Recent content by jiujiujiu

All the gear used is part of my parents' beer and wine equipment. I believe it was the "baster" we used to gently suck out beer to test the gravity in a cylinder. Everything is in the basement and it isn't really clean down there. We, of course, sanitized everything with a StarSan solution...

Could we boil it, pitch new yeast, then be ok?

My father's ESB has developed white streaks on the surface of the beer. It was fine when we racked it from the bucket to the glass carboy, but must have picked up a bug on the way over. I'm of the opinion that we bottle it anyway and drink it. Is this salvageable? The beer doesn't smell...

I bottled today. After I siphoned the beer into the bottling bucket I realized the bucket was leaking. I lost 5-6 bottles worth of beer while bottling. Out of about 4.5 gallons I bottled 42 12oz bottles. It tastes fine. Just flat. I guess I'll see in about 2 weeks.

I warmed it back up to see if anything would happen. I'll bottle tomorrow.

I just checked the SG and it was 1.009. I calculated it to be at 5.25% ABV and drank the beer I used to test it. It tastes like a flat warm pale ale which is a good thing as far as my taste buds are concerned and I can feel my head swimming a bit from the alcohol. There is a problem, however...

I just stuck it in the bathtub and ran the hot water. Yeast quickly started shooting up to the surface and now it is foaming up and giving me a bubble every few seconds. I must have really messed up the temperature the last couple of weeks. I thought the closet at room temp would be good enough.

It's almost been three weeks and I am still getting a bubble every couple minutes. Fermentation temp too cold?

Yea, so I brewed another kit in the mean time. Belgian dark kit. It had 3 cans of extract as opposed to two in the last kit, a smaller bag of grain, a different hop addition timing, and a big bag of brown sugar. It's black and smells delicious.

Thanks. I actually found another thread on here where someone brewed the exact same kit as I did and asked the same question about cloudiness. Just needs more time. I'm getting a bubble like once a minute now.

My beer is very cloudy. What's wrong?

Yes, I sanitize everything by soaking in a pot of starsan solution. The closet door is always closed. I do have a carboy handle, but just haven't put it on yet. I was just wondering when I should start checking the FG. The bubbles are going painfully slow now and this is only day 5. Isn't...

Oh, I soak everything in a pot of starsan solution. Pump it through my syphon etc.

Here are some pictures... And a video at about 24hrs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdEAjBKflrg&feature=youtu.be

On the 17th I started my first batch of beer. I went out and grabbed all the gear I'd need from a local supplies store and chose a kit for American Pale Ale. I was super excited when I got home and drove out to WalMart to get a big 22qt stock pot for steeping grains and boiling hops. I...