Recent content by sanfordrjones

Thanks again for the replies. The mystery has been solved. I didn't have enough sanitized water in the airlock, and the air was going around the waterline instead of straight up to cause bubbles. I added more to both airlocks, and both are bubbling now.

Thanks for the reply. They're both glass carboys in excellent condition with correctly sized stoppers in great condition with properly inserted airlocks. I've never had any issues with air escaping using the same equipment, so I think it would be highly unlikely to be happening on both...

I brewed a beer on Sunday and had about 8 gallons of wort. The pump on my chiller died when the wort was at 90 degrees, so I transferred it to 5-gallon glass carboys (5 gallons in one, 3 in the other), capped them and put them in a water bath, and waited a couple of hours until the temp was...

I brewed an AB clone last year, and it took about 3 weeks in the keg for it start tasting like AB. Prior to that, it had a definite alcohol taste... it was very harsh/ astringent. My advice would be to give it a couple of weeks and see how it shapes up.