Recent content by Alambic_Talon

Alright it's gravity has not changed so I bottled it up last night, no surprise still tasted great. The improvised recipe kinda tastes like a bitter ale. Most of it got bottled in brown 1 liter PETE bottles purchased for this purpose, I really like the idea; with a glass bottle you have no...

Hi! Yeah It is also my opinion that i'll be able to pass that for beer when it's all said and done. :D Of course those bubbles are CO2 escaping, but where is it coming from after so long and with such a low gravity? It can't be stuff escaping from the yeast cake because it was all broken...

I started as a teenager with cheap kits and dry yeast packets, did a few batches in the early 90's with friends. Then stopped, and we started again for a few batches a few years ago, I'd say we haven't brewed anything in 4-5 years and I wasn't alone at it back then either. I ran the recipe...

Thanks, it's at 1.008 right now. Not knowledgeable enough to know exactly what that means, but it looks like that's about as low as it can go, right? Edit; make that 1.006, I misread, the scale is 0.002 per bar not 0.001

Hi guys, I I used to brew with a roommate years ago and stopped when we moved our separate ways, I allowed him to keep my half of the equipment in hopes that we would brew some more when the occasion came up. Unfortunately, he got cancer and passed away. Two years later, his girlfriend asked...