Recent content by Aggie_JD

Sorry should have clarified, they are past carbing stage, probably about 6 weeks at this point. GOod point about the hops, it's an APA in bottles so that might help preserve it a bit longer.

I got a whiskey barrel porter kit from AHBS and I'd like to bump up the OG from 1.063 to around 1.075. Any easy way to do this, like add another pound or two of LME or DME without changing the recipe too dramatically?

I have a chest freezer with temperature controller, great for cold crashing beer to help clear it and compact the trub. I want to do it with a blond ale that finished fermenting, but my freezer also acts as storage for other beer that it still maturing in bottles. I wonder what effect the...

I'm contemplating using a fresh yeast cake for my next batch. I have a blond beer using Wyeast london ale, and I've read this is also a good strain for higher gravity stouts and porters and I want to do a bourbon barrel stout or porter. I've read what I can on this practice but I still have...

I've read that after bottling it's ideal to store your beer at around 70 or so for carbonating and then conditioning. It's summer here in Texas I don't cool my house while I'm at work, and inside it gets to be around 80 degrees. Will storage at those temps negatively affect the tast and/or...

So, not to drag out an old thread, but I only had one bottle explode from this batch. That is until yesterday. After over a month with no issues, I had a bottle from the same batch explode again. I'm wondering if the heat inside the house may have been an issue, it got pretty warm yesterday. I...

So, are other Belgian ale yeasts and their accompanying beer styles likely to do well at higher temperatures? I need to figure out some styles that won't mind 70's and 80's if I'm going to keep brewing here through summer. I will definitely be brewing a Saison soon. May is basically the start of...

I checked the website and it is 4.5 oz. of corn sugar that is their standard amount for the 5 gallon batch. I don't think i stated but it was a 5 gallon kit. I will watch and see if any more let go.

It was an Irish Summer Ale kit that was my first partial mash. I got it from Austin homebrew. OG was 1.055. It stayed in the primary for 3 weeks. I measured 1.020 which was a bit high, but it held for three days and this style wasn't supposed to be that high ABV so I thought it should be ok...

Well, I guess it happens to the beat of us sometimes. It blew the bottom section right off the bottle and the cap is still intact! I thought my fermentation had stalled but it apparently had a mind of its own. Fortunately most of the carnage was contained by the towel underneath the box. I...

Going to be in the 80's here today. :( I have a swamp cooler but even with a 1 gallon frozen water bottle My temps were in the 70's by the time I got home.

The interesting thing to me is I think different people taste it differently. My first bath had it so strongly that to me it's basically undrinkable. I mean it's horrible. However my dad said he thought the beer was pretty good. I took a sample in to my LHBS and they said there was nothing...

I know from reading this great forum that the best way to ensure fermentation is complete is to take gravity reading several days in a row. I also know that exposing beer to oxygen (especially past initial fermentation is not a great thing. I am doing a single stage fermentation in my...

The target is 1.012, so it's not too much off. It was just a surprise to me that it happened in 5 days.

Making a Scottish 80 ale and it's my first time using steeping grains. Today I racked to the secondary and everything looks and smells good. I took a gravity reading but it looks like it's already down to about 1.009 which is lower than it's supposed to be after secondary. Is this normal? Does...