Recent content by Seabeevet35

I have made 3 different brews of the last year and after putting them on the keg they all smell bad. Taste is fine. But the smell is bad. Not overpoweringly awful just does not smell like a good beer. Only similarity to them is they are all light beers. One was an extract version of Blue...

No not a typo. It is a beer that truly needs some time to mellow. But when I bottled after the 6 month secondary. There was a significant aroma. Not so much just 3 weeks later in the bottle Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I brewed a batch of a pale ale type beer about 7 months ago. When I bottled it 5 weeks ago and for the first couple of weeks the smell was an AMAZING grapefruit/citrus smell. Not a lot of that flavor but the smell was just fantastic. Now after a month in the bottles it is all but gone. Is...

I wouldn't describe the taste as plasticky. But just a real medicine like bitterness. I had pulled a half gallon growler worth of beer out and it all had the same taste. I sterilized everything again and put in my new batch. So far it's ok. Thanks all for the help and ideas. I guess it may have...

everything was bought new except the freezer. All lines and taps were new. I just cleaned everything very thoroughly and found zero evidence of contamination. At least that I could see. Everything worked fine but the been just totally went to hell

Quick question. I am new to kegging and just finished my first keg. I have a keezer set up with temp on kegs regulated at 38 deg f. I was getting down to the last gallon on a 5 gal corny keg. I had noticed it about a week before. When the beer began to warm it took on a rather astringent...

First time I used that yeast my wit was still slowly bubbling at 3 weeks. It's just a very slow yeast. Wit turn out fantastic and what my friends didn't steal, they drank. I've since used it once more with the same results. Give it about 3 weeks and swish the fermenter every few days

Thank you all for the help. I repitched some safale02 and it worked fine. Beer actually turned down really good. Final gravity was 1.008. Yes Midfielder it was a typo. It was actually WLP002. I used the WLP400 on a hefe I had brewed that afternoon and had it on the mind.

LHBS stores it in a fridge as did I. Date on the tube said best if used by Jan 2014. I'll ck on it in the morning and update. Thank you all so far.

Yes I am using a hydrometer and it reads 1.000 in pure RO water.

I did my first AG brewing on Sunday the 24th. I used RO water for the boil. I was trying for a Moose Drool clone. I have a 50qt mash tun and was going for a 5 gal batch. I brought the water to 170 and poured into the Mashtun then poured in the grains and thoroughly stired. I bought a new...

Kit came with wyeast 3944. The drink you describe is not this. I think Midwest just picked the name but not the style. It gets great reviews. It came w 2lbs of honey. Ill just swish the bucket every few days to keep things going. Hopefully it will all work out great. If not. Well I tried. As...

Thank you all. Doc, idk. As I was studying what I wanted to try next this one came up. Midwest states 2 months till ready, however most of the reviews said let secondary for 2-3 months so I planned on it being ready for New Years. As far as a full clone, I honestly have never had an original so...

Anybody?

Sunday I made the Grand Cru kit from Midwest. Followed the directions but my OG came out at 1.075. The kit only came w one yeast smack pack. I know I needle at least two but the LHBS wasn't open and the kit was already made so I pitched and ordered some more. Question is my second pack will be...