Recent content by MrRoche

Well, it's week 3, and I'm sitting down to enjoy one of these beers. I did a taste test every week. Week 1: barely carbed, not too fun to drink. Week 2: almost there, but I was hoping something would get "better". Week 3: nicely carbed, tasty beer. I put the cases out in the cold garage...

Well, tonight is day 3, and I just opened one. Nothing but an almost inaudible pssft. No bubbles that I could see rising in the bottle. Not wanting to waste it, I re-capped and marked the bottle so I remember which one it was. I'm feeling better about this now, thanks for all the advice...

So, if it takes more than a week to carb (2-3), would you read that as carbing normally, and you'd store at room temp? Or are you saying to be on the safe side and keep it as cool as possible after it's carbed? That's not a bad idea. The garage is in the low 50's now (Seattle "winter"), which...

Thanks everyone for the replies. I used the standard 5oz of priming sugar that came with the kit. I'll get these into a rubbermaid tonight, and will pop a bottle tomorrow to see what it's like. If it looks okay, then in a few weeks I'll wrap one in a towel and open it outside!

I just bottled my 3rd batch after 1 week in bucket primary and 1 in a BB secondary. Over that time I've been reading a ton of HBT forums posts and learning a lot. Last night I spend a few hours reading historical threads about when to go to secondary and when to bottle, and now I'm stressing...