Recent content by gatorhick

Always open the bottles after being chilled. They spent 3 weeks in secondary and had a steady SG reading before bottling. I'm thinking i should let it spend more time in secondary. Is time in secondary more beneficial than time in bottles? I understand that it needs a certian time to...

I just had a carbonation problem myself on a Fat Tire Clone, I only used about 3/4 bag of priming sugar trying to mimic the low carbination of fat tire. Layed it down for over three months, still foaming up like crazy on a pour. No idea what i did wrong????!!!

Sorry, cut off rest of recipe. Anyways, is my logic wrong thinking the alcohol content should have went up?

So I am a little confused about my FG reading on a brew I am trying for the second time. Original recipe called for 5lbs plain extra light DME, on second round I bumped this up to 6lbs of DME in an effort to increase ABV%. First Round: OG 1.050, FG 1.010 ABV 5.25% Second Round: OG 1.052...

Have a question on playing with a Fat Tire Clone recipe. I brewed it once with pretty good success, although i want to play with ingredients. First of all the first batch seemed to be over carbed, can this be cured by just cutting back on priming sugar? I have also substituted the reccommended...

So i'm pretty new at Homebrewing but totally hooked, getting ready to bottle my third batch (fat tire clone). For Christmas I got the book Extreme Homebrewing by Sam Calagione owner of Dogfish Head brewery and I'm eating up all of the different ideas/tips/off-base methods they use. One...

So this is my first brew, i chose to do an English Brown Ale. i was in primary for 9 days was holding steady on my hydrometer and siphoned into a secondary carboy. I got so used to the vigorous fermentation in the primary i guess i expected to see at least something happening in secondary, but...