Recent content by S2X01

Cool! I'll have to take a sample in the morning!!

It was a kit.....but to raise the abv, the owner of my brew store had me add more DME. So the kits instruction sheet would be off. I ended up with an OG of 1.062

Okay cool. I guess I need to do some searching on what my FG needs to be.

Well.......its done bubbling for all I can tell.

I'll add that it was in the primary for only a week....and as I read more and more about stouts, it seems that most leave them in primary for around 3 weeks.

So I finally got my cream stout onto my secondary. The main reason for the secondary comes from sagely advice from buddies who home brew. I know....this is a heavily debated step. But- it's already in there so no need to bring that up. I cold brewed some coffee and poured it into the...

I'm considering it as well! I think I may want to do a porter, however. As a baby-brewer still..... can anyone make me some recipe reccomendations to brew an extract banana porter?

My primary is a 6 gallon plastic bucket fermenter.....currently holding a cream stout.

Cool. thanks! I'm gonna look up this blow off tube business now!

Upon returning from snowboarding today...the water in my air lock had turned brown and the lid seemed as though it had been spewing foam all day. Is this normal?

Yeah...I'm probably gonna transfer to a carboy in a week....and while it's in secondary for another week....I might have to fill my primary back up! Im gonna need a garage fridge eventually :D

Well..... I officially have my first batch in the fermenter!! Bubbling away like crazy this morning.....pitched my yeast around 5 last night. Now the waiting part :mad: Almost a month just to see if it's even any good? Damn. This waiting thing is gonna take some getting used to. I...

Just thought I'd say hey. I'm Stu. A resident of the metro Denver area. Just got a legitimate brew kit for christmas. Gonna poke around here for a while and learn all I can.... I'm sure I'll be bugging you guys with questions in no time! :D