Recent content by fedoradude

So, I've left the bottled beer in the fridge for quite a while now (last sampling was July 7). Cracked open a couple of them with a bud of mine this afternoon. The extra time really helped mellow the green apple taste. Was all but gone. :mug:

I can do that.

Last night, I had another bottle of my first MBK batch. Color, carbonation and aroma all still abou the same, but wow! could I ever taste the green apple taste that I had read about elsewhere in this thread. And I gave it an extra week's aging both room temp and cold trying to ward that off...

The one that came with the LBK. I think they called it some kind of ale if I remember right.

As you'd requested, here's my notes from my tasting the first bottle from this batch (my first MBK): Golden color almost like apple juice Faint smell like beer Very carbonated, bubbles rising nicely in the glass for several minutes Glad I let it age the extra weeks in warm and cold...

Beats me. I did what came with the kit. But I think it was a lager kit.

That isn't what I'm doing. The MBK directions said to after adding the carbonation tablets during the bottling process to then let it set at room temp (where it did primary fermentation) for 2 weeks. THEN put it in the fridge. This is what I'm doing. I find this confirmed in the following...

My Mr. Beer video says to let it stay in the bottle at room temperature for 2 weeks then to put the bottles in the fridge for a longer time. That's why I'm doing it. Just followin' directions.

I had a devil of a sinus headcold and didn't taste it when I bottled it. Figured my messed up nose and sinuses wouldn't have been anywhere near accurate. But I did notice the room in which it was fermenting in smelled quite yeasty a couple days before the bottling.

I just left it in the cooler but at room temp - 70 degs or so. That's what I understood the MB video instructions to say. And I've got it in the bottles back in that same cooler at room temp for 2 weeks per the video.

My 1st batch o' brew is IN the bottle. Some interesting developments in fermentation though. For example when I opened the ice chest it's been fermenting in for 3 weeks there had obviously been some seepage (?) out the cap. But not too much.

Since I seem to be up and brewing with my LBK now. Anyone have any Mr Beer refill suggestions for my next batch?

I was sitting at my desk this morning thinking about this leakage problem round the spigot hole.... Then it struck me! What'd I have to lose gently taking some fine grit sandpaper to the overhang/lip along the mold seam that was causing the problem? SO, tonight after work I gently sanded the...

I was sitting at my desk this morning thinking about this leakage problem round the spigot hole.... Then it struck me! What'd I have to lose gently taking some fine grit sandpaper to the overhang/lip along the mold seam that was causing the problem? SO, tonight after work I gently sanded the...

Hmmm. I might try that on the spigot on my LBKs that - neither one - seem to seal tight enough to be leak tight per their directions.