Recent content by sbharrison

I respect your opinion but my experience is exactly as I've said. I usually leave my beer 2 to 3 weeks total time before filtering and kegging, leaving the beer on the yeast cake that long definetly leaves an odd flavor in the beer.

Yes my experience time and time again is if you do not remove the beer from the yeast early on it gives it strange and undesirable flavors, which is why I rack and like I said always produces a far better product.

Been brewing all grain 6 years now at the rate of a few 7 gal batches per month and I've experimented using a secondary and not using a secondary and hands down without a doubt using a secondary will give you a far better product with a cleaner taste and a cleaner looking beer. I've never had a...

It is honestly very unlikely it is infected unless you spit and pooped into it and even still it likely is not infected. I started with Cooper kits about 6 years ago and now enjoy brewing all grain and I can say to this day I've done so many questionable things and especially at the beginning...

I have found bottle conditioning must at a minimum be 3 weeks for best results, but had beers many months old and they are out of this world. I had a chocolate milk stout and at 2 weeks in the bottle it tasted very bitter and aweful, but 2 months later I could not believe it was the same beer...

Had a few cases of that brewed with a pound of light chocolate malt and aged for 3 months, was just amazing, even the Budweiser drinking buddy's liked it

.......as in using 6 gal as the primary

That's exactly what I do

I always now Use 2 cans of Briess LME at 3.3 lbs per can per 5 gallon batch I find it to gives great results. In my mind I like to think the liquid is better than the dry powder extract for brewing but perhaps some may argue that.

Good to know

......either way that IPA is currently in a secondary carboy and looks quite clear and nice, I still think it's going to taste fine

I have done about a dozen batches and this is the first time this has ever happened, I also used a Brew House kit that I bought out of my area and thought I would try for fun, I usually do coopers cans, although the Brew House kit came with coopers yeast so yeast wise it was nothing out of the...

Well I made an ipa 2 weeks ago and it by far was the most violent brew I have ever made, with in about a day it was foaming up through the lid and pouring onto the floor, I also notice that although the ambient temperature was 22 Celsius the temperature inside the bucket rose to about 27 Celsius...

I brewed a coopers canadian can, used all malt and filled to 19L than dry hopped with 1oz crystal hops, bottle carbonated and it turned out great with a citrus taste to it, my non homebrew drinking friends liked it a lot, great head retention too, frothy the entire way down the...

Hmm interesting, perhaps than I may lay down a bonus batch and leave it in the primary the time I am gone and let it age in there.