Recent content by brewdog69

Dry hopped and now upon drinking notice a lot of 'floaties'..it tastes pretty good and is well carbonated and no weird taste/color/smell...but for some reason im worried about potential infection or something based on floaties in the beer. This is also my first time reusing bottles from...

A recipe calls for California Select but I am not sure if my brew store has this. If they dont, is there a substitute or alternate name that I should look for? also p.s. If I am halving a recipe, should I use the same amount of hops and yeast as called for in full? 5gal cutting down to...

Hi all, As noted on my other: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/need-some-expertise-is-my-beer-alcoholic.661280/ I had a bit of trouble getting through the brewing process but ultimately yadda yadda yadda we fermented and bottled. Now its been 1 week and i wanted to do a tester to...

so everyone, update and ill probably go to a new thread. its been one week since i bottled, and so i wanted to do a carb test more than anything so i popped one open. carb: very good, probably fully carbonated, great pop off sound and bubbles. smell: very good, hops coming through big...

man yall hoity for some brewers! let me try to not confuse you once again. Big 5 gallon pot is all i have. it is metal. i placed this on the stove top in the apartment. there may be lead in our water for all u suburban daddies in their garages, so i used PuRiFiEd water, just trying to watch...

...also im out here grinding a one br apt in chicago on a stovetop! trying to pay off my loans baby! if i had the space and money for equipment i would but ya boy is just trying! and not to do extract :P

hey i know i jumped into the fire! i have a 'northern brewer kit' on deck, but this was an xmas gift and i wanted to mess around. i would either learn a lot or make a great beer or both. anyways, to answer some of the hate (jk i appreciate all the help really, i am still learning!). I...

So, if i missed my OG, what are some reasons why and what should i look to do to remedy for next time? If i mash and get some good wort, and add in extra .5lb or lb of sugar, boil, and pitch yeast, where is my error to cause such a low OG? Also, any guesses as to the "worst" case scenario...

i did not *taste* the wort but it did smell sweet. the recipe i followed had an og of 1.060 and I used the same ingredient list and temperatures (granted i was stove top so i was kinda playing with flames up/down as temperature required, but i kept a very hovering hand over it)...might have...

Hey all, Just bottled my first batch of homebrew and I am pretty scared that I royally messed up somewhere in the process. I went all grain for my first batch (jumped into the fire) and I followed this recipe pretty accurately, but have a few questions ultimately around the question of...