Recent content by msudawgs267

No, not yet. It looks pretty normal at the top. Nothing weird or anything, I'll just wait till tomorrow to taste it before bottling. Thanks for the help!

I made a wheat beer and for various reasons I could not bottle at the 3 week mark like I wanted. It has now been fermenting for 58 days (8 weeks). Is it ruined? Should I bottle and hope for the best? Any input is appreciated, thanks everyone!

Here are a couple pics of what I am talking about. I usually bottle 2 or 3 in like a Corona or Heineken bottle just so I can have a clear bottle to see everything thats going on. I tasted like somewhat of a sanitizer taste. Here are the pics:

I finished my first english pale ale about 3 days ago and bottled it and went to go look at a couple and they have this white film on the top of each bottle. When i brewed my blonde batch about 3 weeks ago I never noticed such film. Anyone have any ideas? Is it normal or does it have to do with...

We didn't add priming sugar to each individual bottle we boiled down the standard 5oz. for a 5 gallon batch and mixed it in while transferring the non-carbonated beer to the bottling 5 gallon drum. I was worried about the same thing but we jammed it down in there pretty far, so I guess we will...

I was over at a friends and we were finishing bottling up and we had about 2 beers worth of bottling left to do and ran out of bottles. So as an experiment we used a 1 wine bottle for the last 2 and re-corked (just pushed the cork all the way back down) it just to see what would happen. What can...

I use a standard wing capper but thanks for the advice. I'll probably do 3 or 4 bottles with twist off using a wing capper and see what happens. Thanks for the help guys

Can you use twist off bottles when bottling your beer? I have a capper and caps and have tried to cap an empty twist off bottle and it worked, but it seems like the seal was not as tight as a re-capped pry off bottle. Do I need to make sure I use pry off bottles only? Thanks for the help

With my first batch I used a standard dry yeast and am now wanting to experiment with liquid yeast (White Labs WLP 005 for a British Ale). I know I need to do a starter to evaluate the health of the yeast (which is what I read). But I have no idea what that means. How do I test the yeast to make...

I have been reading the board for about a month now and a lot of people have helped even though they have no idea. Just started brewing about a month ago and have one batch under my belt and a second one coming soon. Look forward to talking about brewing!