Recent content by scottishviking99

I shook the starter and I'm not sure which. It's a lot darker than the unfinished one.

I have not taken any gravity readings. My hydrometer fell and broke and I haven't replaced it yet

Fermentation appears to still be active just very slow. There's sediment at bottom but its still very cloudy. This will be my 5th batch to make but never had this happen

I don't remember what yeast I used but I made 6 gallons of an amber beer. After boiling together I split into two 3 gallon carboys. Split the yeast starter between them. Tried my best to make sure equal amounts went into both. One carboy finished primary around 3 Weeks and bottled around a month...

Well after leaving it to age for a while, the beer seems to have leveled out and tasted great. Very similar to a Coors light. No weird tastes anymore just plain ol beer.

I understand. My nephew caught a bunch of tiny catfish by hand in a creek and wanted to keep them. I went to get some food and wound up buying a bunch of stuff and even bought an Oscar to put in with them didn't have a clue about oscars. A few days later it was the only one left but he had a...

Now could I return all the beer to a bucket and try to pitch more yeast? Would that do any good?

I would like to thank everyone for their responses and advice. I am very new to brewing and this forum. I was surprised with everyone offering up help so quickly and hopefully one day I can return the favor once I gain experience.

I just posted about my gear. I will be brewing from now on in glass carboys. After reading up a little, I think the mr beer kits are a joke. Bug there wasn't any money lost on them.

I have acquired better brew gear since that first batch. I have two glass carboys and two 6gallon bottling buckets. Not to mention auto siphon, hydrometer, airlocks, a 5 gallon brew kettle, bottle capper and some other things as well. Well pretty much a starter kit like the ones northern brewer...

I shall make it so. He is actually coming for a visit this weekend.

I fermented at room temp. Until fermentation was not present. No odd smells to speak of and taste wise like I said previously just sour sugar flavor with a bitter after taste. I used the yeast that came with the kit but I'm not sure exactly what it was. And I put the priming sugar in the...

I actually have water I got from a creek that has been tested by my chemist brother and no bad stuff in it. It's clean sand free and tastes great.

Glad to know I'm not the only one that had this problem. Thanks for the quick responses. They don't have a bandwidth flavor. My friend says they taste just like a Budweiser. Perhaps you ate correct in the possibility of one dimensional beer. Although I did have a few bombs with the first batch...

My next batch is the Northern Brewer WH honey ale. This one actually cost me money and I would like to not screw this one.