Recent content by splatteralus

It was in the primary for 5 days. Sounds like I am OK, I will chill out :O

I have waited 4 days and there is still absolutely NO activity in the secondary. Should I be worried? There was a lot of activity before we moved over.

hehe only 6 days. I put 5 gallons worth of priming sugar into 3'ish gallons of beer so I wanted to open one to make sure it wasn't already ready to explode or somthing.

I did not clean the tub before hand as I had no intention of the water getting into the wort haha I racked it over to the secondary today and it smelled fine although I didn't taste it. I tried some of my first batch too. It smells like beer, looks like beer, but has a very sharp kind of...

So I bottled my first batch, tried tasting it... incredibly strong, kind of acidic. It only made about 30 bottles so I lost a lot of liquid somewhere! Anyways, I quickly brew up my 2nd batch, a brown ale. Everything is going according to plan. Since I don't have a wort chiller we have to...

I wanted to add also that I don't have very much volume in the secondary, should I have filled it to the curve with boiled water? I'm not sure why my volume is so low, I boiled 5 gallons.

Thanks for the advice! I just racked over to my secondary glass carboy. A few questions and concerns now: The beer looks kind of merky and super dark, is this normal at this point? Should I have tried to move any of the froathy yeast over to the secondary? Now I am left with just liquid...

Hi this is my first post here, looks like a great place. I brewed my first batch two days ago. Bellingham Red Ale: 8lbs Light Extract 1lb Crystal 135l Malt 8 oz Dextrin Malt 1 oz Magnum hops and 2 oz Yakima Kent Goldings: 1 oz Magnum @ 60 Minutes 1 oz YK @ 1 Min 1 0z YK @ 0...