Recent content by Jockobono

Revvy, I'm terribly sorry for the oversized pics. I've always before reduced my pic size for attaching to a forum but in my haste to post, I neglected it this time here. Again, sorry. The problem/issue happened way before I opened a bottle to pour into the hydrometer. This is not the issue...

To Irisheyes, Gravity measures sugar (fermentables) content and potential alcohol. There's a lot more in beer than these two. Guys, I think I have a basic answer but not scientific. When I took a FG reading (of the 1st keg), the temp was about 80º F and the FG was 1.005. I assumed both were...

So . . this never happened before and I hope it never happens again but I still don't know what caused it to prevent it from happening again. By the FG it should have been fermented out of CO2 but it sure wasn't. Same exact brews from the same batch. Same exact yeast exactly measured from...

It's less than a day in carbonation. 3 days into carbonation is the first batch I bottled. FG of this fizzy mess is 1.001 WOW and still cookin'. But it tastes D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S! :drunk: I loosened all the caps on all the bottles lest they explode to let some of the gasses escape and tightened...

Again, this brew is identical to the brew I bottled 3 days prior. The FG of the 1st brew was ideal just what I was aiming for so I didn't bother to take a reading of this 2nd batch. I just opened a bottle of the suds and poured some into my hydrometer and all I get is suds. Look > When...

I've been brewing for a number of years and this has never happened before. I brewed a 5 gal batch of extract and divided it equally into 2 Mr.Beer fermenters as I've done many times. After 2 weeks I checked the gravity of one keg and it was ready to bottle so I bottled it and all was as usual...