Recent content by pwag

How important is taking the gravity measures? I haven't bought a device. Previously after about two weeks with the cider I'd start pouring and drinking. I planned on letting the beer go until it tapers off carbon dioxide production and just bottling it according to premier's directions. I...

This is the pic I got: http://imgur.com/slhuu Smells malty. I hope it's nothing. It's been slow to take off. This is about a week in.

At one time I bought some three gallon buckets for use around the house from a Tillamook Icecream place. They were thin walled, but were only a dollar a piece.

I couldn't find 32 ounce bottles. Only the smaller ones, which added up in cost pretty quickly. Where are you guys finding that much lemon juice? Also, I tried some of my lemon-brew last night, and it was incredibly sweet (meaning there was plenty of sugar left in it) but still only slowly...

Hello, I've got some light brown "Discs" floating on top of my beer. It's premier malt/hop syrup only and this is my first dance with beer, although I have done cider and hard lemonade before. I saw this post on infections, and decided to crack open my bucket. There's bubbles like I'd expect...

This is hard to read with out the links :(

I have some going (from frozen concentrate) and it seemed to take too long too. I added about a 3lb bag of sugar, poured it into a spare bucket, mixed it and re-carboy'ed it. Took right off, hopefully it does okay. Was going to make SKeeter pee but couldn't find an economical way to get that...