Recent content by masteroflobsters

I brewed a kolsch, and the original gravity was 1.056 (maybe slightly higher). Last Thursday, I took a gravity reading, and it was down to 1.017. Three days later, the gravity was the same. The problem is that, according to an abv calculator, the "apparent attenuation" was only 69%, while the...

I am considering upgrading from my 1-gallon beer brewing kit to a 5-gallon kit. I may be unable to use an outdoor gas stove (I live in an apartment), so I might have to rely on an electric stove. Is it possible to bring 5 gallons of wort to a boil on an electric stove? I was told that it is...

Today, I tried to bottle a 1-gallon batch of beer. For various reasons, I was only able to prime and bottle 5 or 6 bottles, but I'm afraid of a bottle bomb because, 1. I used the amount of sugar used to prime 1 gallon to prime 0.5-0.6 gallons of beer. 2. I stirred my priming sugar with...

I have been using a kit from Brooklyn Brew Shop that comes with a screw cap to put on the fermenter jug. After brewing and storing it, I noticed that the screw cap was broken, and, the next morning, foam was oozing out of the sides of the cap. I put wet paper towels around the cap, and now the...

I made a gallon-sized batch of beer a few weeks ago, and I think that some undiluted starsan may have leaked onto my ingredient pack. The starsan caused the ink on the grain label to smear, so I'm worried that it may have bled through. If an extremely slight amount of undiluted starsan bled into...

I have a "smack pack" bag from wyeast, and I didn't know that it took 3 hours to swell. I put an airlock on my fermenter, but will it ruin the beer if I wait 3 hours to pitch the yeast?

I put a bottle of starsan in a bag with some carbonating beer bottles and some ingredient packs. When I was taking my things out, I noticed that there was something dark and sticky on the labels and on my beer bottles. The source was the starsan bottle, and I concluded that I had a leak around...

Yes, the instructions said to let it ferment for 2 weeks, and I let it ferment for 3.

Thanks. Should I just wait until the full 2 weeks are up before refrigerating? Also, will there be a problem drinking it, considering what I said about the sanitizer?

I bottled by first batch last Wednesday, and my instructions say to wait two weeks before drinking. I opened a (room temperature) bottle of beer today to test it, and foam started gushing out once I opened it. Is this just because it was at room temperature, or is my beer overcarbonated? If it...

Thanks, I was afraid of some kind of dangerous explosion. I used Starsan for sanitizer. I bought Brooklyn Brew Shop's kit, which is used for one-gallon batches, to practice with until I get better.

I just bottled my first batch, which is the "Everyday IPA" from Brooklyn Brew Shop. The beer in my fermenter was slightly below the "One Gallon" mark, so I put only 2-2/3 tablespoons in my pot instead of 3, which the recipe told me to do. I accidentally got some yeast in my pot, so I only wound...