Recent content by BeTreyed

I'm in Fremont, very new to homebrewing but loving every minute of it.

I've used an ice bath in my sink for my first two batches and it cooled my wort down in about 20-25 minutes which is not bad at all. Out of convenience I bought a chiller, mostly because hauling 2-3 bags of ice up 3 flights of stairs to my apartment is a PITA, but I used my chiller now on my...

Thank you very much for that link comer, flipping through the photos, it looks like it's most likely CO2, my last batch didn't do that at all so it seemed very strange to me. Thank you very much for the help. I didn't think that bacteria would take ahold that fast. :mug:

Awesome! Congratulations, I've been waiting on my first batch which has been bottled for about a week and a half now. Like the others have said, waiting is SO HARD, I plan to taste a least one this weekend but I'll probably wait until it's been bottled for 3 weeks before I really crack into them.

So I have an Irish Red Ale Extract kit that didn't come with yeast, however I have a dry Munton's Wheat yeast that I have available to use. Has anyone ever tried using a wheat beer yeast in a traditional ale beer recipe? Just curious, I don't want to waste the yeast if this is going to turn...

Hello all, I just started brewing about a month ago, my first batch (Irish Red Ale) is in bottles and should be ready for tasting this weekend. I just moved my second batch a Hefeweizen to my secondary today. I took a look at my secondary and what looks like round white patches of bacteria...