Recent content by shaughnessy

I followed my recipe to the t. Made it 5 or 6 times now. For some reason this time my red ale tastes like the yeast has fermented all the ferment able sugars. Usual fg for tis beer is 1.010. this time its 1.000. There is literally no sweet to this beer. Curious if there is quick fix (ie. adding...

Rewind my first double ipa. Fermentation was crazy. Lasted about 10 days. Now that I have moved it to the secondary for dry hopping there appears to be this Weird droopy white mucus stuff floating on top. It does sink to the bottom though. The beer still tastes fantastic but I'm worried about...

Noob question I know. I decided to make an ipa for my first beer. After 10 days in primary I decided to dry hop in secondary. It was really cloudy for a while, now it's more of just a dark Carmel color with a huge layer of sediment on the bottom of carboy. It's been in secondary for 11 days. The...

I Am brewing my first batch of beer in a 5 gallon bucket with the airlock on top. I am curious if I am allowed to open the container to monitor the fermentation process since I obviously can not see through the plastic.