Recent content by floydgroove

Here's a couple more pics as well!

Well it's been 3 weeks in the bottles now, and everything appears to be fine! The taste isn't exactly what I expected or hoped for, but it's good! Doesn't appear to be contaminated or anything, still a little sweet. I'm going to check them again in a week. Just brewed my second batch this weekend!

Well I got two kits for my birthday. The one here is the Mirror Pond Pale Ale, and then I got a Flagstaff Honey Ale. The Mirror pond was 7 lbs of light extract, 2 oz's of cascade hops, and white labs WLP 0001 California Ale Yeast. I can't recall the steeping grains I used, but the kit was...

This brew went much smoother than my first. Less nervous equals less mistakes. It's a Mirror Pond Pale Ale. Hope it all goes well, I'll let you know.

I used half a cup of honey boiled in with two quarts of water to pitch with. Then I poured it in my bottling bucket before doing the siphon. Once everything was in, I used a sanitized metal spoon to stir with. I fermented for 12 days, but didn't do a secondary fermentation or hydrometer...

Hey so this is my first forum post along with my first brew. I finished bottling my Imperial IPA a little over a week ago, as there appeared to be no more yeast activity in the airlock. I wanted to open a small bottle I had filled to see how the carbonation was going. When I opened the trunk...