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I've started experimenting with my own recipes; I always make a yeast starter to get the party started. My beers always have a raging fermentation and the gravity never seems to change after a week of fermentation. This has happened with my last three beers. How many days do you check for FG...

I double my keezer (when out of beer) as a temperature controlled fermenter. Living in Arizona, this works out pretty well as ambient temps are typically too high and I don't like the wet towel in a tub of ice water technique. This time, I'm fermenting two 5 gallon beers with great activity...

Thanks! Yeah, its funny Cheezydemon3 that you mention filtering with a hop bag. I was just reading my Joy of Homebrewing 3rd edition... on page 125 there is an illustration of straining the wort into the primary. I always thought I should ferment with the hops to extract all that AA goodness -...

So I'm brewing an Imperial IPA that required a pound of hops. I knew that would take quite a bit of volume and skew my liquid volume that I end up with so I overcompensated for the hops and "angels share" that happens in my primary fermenter. I sealed the primary with 5.75 gallons. OG was still...

I just finished conditioning a vanilla oat nut brown ale and it is perfect. Everyone that has tried it so far have really enjoyed it. Here's what I did: As I racked to the secondary fermenter, I purchased two whole beans at my local "Whole Foods" grocery store. Most of the recipes I read...

Well, I finally kegged on Friday 5/28 just about a month after brewing. I did pitch to a secondary and added two whole vanilla beans at this time. I first sliced them down the middle and then ran a knife down the center carving out the vanilla gooey goodness. I then chopped up the shell of the...

So far so good. I still have it in the primary since 4/29. Mainly because I have not bothered to grab some vanilla beans from the local store here. I can tell you brewing with oats created many a boil over. I practically had to sit there with my hand on the propane valve the entire time. I...

Thanks for your comments. So far, from what I have read about oats is that they lack the enzymes to convert starch into fermenable sugars. I'm going to have to learn how to premash by tonight! hehe, which is why I love this hobby so much. So, I need to figure out what grains will have the least...

I'm thinking of modifying an extract recipe from northernbrewer; their nut brown ale extract. What I would like to do is add oats to the grain bill for the purpose of giving it a little extra body and more head retention. I have brewed this recipe twice before and I enjoy it but it lacks a few...

It takes about 8 seconds to pour a pint and about 4 seconds to drink it which is a pretty good tap line balance... but I think you are talking about something different. The flow rate seems typical so I don't think I'm knocking C02 out of solution. You got me on the semantics of 'force...

Ok, so it is really a matter of me needing more patience. I thought slow natural carbonation in a corny keg takes 3-5 days. It sounds like I need to wait a bit longer. My friend who turned me onto homebrewing force carbonates all of his beers at about 30 PSI. His friend pounds and rocks their...

Technically, I have had it sitting in a keg carbonating at 7psi since 12/19/09 so it is just a little over 2 weeks. Most of what I have read says to expect to wait between 3-5 days for a keg to carbonate (I'm using 5 gallon corny kegs). I'm not getting all hung up on this but a good pour, a...

I recently kegged my first homebrew... well two of em. I made a nut brown ale and a Fat Tire clone. Both being ales I decided to carbonate at 7psi. The charts actually indicated 4-6psi for an English ale but I wanted to have it ready in time for the holidays. However, I did not want to force...