the thread link. And yeah, we got all our bottles and what not, would have to start soaking them if I'd be doing this sooner than later. Obviously not today, but, yeah. hah, it's early! So with this beer in question, a Nut Brown Ale, it says that after 5-7 days after...

Am curious if many of you out there in beer land go this route, am asking because a glass carboy we have broke - not sure exactly how it got knocked over but it was perched up on a shelf in a box and it fell off, probably the damn cats...so this leads me to my current question; I am about to...

hah classy thread. nice pic.

hah yeah I just tried calling, need to give it an hour before people will be taking calls evidently. honestly the people I've been brewing with for the last few times, I don't recall them reusing the Muslin Bags. That's the only reason I asked. =p I know the majority of their 'equipment'...

Well they're regular hops, not the pellets which I'm familiar with and have seen just being dumped right in. Since these aren't pellets I'm evidently having to use an additional Muslin Bag. Now, would it be too crazy to take the one Muslin Bag that held the specialty grains and reuse it when...

Ugh, where to start. Sorry to just jump right in but this is concerning a Brown Ale recipe and whether or not this "kit" seems to be short a pack of hops. Now, with this kit comes a list of things to make sure you received, I did this before and put the hops into the freezer and the yeast in...

Ah, thank you thank you. Would make sense, keep em fresh right? Obviously not the freezer tho, right?

I noticed the owner of a local Wine Makers store pulling the hops and yeast out of a fridge in the store, my first expedition into the world of beer making will be with a kit - after looking through all the supplies I was reminded of dude pulling these two things out of his fridge for a buddy I...

Ah ok. I mean, I figure the sanitizing is taken seriously...yes. I would be very serious about that. But gloves? I mean, I always wash my hands...after smokes, everything...hell, I'll wash my hands just to wash em sometimes - it's not a condition, yet =/, but yeah...hah, I mean, I would take...

Ok, and dayum...so the wort as it is called is the beer before yeast is added? Not the device holding the beer? Wow, I'm totally making an a** of myself...that's good to know tho, so yeah...I meant in the stage of moving the wort to the initial fermenter - when you add the yeast...so air is...

Wow...everyone, thank you so much! First off, the gloves...I figured that yes, would be a bit of an overkill as if you were being clean enough and what not it wouldn't be that big of an issue. I wouldn't say I'm a germaphobe or whatever, but I'm always thinking about things touching things and...