Recent content by Fastsc92

Fingers crossed.....count me in

Another update... I took a SG reading the last few days. Final reading was 1.012 with a .001 correction factor. Therefore: (1.047-1.013) X 131.25= 4.5% ABV; right where it should be. With that in mind, I kegged it, in an attempt to get some more clarity to it and to free up the...

After all the great replies so far, I think I'll let it sit in the keg for an additional 2 weeks (if I can last that long). I know the priming sugar is used in order to carbonate the beer once in the bottle, but am I losing any flavoring by not using sugar? Heck, if I have to wait two weeks...

I plan to keep it in the primary for another week at least, and see where it's at next weekend. I guess what I'm confused about is that I'm kegging it, rather than bottling it. Therefore, I'm losing that 2-3 week aging time while it's undergoing self-carbonation. I'm afraid that I might never...

Update to this... I pulled off the cover to my primary after the 7 days in order to take a peek, as well as get another SG measurement. The starting SG measured in at 1.046, with a correction factor of 1. The final SG measured 1.018 with a correction factor of 1. Therefore: Starting=...

Hey all, Totally new to brewing and I had a few questions. Most of my questions I was able to find answers to by doing searches, but one in particular i wasn't able to find a definite answer to. A little background... I've always been into beer gizmos and I've expanded my draft beer...