Recent content by HAMMERDOWN

I'm pretty new to this so please be patient. What is the ice chest for?

Washed and sterilized all everything, made up the priming sugar and added it to the bottling bucket, then tranfered the beer from the carboy to the bucket. Filled the bottles, capped them off and set them in the spare room for 2 1/2 weeks. Same thing i've done with all of the beers I've made...

Well finially tried it last night, it didnt carbonate. Guess I lost to much yeast. It had a really good flavor though, probably one of the best beers I've made to date. If it just would have carbonated. Any chance of saving it somehow? or is it lost?

Going to bottle this weekend, sneak another little taste. I'll post up how it comes out. Kinda dark in color.....

My fermentation temp was 77*. Next time I am using the blow off bucket. The wife had a fit and the spare room still smells like beer....which is ok with me.

Like I said its only my 6th batch, but so far this is the first time there has been any yeast blow off. It must have firmented b/c its basically doing nothing in the carboy. Its been in there for a week, I am thinking I'll leave it in there for another 4 or 5 days then bottle.

what is pitching at 100 instead of 70 going to do to the beer? did all of my yeast blow out of the top?

Hi guys, new here to the forums, been home brewing for about a year now and love it! I have a question, I have made about 6 batches from extract and (most) of them have turned out really good so far. BUT, this time I tried to make a honey wheat, I started with a proven wheat kit from the...