Recent content by Kilroy08

I tried taking a picture, but it didn't turn out. Best way I can describe them is that they look like cracked grain. I've got the carboy in my kegerator cold crashing now. I might rig up some sort of filter or strainer for my racking cane.

Right now I have an English ale that I brewed from a Brewer's Best extract kit. I did everything I was supposed to and tossed a whirfloc tablet in at the end of the boil. By the way, it was a 2 1/2 gallon boil. The primary, secondary, and assorted tools of the trade were all sanitized...

The instructions on the yeast give a window of 64° to 74° for desired fermentation temperature.

It recommended an ideal pitching temp of 62-70 degrees. Since it's an ale, my temperature control is the coolest, darkest closet. About 70 or so. I skimmed off the excess ice, pitched the yeast, and gave it a good stir. Now I'm just doing what it needs, leave it alone and don't mess with it.

The source of today's excitement is a Brewer's Best brew kit for English Bitter. I did everything on schedule with a 2.5 gallon boil going from the grains to the malt continuing on through the hops and tossing in a whirlfloc tablet at the last 15 minute mark. Then comes the time to cool...

In retrospect, I probably should have put gas on it and gone that way. Oh well, I'll chalk it up as a learning experience.

I just wrapped up kegging my continental pilsner yesterday. I cold crashed it and clarified with gelatin and let everything chill in the carboy for about a week since work has been busy and I couldn't do much until the weekend. I tossed in the priming sugar and racked from the secondary to...

All seems to be off to a good start. I went to check the gravity and saw the krausen has receded. So, Here's things so far. Boiling Transferring to Secondary Now I'm just waiting

I honestly can't remember if I've posted here or not. I joined back in 2009 ish, but school was to busy to start brewing. Anyway, I'm here now. I took the money I got for Christmas and decided to start brewing. Hopefully my batch of Altbier will be ready in the next month or so. Back to...