Recent content by Stan341

I haven't, but going over cheesefood's vanilla caramal cream ale, he used 4 ounces in the secondary AND 4 ounces at bottling. I'm banking on the flavor being milder by putting it in the primary. I wasn't really looking for a defining flavor, but I wanted it to show up. If it turns out too...

Very normal. Be patient with it. When we started with our first kits the general instructions with them never steered us wrong. Welcome to our addiction...err I mean hobby. Yea hobby.

I had the same issue...I put mine back in the fridge and used it 2 weeks later without a starter and it went crazy in about 8 hours. Id say if it didn't get too hot it will be fine.

Just to update....I realized I had no dme laying around, so I just threw caution to the wind and threw the yeast and 2 ounces of pure vanilla extract into my cream ale. 8 hours later im trading an airlock for a blowoff tube. Thanks for the advice guys.

Activator pack. For a starter, would I just boil a little DME?

So a buddy of mine and myself had a brew day scheduled 2 weeks ago this Saturday, but a few bad brats the night before kept me from traveling to his place about 20 miles away, and work has prevented us from brewing until this Saturday. The problem is, in anticipation of brewing he took out the...