Recent content by DChomeBrewer

So I am making a cider with the White Labs WLP-665 Flemish Ale blend. It uses Brett so fermentation has taken a long time. (4 months!) The problem is, it took so long that I stashed it in a closet and haven't checked on it in a couple weeks. The airlock is no longer bubbling, so it's...

I actually just finished a cider that got an unintentional Brett "infection." I racked for bottling before realizing I had forgotten to buy bottles, so the cider sat in the bottling bucket for a few days until I could get to the homebrew store. When I finally got my bottles and opened the...

I racked my cider after primary intending to bottle it, when I realized i didn't have enough bottles. My nearest homebrew store is a half hour away and I don't have a car, so it was a couple of days before I could bottle. When I opened it up to prime, there was film yeast...

1) I certainly hope that's the case, but I kind of doubt it since I stirred very well then siphoned between a bucket and carboy twice to aerate before taking the reading. I really shouldn't have water on top at that point. I also did this with exactly 5 gallons of bottled water because DC tap...

Recipe was for 5 and when I plugged everything in as shown below it said I should be at 1.046.

I just brewed a batch of beer, and the original gravity is WAY lower than it should be. I measured it at 1.032 before pitching the yeast. I brewed with: 3.3lb Porter malt syrup 3.3lb Special dark malt syrup 1lb Crystal 90 malt 1lb Chocolate malt 1lb Flaked barley .5lb Rolled oats...