Recent content by Fast Cletus

Damn your right I should of taken a pic. I guess I can look at it this way. My beer was so good a bee took his own life to have some

I just racked off my Youngers Special Bitter clone, and noticed something in remaining trub. A bumble bee. Surely this has happened to someone before. Cant think that this will hurt my brew, but would like to know if anyone has had this happen. My fermentation started off very well, but...

Hazelnut porter

My MLT called Walter. Have no idea why I called it walter, but thats its name now. He is giving me some Hazelnut porter. Thats my sparger on top

I hosted a teach a friend to homebrew day on Saturday that turned out horrible. Can someone tell me where I went wrong? I heated 3.5 gallons of water to about 168. I added grains to the water (about 13 lbs of grains). I heated the grains in the pot until they were about 152 and stirred to...

Whew, I was nervous. This beer should turn out great and I was afraid i ruined it

Oops I just relased the hops in the container and then read the bag that said to drop hops in boiling water then add to beer. Any idea what my outcome will be?

Thanks I think I will add hops today and then bottle in a week

I am on my second Home brew, A Fuller's ESB Clone. All went well in the primary fermentation. I racked fromthe fermentor to the carboy, and was waiting for a little activity, but I haven't seen any. My questions are two fold. How long should I let the beer rest before priming and bottling...