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@cmybeer, nope, it's tonight. Definitely a lack of planning/preparation, but I'm getting some interesting pictures, I think. At this moment, I'm boiling wort, I've added the first round of hops, the second should come shortly. At about 6 liters, the wort was measuring 1.15 specific gravity. I...

Update: Now with pictures and follow-up. :) So, tonight was going to be the night that I started my first all-grain beer. A couple weeks back, I ordered up everything for MysticMeads Raging Red (www.homebrewtalk.com/f65/raging-red-irish-red-ale-239188/). I had to make a hops and a yeast...

Well, I did some reading, and it looks like I've probably got a Brett. Not previously familiar with such a strain, but it doesn't seem to have negatively impacted the taste. I mixed it with about half a cup of brown sugar (as you may have noticed, I'm not being overly exacting in my process for...

Well, it's time for bottling... I drew a cup, and drank it, a bit hesitantly. It tastes substantially better than it did after my first round of tasting. It's actually something I wouldn't mind drinking. :) However, there is a thin (greasy?) film on the top, along with some bits of something...

No votes for poison? Apparently my wife doesn't have an account ;) I was pretty sure nothing significantly bad could happen, but my wife is convinced otherwise, so I thought taking a poll would be a good way to gather some information. Thanks everybody, I'll give it a few more weeks (need to...

About 4 months ago, I poured 23 litres of apple juice into a bucket, added some yeast (it was a wine yeast, I forget which one), and put the lid on. My mother-in-law works at a juice processing plant, so we get free juice, but it's a very mild-flavoured commercial variety. 6 weeks later, I...

Well, it seems like everything worked out just fine. I ended up leaving them open for about 20 minutes at the time of the original posting, which was either enough, or unnecessary, as they all seem to be just about perfect. :) Well, except for the fact that a couple of fruit flies seem to have...

It may be normal, it's just much more carbed than any of my recent ones, so I'm scared. :) I took a gravity reading before priming, and it matched gravity readings over the last 10 days in the primary, so I'm confident it's accurate. If the reading tomorrow matches, that should mean they've...

Ok, I have a plan. I poured some into a hydrometer tube, and I will cap the rest and leave it overnight. In the morning it should be flat, and I should be able to confirm if there's much more sugar to be digested. Holes in my plan?

So, after having less than ideal carbonation on previous batches, I'm now having the opposite problem. I scraped the bottom of the fermenter about a week before bottling, and I also added a couple extra tablespoons of maple syrup. The gravity didn't change at all between scraping and bottling...

Dang, I bottled last night before I read this. I would certainly be willing to add some cloudiness to ensure proper carbonation, so I will remember this for the future. Thanks!

Thanks for the assistance, both in content and terminology. :) I'll not worry, and perhaps look at adding a bit more sugar at bottling (which may be tonight).

I'm wondering what the parameters are around storing bottled beer? So far I've just been keeping them in an enclosed corner of my basement, but the temperature there varies from 14-19 Celsius. I would also like to get into a rhythm where I can keep one or two bottles from each batch around for a...

I've got a brown ale (w/Nottingham yeast) that is approaching 7 weeks fermenting. I had not meant to leave it so long, but I've got a shortage of empty bottles. I've had poor luck with carbonation recently, which I'm currently attributing to using yeasts that required re-hydration (previously...

Well, I'm down to one or two of these bottles left, and the carbonation continues to be inconsistent. The one I opened as of my last post was the best of all of them.

Well, I tried this with a wheat beer, simmering 3 stalks of lemongrass and about 4 tablespoons of chopped ginger (separately at first, as the ginger was much stronger). I ended up with about 1 cup of potion, which was quite strongly flavoured, but didn't really make much impact on 22 liters...

I opened another bottle on the weekend, and it was almost flat and quite sweet. Some carbonation, but not much. I opened a bottle today and it's very carbed and tastes lovely. This inconsistency is bumming me out. Anyone got any tips for determining which bottles are carbed without opening...

Had a larger bottle last night, and it's coming along great. :) Still a bit under-carbed, and a little too sweet, but a dramatic change from two weeks ago. Another week, and this will be a beer I will be proud to share with my friends.

Thanks for the encouragement. I'll leave it alone. :) (I may have to find some more bottles for my next batch though)

I bottled my latest batch on Thursday, and I was interested to see how it was developing, so I just opened a bottle. It had a very tiny amount of carbonation, and by the taste, seems to have most of it's bottling sugar. I know it will usually take two or more weeks to get to the proper level of...