Recent content by Paolo

It was indeed one Grolsch bottle that just exploded in the middle of the night, a few hours ago. That really gives me the creeps, I am not going further until I have found out what's gone wrong and how I can be entirely sure that ain't happening again. The beer was a wheat ale, bottled already...

Well, heading your tip I bottled it, and it seems to taste good, very alcoholic though! FG was low, about 1012. Why it was still bubbling away, that remains a mystery. I hope no bottle will explode...

Hi! I am quite new to brewing, and I have a problem with my fourth batch, a hoppy white, is strange: after 3 days strong bubbling, the airlock steadily bubbles (about 1 or 2 times a min) 20 more days! I cannot read an account of such long bubbling anywhere. The problem is I didn't measure the...

Thanks to all for the very fast replies! I should have posted the recipe before, here it is: 9 liters 2300 g pale ale malt 150 g cara crystal malt 100 g flaked barley Mashing for 1 h at about 150 F 15 g nugget at boil (60 min tot) 10 g fuggles at 15 min (45 tot) 10 g fuggles at 30 min (30 tot)...

Hi there, I have finally gotten hands on brewing, after years of hesitating. Well, after two moderately satisfactorily batches, I already messed up, my third batch is undrinkable. So I wanted to see if anyone has a clue what I did wrong. It's an IPA, fermentables and hops amounts are quite...