Recent content by MikePenn

I tried to set my self up for 5 gallon brewing, it is hard to do living in an apartment on the 7th floor with an electric stove. I did this mainly becuase when doing research I found way more information and recipes for 5 gallons. Well after doing more reseach I found that the recipes are...

I brewed a DuClaw's Venom Clone and wanted to watch the process and see what light will do to the beer so I fermented it in a glass carboy for 3 weeks uncovered in my apartment (no direct sunlight but all the light from the windows and the house lights) and it tastes fine. I like to mess things...

Yeah the wife supports me, but like all adults she sees the risks at hand if we did go after something like this. I do like the idea of what the J Wells Brewery is, the Nano brewery also the idea of a LHBS sounds fun. This is a great hobby and introducing others to this hobby would be fun. Plus...

Update time, the one with the foam on the top, not sure where it came from but it tasted perfectly fine. The one with the floating "LSD" tab, well after having a couple of sips the after taste was unbearable and the flavor was masked, not sure what the off flavor was but it wasnt right. I ended...

Had this guy fermenting for 3 weeks in the primary then bottled, I am very proud of my self control because of bad timing and holiday visitation schedule with the SWMBO's family I was unable to RDWHB. I decided that a schedule needs to be in place to ensure that this holiday mistake doesn't...

Yeah i should have explained, the first one was the "ok" bottle, the rest of the batch looks that way so I am guessing and HOPING that maybe one or two bottles were not sanitized completely. Guess I should have clairified it was the "ok" bottle but who am I kinding of course you know what an...

I used sugar, the brewer's best packs sold at my LHB.

I bottled a Venom clone from DuClaws out here in Maryland, in preperation for bottling a Fat Tire clone I moved my bottle to a new location in my closet. A closer look I found that all but two looked like the first picture. One has an excess of foam and the other has a little guy floating at the...

I think I am going to start doing this to try out recipes, I would hate to make 48 of something I don't like. All I have is the my version of a full batch of 5 gallons. I know I am not in the same boat as maybe a larger scale homebrewer but is the 5 gallon primary/brew pot too big? Seems like it...

I was racking in a secondary but after reading the forums here I decided to try and see what keeping it in the primary produced. This is of course is for my own knowledge. If it turns out fine then I now have 3 primaries (i bought another bucket).

Ok so I am not going to open a bussiness right away, but after touring breweries, and enjoying the few brews I have created, the Idea has crossed my mind a couple of times every hour of the day. The idea has even led me to buy the "Brewing up a Bussiness" book writen Sam Calagione the Dogfish...

So I bottled this batch yesterday, and me and a buddy tried a little of it. It turned out perfectly, possibly better, after I said that the "fermentation was over" I decided to take a peek into the jug and I almost got knocked off of my feet from the smell of CO2. I dry hopped it a week ago (per...

In November I brewed my first beer, it was a brewer's best box set the Holiday Ale. I used only the ingredients included in the box, no fancy liquid yeast for me. After two weeks in the primary I transfered to the secondary as recommended. Then a week later I bottled it, after a week I drank it...

I used WP0001 (i think that is enough 0's). I have good news, I bought a new fermenting bucket, brewed a new batch (a fat tire clone) and I am going to direct my attention to that. This is so that I can ignore the one discussed in this thread and it work some magic. It will be interesting to see...

Thank everyone for your quick resonses, makes me feel better. Also I do have to say I feel like an idiot. I was searching in the fermentation threads and hit new thread when in fact I want to post into the beginners thread.