Recent content by joeyjoejoe

Checking back in. Gravity Sunday morning was still 1.014, so I bottled. There were so much hops in the carboy that the siphon was repeatedly clogged. In the end I wound up with about 3.3 gallons of beer. As a beginner I always lose a little beer throughout the process, but this was rather...

Update for anyone still watching this thread. Tuesday night the gravity was 1.016. Friday morning the gravity is 1.014. Safe to bottle yet? The longer the dry hops sit in there, the worse off I think I am at this point (it's been two weeks).

Thanks everyone. I recently broke my hydrometer and my local homebrew store was closed all weekend, so I'll be picking one up today to get the gravity readings. Good to know that things will probably be ok on this one. I'll follow up in a couple days.

I'm brewing the new NB Surly Furious extract kit. This brew has been a problem from the beginning. I was drunk when I made it, which certainly didn't help. Instead of aerating the wort prior to pitching the yeast, I dumped the yeast in and then shook everything around before I realized what I...

This will be bottled. Thank you both for the info. I think I will double up on the Centennial and put some in early and some in late.

I am about to transfer NB's "Three Hearted Ale" into secondary. The recipe calls for 1 oz. of Centennial dry hops to be added after a week of secondary. I have about 4 extra oz. of Centennial hops in my fridge. I like my beers bold and bitter; I'm considering adding more hops for perhaps...

Thank you for alleviating my newbie paranoia. Side note, it smells really good...

I brewed up my first batch of beer last night, I've got it sitting in a large dark closet. Opened the closet today and it smells like beer. This may be a stupid question, especially given that the airlock has holes in the top that allow bubbles to escape, but... ...should I be able to smell...