Recent content by invisibletrubble

Just opened a bottle. At day 3 it's pretty much more carbonated than I'll ever need. Just lifted the bottle out of the box and popped the cap to see where it's at. It foamed for a solid 2 minutes... It's still so damned sweet. It taste more like a mead than anything else. I'm gonna vent all the...

I used table sugar as the priming sugar. The yeast in the batch was the Wyeast 3711. The beer sat in the fermenter for 4 weeks. The starting SG was about a 1.080 and now it's a 1.012 after the sugar check. I lost about 1.5gallons in the bottling and transfer process. Went down to a little...

Too many cooks... I had a friend help me with the priming since it ran a little longer than I anticipated and I had to duck out. I told him how much sugar I added to the bottling and headed out while it was still boiling. It cooled by the time I got back and the dishwasher finished...

This is exactly what I was looking for, I just wasn't sure how to go about it. Thanks a metric ton(minimum). I think I'm going to use some sort of organic honey since I used that in the saison. There's also a possibility that I may just skip bottling all together and go straight to kegging.

Luckily for me the fridge in my basement came pre-drilled to fit a keg with taps and all I'd just need the CO^2 probably. I haven't looked much into the cost but thanks for the heads up. Sounds like I should probably just get the kegs then. I'll update on the results.

The seller is throwing in a set of new O-rings so that's at least reassuring. Hmm that's also a viable option. I may just trust it and go with it. I mean the cost is pretty good even if they just end up being fermenters. Got a ballpark on the price? I've got a couple weeks to get into it...

Hey guys, I'm still relatively new to this homebrewing game but that won't stop me from going all in. I was short a few bottles and through some luck, I may have stumbled into some reasonably priced corny kegs and I'm wondering if anyone has any tips on how to test them for viability. Is...

Thanks. I'm a few degrees warmer but I think it should be fine. I'll get started on the batch and update this when I bottle.

Thanks for the thorough answers. I really appreciate it. You've definitely helped assuage some of my concerns. I think I'll try this method out and test within that third week. I'm worried about the orange flavors so might as well taste it then too. Far too often I've had homebrews from...

So you guys think my best bet is to go Saison?

So I just started brewing again after a good ~3year hiatus. I got a MWSupp beginner kit as a secret Santa gift and felt the time had come. Never one for testing the water first, I decided my first brew would be a beer that I'd be really proud of. I sort of formulated my own recipe for a...

I've just started brewing again and due to some unforeseen luck I ended up with 2 glass carboys as well as a primary bucket. Currently, I've got the bucket fermenting. I've got some extra yeast I might as well use and with the orange pepper saison sitting pretty somewhere between 72-74...