Recent content by billyburg

Hi Folks, I've given homebrewing two tries now with no success. After my two seperate attempts i've been discouraged but i do want to give it another go this fall when the weather cools down. For some reason my OG is always in range but then after fermentation my final is always above range and...

Thanks everyone for their advice! Its been fermenting for a total of three weeks now and I just took another hydrometer reading and it came to 1.019, a whopping 0.001 improvement in one additional week. To bottle or not to bottle?

Hi Folks, i just recently brewed my first batch, an irish red ale. Its been 2 weeks that its been fermenting and i took a reading and my FG read 1.02. The FG for the recipe stated that it should be 1.01-1.014. Should I just give it a few more days to keep fermenting or would it be ok for me to...