Recent content by KellyHopkinsville

Northern Brewer Irish Red Ale 1-gal extract kit... but I also plan to bottle potato wine and hard cider!

UPDATE Well, Friday and Saturday I opened a few more bottles, and my thinking now is I have a couple of problems going on simultaneously. I opened a concentrate wine bottle that used a crown cap and it was under carbonated, which leads me to believe that bad swingtop seals by themselves are...

Thanks... I also found some good advice about number of tabs in the "comments" section of the Amazon page. Sorting this situation out gives me a good excuse to do more brewing!

Thanks Tasunka... how many of those tabs each would you recommend using for 12-oz, 16-oz and 22-oz bottles?

Hi Wobbly I was looking into the fizz drops... I have a lot of them because of the kits I've purchased from NB. What I read online, though, was that they gave inconsistent carbonation! Also, it seemed I had more control over consistency by stirring in priming sugar to the whole batch and then...

Thanks, kh54s10 and Balrog The best bottle conditioning temp I can get at this time is 66 degrees F. I opened the Irish Red Ale at about three weeks or a little more. The concentrate wine was closer to 2 weeks. I was going by the apparent carbonation as revealed by the plastic bottles. In...

Hi, I've been getting inconsistent carbonation results, and it's really puzzling me. Both for an Irish Red Ale (Northern Brewer 1-gallon recipe kit) and a frozen concentrate wine (one gallon; old orchard apple and cranberry) I have filled a plastic "monitor bottle" to keep track of the...

Hi nDub I'm sure it's possible to homebrew in an apartment but it has got be easier when you have more room. I was excited to finally have a basement and lots of closet space for fermentation and storage. I still wish my kitchen was about twice as big as it is. Brewing and bottling seems to...

Thanks, Max Take it from me, it is DEFINITELY gingery! Next time I believe I'll backsweeten it a little.

I've been lurking (and learning) a lot on this site and I wanted to check in officially and say hello. I recently moved to a house in northern delaware and the whole time I was looking and finding a place to live I was thinking, "I want to start homebrewing". Now I have the space to do it! As...