My brother had the same problem with his Brewers Best Red Ale. It was sitting in the basement bottled @65 and not carbing though it would slightly hiss upon opening. We brought it upstairs where it's 71 F and viola! Houston, we got head. This was 3 days @ 71.
Hey! you can't ferment next to that stuffed animal...It will give the beer a gamey taste..Haha
That's one heck of a blow off tube! What's your occupation, fireman?
You got superb equipment for a first time brewer or for anybody for that matter. Have fun.
It'll be good, I mean it's beer man, but I'll never know what it's supposed to taste like:). Table sugar gets eaten by the yeast a bit slower so I'll let it stew in the carboy for a few more days than recommended by the always trustworthy BB single sheet instructions(why do I tamper?). I'm a...
Holy Cow dude!:drunk: You're quite the tinkerer. I'm brewing the exact same beer right now,only I added 4 cups of brown sugar,2 cups of white sugar and half a cup of honey. My OG was 90 and it's bubbling like crazy 15 hours into it with only one packet of windsor yeast. It smells like a...
Newbie here just checking out the sight. I've only brewed from extract kits...Namely Brewers Best kits:Scottish Ale, American Amber, Kolsch, Red Ale, English pale Ale and one miserable batch of hard cider:p