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thanks you guys, I forgot that math has to be done. It's my second batch of beer. I started this beer at 50 degrees as it says, but the darn weather snuck up on me and it got up to 70 for about 3 days. It's nice a clear, and has a great taste so I'm happy with that. I sure appreciate all the...

I put up a pilsner Urquell, boiled the mash by accident but it still has good smell and taste, partial grain. It's been 5 weeks and the spec gravity is 1.012 this is according to the gauge about 2.5% alchohol. What do you think went wrong. I used a good pilsner yeast and when I transfered it to...

Great idea. Here's the problem. I had a really tasty batch of pale ale fermenting in my closet. Using the 5 gal plastic buckets with the spigot just an inch or so up from the bottom, you know the kind. It was sitting on the carpet behind the door, I was getting my bottles ready to fill, I had...

Ive made about 4 batches and haven't had any come out bad so I guess i need to screw something up to find out what doesn't work

Ya, well I guess I'm still in the nervous stage of brewing

It says steep at `150 for 20 min. Who knows??? Ya that's my next step. right now i have a few things i need to take care of that are more important than beer. Ya I know,,,, WHAT... more important that BEER? I'm looking forward to moving on to full grain beer and I have some ideas about a mash...

Maybe, what I really need is some higher tech equipt. I have a propane burner I salvaged from an old bar-b-que at the junk yard, a burner stand I made from a xmas tree stand and thats it. Oh i have a pot to boil my wort in. Turn the flame on, when it gets hot i move the pot, then put it back on...

Well that makes me feel better. It's darn hard to keep my pot at 150, right now it's about 40 out so it cools real quick. thanks

I am making a pilsner urquell, with some grains and some extract. The grains were supposed to steep at 150 for 20 min. I accidently got them boiling, they boiled for about 2-5 min before I notices and I took it off the heat and cooled it with some iced distilled water. what is this going to do...

Thanks for all the replies. This beer was made with 3lb Coopers hopped IPA malt, and 3lb Bries Sparkling Amber malt. I followed the directions in 'the book' explicitly, and also got some tips from Larry, at Larrys Brew Supply in Kent, WA. The beer fermented for 1 1/2 weeks and then into a...

I think it looks great. It's minimalistic, yet the background which could be ocean, mountains and sky keeps the eye moving. I love a big red with oak character

First off you guys here are great. Trial by error would take a long time to get things right. So I wrote about my 1st batch and nothing bubbling, I added more yeast after about 4 days and still not much action. I found out that the plastic buckets from Canada, have been causing a lot of brewers...

I pitched my first batch Sat Jan 24. used Coopers IPA and Bries Sparkling Amber.Followed all sanitization rules, got my yeast working before I pitched it, cooled the wort, pitched the yeast, poured it into my 2 gal of sterile water it my fermetor from about 4 feet up to aerate it. I was told...

Thanks, I forgot to take a reading! I also used unboiled tap water to add the new yeast, I know better, hope I get lucky

I just put up my 1st batch. Sat.24th. Today 27 still no action. I used Muntons dry yeast. everything sanitized etc. put it in a cup with some clean water at 75 degrees, let it set for 10-15 min. added some cooled wort, while my wort was cooling. I saw a few tiny bubbles before I pitched it...