Recent content by Black Dog

i think the biggest thing with a bottling bucket is convenience. You get your beer off the yeast cake. When stirrig in the priming sugar it would be difficult not to stir that up. as long as everything is sanitized properly you wont have any problems.

you didnt just pour the corn sugar in did you? you need to mix the corn sugar with a small quantity of water and boil it. That kills any nasties that would infect your beer.

For anyone going to start all-grain brewing i would reccomend a batch sparge instead of the fly sparge The Professor detailed. Since i started batch sparging 6 months ago i cant tell you enough how much better it is. it is so much easier and much faster. the efficiency of the mash drops about...

i agree let it age for a couple months and see. if that doesnt do it then you could always brew another batch that is lightly hopped and then combine the two. Less full boil hops is the answer. Here is a link to a good article about hops utilization: https://hoptech.com/uhops.html Black Dog

i started out in 1995 with a Mr. Beer. Now that was homebrew. yuk! yeasty cardboard pasty. bad memories. My old college room mate came to visit me and after he was pretty smashed i fed it to him. he didnt even notice. that was the last time i used it. i went out and bought a couple glass...