Recent content by Marty-Mart

Anyway, so I though I'd let you guys know that, despite my little disaster, the beer seems to have turned out really well in the end. I'm drinking a bottle right now and it tastes great. It's only been a week since I bottled it so maybe there's a little harshness to it that will mellow out if I...

Darn, I hadn't though of that, and I do have quite hairy arms :D It did have an O-ring on it, on the inside though. Which I think may have contributed to it breaking.... (I could explain why I think this contributed to it breaking but you would probably fall asleep before you finished reading...

Noooo!!!!!!

Okay this is the recipe. 1.5 kilos LME 1.5 kilos Liquid Malt Wheat Extract 1 kilo Dry Wheat Malt Extract 40 grams Hallertauer Hersbrucker 12 grams Challenger 12 grams Saaz One pack of Wyeast 3068 for Wheat Beers When I listed the items I bought above I didn't mean that I'd used 250...

Haha, I almost did have a heart attack. When I said it cost around $100 I was converting from Euros as I actually live in Spain. And in fact, I got it wrong, it's closer to $140 that it cost me, I just checked the exchange rate. Currently 100.00 EUR = 142.149 USD!!! So are you telling me that in...

I'm trying to make a wheat beer and I was 7 days into fermentation. I was intending to leave it for 2 weeks in primary and then bottle. No keg I'm afraid, only bottles. I think I'm gonna risk bottling it anyway. This is only the second batch of beer I have ever made so I'll just consider it part...

Hi, this is a bit of a long story but I need to get it off my chest and there is question at the end which I would grateful of some replies. I have just had the most unlucky thing happen to me. The wort had been in the fermenter for about a week and I decided that I was going to take a...