Recent content by stem86

Haha yeah - no spontaneous gushers. I opened a few over the weekend to check carbonation levels and only had one gush but it foamed for a good 5 minutes. I could just be imagining things, but the gusher's cap seemed to be bulging slightly so you might want to keep an eye out for that.

I made the exact same mistake on my second batch ever. I entirely forgot the priming sugar and started the siphon into my bottling bucket, remembered the sugar, and dumped it in fast. I reserved the last bit of beer to sample and realized what I did after I tasted how sweet it was. :smack...

If you were brewing extract, there's no reason to expect that your OG is anything very far outside of the expected OG given on the sheet unless you blatantly omitted ingredients. Specialty grains should only affect the original gravity by a few points. If you are brewing AG, then it's a...