Recent content by Neil humphreys

Ok so it’s been a hot minute and I took a bottle and refrigerated it for a day. Cracked it open tonight and....... it hissed when I cracked the lid but the taste is like straight vinegar. There is. I other words to describe how terrible it is.

Yeah I’d never seen an airlock like that before either but I can see the concept of it. The air builds up and pushes the cup up. The air then travels through the water under the cup and out into the container and out the top of the airlock. Simple but effective I guess lol. I did not taste the...

Sorry. Been on 24 hour duty and head still isn’t straight. Just checked back and I’ll check them out. Thank you.

I’ll have another look at the bottles in a few days time and see what the out come is for them. The next beer I will try to make from your suggestions above. I have about 3 months of training coming up so I won’t be able to start or do anything for a little while but once back I can get another...

Ok we’ll let’s start now. I’m in Fort Drum about 20 minutes from the Canadian border and about 2 hours from Syracuse. Type of beers I like..... good question. I tend to try new beers where ever I go (being in the army that means a move every three years lol). I remember trying the blonde beer...

Yeah I think that is my next step. I’m going to leave the bottled “stuff” as I can’t tell what it is yet. The guys that tried it said it tasted exactly like wine. I had tried it a week before and could not even swallow it. I thought it tasted terrible. I’ll see what the bottled do. I have...

Yeah there was no foam or froth on the surface when I came to bottling it. But I checked the day after I put it all in the fermenter and I had bubbles in the air lock which means it’s doing something right? Very confusing to me as a beginner.

The one of the foam in the bottle neck was the second bottle I opened and had some friends try to tell me what the flavor was so I could look up the issue with it on that link back there in this post. The one of the bottle in front of the MR Beer keg was taken one bottling day. That was the...

Which picture were you talking about? I’ve added a lot of pics to this post over a long period of time?

Hmmmm could be. Without a gravity reading I don’t know. I was away in the field for most of the fermentation period but I did get bubbles the morning after initially putting it in the fermenter. Would that mean it started or that it didn’t do anything.

No. I added the sugar and then filled with the tap. The beer flowed down the sides of the bottle so there was no splashing and I held the funnel at an angle so it didn’t swirl around and splash when it hit the edge of the funnel or just spray straight down to the bottom of the bottle.

No. That was how the post started. I don’t have a bottling bucket. I bottled straight from the tap on the front of the fermenter.

Ok. I didn’t open the fermenter through the whole fermentation process. I mixed everything then put it in the cupboard for 3 weeks. Took it out to bottle and was very careful not to shake or rock the fermenter. I’m just trying to learn so I can avoid wasting this beer again in the future.

How does that happen?

There is a dark cream colored foam like substance lining the mouth of the bottle. Didn’t know if that was a sign of something as well.