Recent content by Fontaine

Thanks for the great reply, puts my my mind at ease now anyway. Truthfully I don’t think the wine bottles will last long enough to build considerable pressure even if they could haha.

I guess my concern with the Apfelwein I have in the wine bottles is, is there anyway kicking up the yeast sediment could kickstart fermentation again once inside the wine bottles, I’m assuming there isn’t but just asking for confirmation? Just to clarify, I bottled the wine ones before adding...

Hey guys, I have a quick question. I put my first batch on in September and finally bottled it today. Last night when I took the carboy out, it was crystal clear and of course I sampled a bit and it tasted great. When I transferred it to my fastfermenter to bottle I noticed I sucked up a bit of...

So I fermented a bock style lager at about 68 for 2 weeks, then bottled. It’s currently sitting at 70 degrees in bottles for the past week. Should I leave it there for 2 more weeks then move it to an fridge at 34 for a few weeks before drinking? I don’t have a means of refrigerating my fermenter...

If you don’t mind me asking, did you buy a kit or did you make your own recipe to clone shiner bock? Shiner is my favorite beer but unfortunately I can’t purchase it where I live so I recently brewed the AHS extract kit with S23. I’m excited to see how it turns out, should be ready for drinking...

Has anyone tried their shiner bock extract clone recently? I bought a couple and I’m currently waiting on them to show up. I noticed in the instructions it mentions 5 HBU for the hops, but on other threads I’m reading a lot of people say they use brewers gold hops for shiner bock? Also, is...