Recent content by acaaron816

FYI didn't end up racking to secondary and bottled yesterday after about 9 days of fermentation, though most of the fermentation seemed to have happened in the first 2 days. Had a little taste of the beer, tasted just fine, dare I say good. All it needs is some carbonation and it will be a...

Thanks for all the replies, I think I'm going to let it sit until this weekend then rack it to secondary, and in that process see if it tastes like bandaid or armpit or whatever. Hopefully no monks will have to be fired.

Ok, so my friends and I just brewed our first batch of a Pale ale...brewing went generally ok. Our biggest problem was cooling the wort. I'd read many conflicting reports, and due to limiting circumstances and space, decided to throw a bag of store-bought ice into the bucket and then dumped...

Hi, Just starting into homebrewing....very excited. Ordered some equipment from morebeer.com thanks to free shipping, but unfortunately their bottles don't qualify for free shipping...for 36 22oz'ers it comes out to over $30. Does anyone know a place in NYC (that's reachable by subway or...