Recent content by Bringamanabeer

Thanks to all who answered. Bottled it last night and it tasted fine, smelled fine, and probably IS fine. Tasted pretty good, actually. Appreciate the help.

I know a local brewery that dry hops a big bag of hops in the keg before they fill it with beer, and it then sits aging in their cooler room. While I'm no where near knowing what I'm doing, I've seen a good brewer do what csurowiek is saying. It can't hurt, and might fix it for ya. :)

Oh man, get ready to duck, move to cover, and communicate! You just poked the hornet nest. I too am brand new here and the 1st response was "why did you secondary" after I had mentioned it was my 1st brew. Good luck!:ban:

At least the oars have a dual capability as motor and wort stirring utensil:D

Is that a hard and fast rule? Or just maybe a guideline? Years ago when in the Air Force, I seem to remember drinking my share of warm, flat, beer (or what passed for beer) in Korea. I'm sure my 1st effort, hazey white ring and all, will be better than that stuff. Right? RIGHT? Man I sure...

WOW! That is quite a price range there. Hopefully I can keep it near the Rubber Yacht end of the scale. Parch kit and an oar now and then seems reasonable to me. :rockin:

Boats are real poular here, and I have friends that have boats, but they call them the ultimate money pit, and I remind them of this everytime they start listing all the parts they are buying in order to get the thing back on the water for another season. At least drinking beer keeps my...

Well, that's less than $1000.00 per year. Sounds like the guys didn't do a very complete job; I bet a ton of new stuff has come along to buy in 11 years. Better head the LBS right now! You are behind! :mug:

NICE! I was going to justify buying a keg or two by pointing out the bottle issue. Good to know my hypothesis has merit in an empirical way.:D

At the speed you guys want me to move, it's a wonder beer takes so long. Now I have to get into programmable logic controllers, automated ball valves, fly pumps, temp sensors, gas control solenoids, oxygen infusion, co2 controls, nitrogen infusion.............. Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh! How...

Jeeeeeeeezzzzzzz....... Give me a chance, now. :) It's my 1st batch and I'm a married guy. A married guy can't just start buying all kinds of new gear for beer making. I have to go at an unnoticeable pace; like I do for buying parts for my old cars. :D The Kegerator plans have been...

Thanks Yooper. That's my plan; get it bottled this weekend. I have tasted it both when originally boiled and again when I was moving it to the secondary, and it has been fine. Thanks to all that gave input, I appreciate it!:rockin: Gotta go buy some beer again....... for the bottling...

I had to actually buy beer to make beer......how sad. cswis86, it kind of looks that way, but isn't it suspicious that it is heaviest right at the top edge of the beer, fading lighter as it descends into the carboy? I was out of town when it quit bubbling in the fermenter and it had stopped...

Because I am new and can follow directions?:D I have read a lot of the "don't secondary" threads here, but that was AFTER I followed my directions that came with the extract kit. Thanks for the input though.

This is my 1st brew, a Porter, that is about 7 days into the secondary stage. I have been as picky as possible with sanitation and thoroughlt sanitized the racking pump ant tubing, etc. I was as careful as could be about keeping the tube under the liquid during the transfer into the carboy...