Recent content by Kpfeifle0306

Good advice. I will try that with the rest of them and see if it improves, and thanks everybody else...all good advise that I will try with my next batch!

Beer was bottled for 2 weeks, which was the kit recommendation. It was at 70 plus or minus a degree or two. Beer was chilled overnight in refrigerator before drinking. Kevin

Hello All, OK, so I started in this fascinating hobby with a 1 gallon kit. Made a NB brown ale and tried it and it came out excellent. Really tasted great and I quickly (within a few days of each other) made two other kits, an IPA and their West Coast Red, just tried both of them... So let me...

Excellent advise everybody, thank you very much!

Cool, will do. I'm in this for the long haul, so it will be interesting to see. I have additional fermenters and more kits inbound. Thinking I might need a small fridge and a Johnson control device at some point. Just not sure the size of a small fridge would hold 2 1 gallon bottles with airlocks.

Hi All, So I made up my first batch a couple days ago, a 1 gallon kit of Caribou Slobber from NB. I think brewing went fine, and I pitched the yeast 3 days ago. For the first 2 days, I had an active head with a lot of co2 through the blow off tube. After 2 days, the head collapsed and I...

Nice, kids medicine syringe is a great idea! Off to my local CVS tomorrow.

Hello All, Just getting into this fascinating hobby by doing a couple of 1 gallon kits. Everything seems to be going great so far (time will tell). However, I just purchased some Star-San to use for my next batch. The mixture level is 2 tablespoons to 5 gallons from the back of the package. So...