Recent content by alexp

Just finished up my Holiday Hot Sauce. Lots of winter flavours, and a few Ghost peppers. Gets cooked down, and am in the process of Oak aging it. It tends to disappear really fast. alexP

Heres a quick update.... The apple vibe is gone. I tried the beer again last night and its mellowed to the point that theirs very faint traces of it but thats it. The beer has built in body as well. I dare say I think time actually sorted this one out! Whewwwww! Thanks tons for all the...

Hey! Yeah so the beer was my first one... It was a Brewers Spring Draught kit, so it was basically add the wort, water, pitch yeast, and begin. I am using Dextrose as my priming sugar, but I havent even gotten around to bottling the beer yet, as I wanted to see if I could get this beer to...

Sorry guys! Its an Extract out of a kit. Its an off Odour. My temps were right where they should be! The summer has been pretty hot, but I know it didnt get any warmer than 70 degrees in my pantry (where I brew). My OG started around 1.048 and its sitting at 1.000 So obviously something has gone...

Hey everyone! I started a new brew back in June, and I still have it sitting in secondary fermentation for 1 reason. I could bottle it as is as a cider. The green apple smell, and taste is still completely crazy in it. I have heard that goes away with time, but its been nearly 2 months now, and...

Wait so you threw the hops in for a 2 week fermentation? That could be the problem for sure!

Thank you kind sir! I am going to cold crash and see what goes down! :D (hopefully all those chunks!) alexP

Random question! (see I told you there would be more questions!) Can I filter out some of the bigger bits of spent hops, and yeast going into bottles? I was just going to use a fine kitchen strainer. Or will this remove to much yeast to carbonate my dextrose? I just dont want to pour a bottle...

Thanks everyone! I am finally bottling this week! I am super excited! I am bottling in glass and letting it sit for 2 weeks, and then throwing it in the fridge! I am getting a bottling wand this week, as they seem really handy! I sanitized the bottles with bleach,and ran them through the...

This is what I do as well. My secondary fermentation gets the tight lid and airlock! alexP

Hi again! So I'm going to head down to my hb place today and grab a spring loaded bottle filler. Anything to make bottling easier!! In regards to adding the dextrose to a pint of water... So I will pour the pint of water and dextrose into my bottling bucket ( I'm just going to clean and...

Thank you so much guys!! Really really appreciate it!! In regards to me asking about filtering, I am a chef, and as such I am highly neurotic in regards to things like clarity, colour etc. Seems to go with the territory!! :) I use gelatin, ice filtering, and protein rafting to clarify...

Hi everyone! Finally bit the bullet yesterday and grabbed my first beginner kit. Its the Brewers Spring Draught. This is something I have been meaning to do for a couple of years now, so I am glad I finally have something going!! I used tapwater, but let it sit overnight to leach out as much...