Recent content by Crisp

Hi guys me again Just took another grav reading today, I have some copper tun finings I was going to do the method of boiling some water displaying and pouring on top today.... is it ready for finings? And bottling Saturday ? Today is Wednesday ..... should I leave hop bag in ??? It...

Yet another Update guys :) I'm quite excited though my first ever Brew is smelling and sample tastes lovely Decided to take another grav reading today as aiming to bottle this weekend.... it looks to have changed a little bit ey The dry hopping must be doing its job as it smelt and tasted...

Thanks for the reply guys a big help .... I have a feeling my rookieness came into play taking my First grav reading, the wort hadn't been chilled enough I don't think, I remeber seeing somewhere that optimal temp is about 20oC Aww well it's mah first brew so see how it comes out, and...

So iv put my OG and the reading I just took into a calculator And it's come back with quite a low % is there anyway of increasing this, this far down the track ????

Hi guys Just put my dry hops in and took a grav reading It smelt bloody good and tasted quite nice in my opinion Here's the reading I'm guessing it's about 1.12 ish ??? And believe that's quite good ey :) So anyway it's back in the closet to dry hope for another week My...

Hi dude that gravity reading was after cooling the wort I think it could have done with cooling down a bit more .... I havnt taken another reading since pitching, sweet maybe I will get some more citra to dry hop with ..... thanks for the replys by the way guys :)

Hi guys Awesome forum, I have finally decided to stop lurking for knowledge and sign up and share my happenings as a new brewer.... I chose to go down the route of boiling my malt extract even though it was hopped but also added hops rite towards the end of the boil, I also chose to do a...