Recent content by bahnzaijr

Good news everyone. I took everyone's suggestion to let it settle for a little over a week and now the beer came out great. It's beautiful in color and taste like a million dollars. It's somewhat sweet with a hickory/smokey after taste. Here's a picture.

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At least a couple quarts and its still pretty murky. Im not sure if its relevant, but it went straight into a refrigerator at 40 degrees F with the keg and co2 after the secondary.

Primary was for about 3 weeks and secondary was for about 1 week. The beer had a nice, rich red color after secondary. To prep the keg, i let warm soapy water soak for a while, and then replaced the water with more warm soapy water where i scrubbed it out. I discharged the water through the...

Hey guys, I'm pretty upset. I've spent the last few weeks really taking care of my Irish Red Ale during fermentation making sure to not miss any steps and sanitize everything thoroughly. As the initial fermentation and secondary fermentation went great, it turned milky after a few days in the...

I ended up going to morebeer and got 3 additional packs of yeasts. Its been a couple of weeks since adding them and the beer is fermenting great now!

So i'm hearing a general consensus that i severely underpitched the yeast, but it'll still work in the end even if it takes a little longer?

I used the Wyeast Activator Liquid Yeast that came with the kit. I let the yeast incubate for a good two hours in 70 degree weather. It was showing initial signs of fermentation within 24 hours where was visible by the airlock bubbling slowly.

Hey guys, This is my first post on here but have been a long time viewer so please bear with me. I bought the pennsylvania lager kit from Annapolis home brew, the Yuengling clone, and brewed it monday night. It's now mid-thursday, so it's been about 84 hours or so. I'm afraid that i put the...