Recent content by kiznile

Alright, looks like a flop, def has some off flavors, not great. I'm gonna age a few in the closed and a couple in the fridge and see if any turn out alright

No signs of catastrophe yet. The cap popped up and crowned on my last failed batch. None of that.

5 days now. No kaboom yet. Very little sediment from priming sugars and yeast floculating. Caps aren't even bloated. May have pulled it off lol.

Bottled it a couple days ago now. Only dropped 3 priming tabs per bottle to try and prevent over conditioning if the FG really was accurate at 1.03. No leaking or popped caps... Fingers crossed!

I did not..you make a great point..totally didn't even consider that. I'll cross my fingers and hope for the best. Lessons learned right? :)

No clue what yeast the refill came with. I keep getting free brooklyn brewshop refills from a friend. Comes with all the grains and yeast, but doesnt itemize it out. So i really dont know what yeast it is. The beer is actually quite sweet still. It's definitely measuring 1.040 on the hydrometer...

Fantastic, thanks for the feedback. Firstly, I used a hydrometer to take the readings. Now, next question: Since I used a kit, the strain of yeast was not indicated. I have no idea what strain of yeast it was. I have some fresh SafAle US-05, would it be safe to use this? Update: Only thing i...

Hi All, I started brewing less than a year ago thanks to someone who gifted me a brooklyn brew shop 1 g kit. I thought I'd try one last "refill" on this kit before starting a full blown 5g brew. I've never tried anything but all grain so far, so here goes. Chocolate Maple Porter...