Recent content by Rokie

I have some Fat Tire in the Ice Box. The problem is I'm running low on the Home Brew. After HB anything else is like drinking pond water.

I think you were being sarcastic when you said dig a cave, but it got me thinking. A friend of mine has a place in New Mexico with a spring cooled basement. Stays a constant 58 deg year round. Sounds to cold to me and could only get up there every other weekend to work the beer, but will this...

I live in a cabin in Northern Arizona at 7000 ft without air-condition (not needed). We have a wide temperature range outside in the summer from the high 40s at night and it can reach 90 for a short time in the afternoon. I am going to setup a recording thermometer today to see how stable the...

That looks cool. I'm going to get a glass carboy for the next batch.

Today is bottling day and I had a question. I am using plastic buckets for my primary and bottling bucket. The bottling bucket has a “Bottling Spigot” in it. After washing and sanitizing everything this morning I starting wondering what is the purpose of a bottling bucket. I know it facilitates...

I heard at the LHBS that honey fermented in the beer will give a wicked hangover. They have been wrong about almost everything else so I was wondering.

Wife has the little dispencer full of the blue rinse stuff. I don't see anyway to turn that off. That can't be good the bottles.

Gee I don’t want to do that long. I think the best place to store beer is behind my tongue and that is only for a short while. I was just interested in how long I can wait to be sure the fermenting over before I screw somthing up. I go out of town on Sunday I will bottle on Saturday.

Is there a time limit that it can stay in the primary? How long to condition in the bottle?

My Honey Wheat in the primary has leveled off with a S.G. @ 1.006 and a bubble every now and then without regularity. I do not have a secondary so I am trying to decide if I should bottle or let it set in the primary. For how long? any advice? Havn’t tasted it yet but man it smells good!

Thanks, it is taking longer than the first batch so I was worried. I do not have a secondary so I think I will just let it set for another week.

A newbe here and my first post. Have my second batch of brew in the fermenter. Trying a Honey Wheat this time with liquid yeast and added 4 oz lactose in the last 5 minuets of the boil. My questions are if the lactose is non-fermenting how will it affect the specific gravity and my potential...