Recent content by cryokinetic

Fruity pebbles in a bottle in a very bad/good way... total hangover.

I'm a fan of Nissan, Toyota, and Dodge. Used to drive a 97 nissan king cab (the year before they were called frontier). I'd still be driving it if it hadn't been t-boned by a caprice. Even so, I kept driving it for another year (the caprice was totalled). Currently drive an 05 ram 1500. I...

Yeah... I stupidly pointed that out :-P

"isn't that every day?" win!

Just took a gravity measurement on mine. OG was 1.029 (assuming I didn't **** up the measurement... seems a little low for a stout) measured 1.022 today (6 days later). Looked like the airlock was about to start going again when I moved the carboy to a warmer room.. but it's gone back to...

It's been about 5 days since i pitched. But I can wait a fw more days to check. Not in any rush.

Cool cool. I'll take a hydrometer reading as soon as I get home from class (about 20min).

Just thought of a followup question... Would now (while the yeast appears to be inactive) be a good time to transfer to the secondary fermentor?

Thank god someone else posted this first. I had the exact same problem with my batch over the weekend. Pitched thurs night. Was fermenting extremely vigorously on friday and sat mornings. No activity in the airlock and no krausen on sunday evening. Was about to run to the homebrew shop to buy a...

Welcome. I'm in your area (sort of) and just got started around the same time as you.

Brewing a Mountmellick extract irish stout at some point this weekend

Hi all. Just got started over the holidays. Have only brewed one batch so far (a bock... and I screwed up the carbonation a little)... but I am very excited to be part of the home brewing community.