Recent content by StraightCs

Then maybe I'm doing something right :) . My friends who home brew get minimal carbonation along with big bubbles. I was expecting the same, instead I got not only the creamy foam, but constant bubbling in the glass (like champagne). My wife isn't fond of it, but I like the snap all the extra...

My small batches are turning out well. They taste the way they're supposed to taste lately. One funny characteristic of all of them (I'm on my eighth, now) is that the suds are more like a thick, creamy foam and it takes a long time for the head to settle. And this happens regardless if I'm...

Just a follow up: I replaced the plastic cap with a rubber stopper and airlock, and took a hard look at the cap...there was a hairline crack, barely visible, along the diameter. Mystery solved. Onward.

The room was 72 degrees. I am thinking it is a leak.

I'm making one gallon batches. After a few missteps, I've been pretty successful for the most part, but something odd happened for my latest IPA. I decided to use SafAle S-04 and pitched 3 grams of the yeast on Sunday afternoon. No bubbling on Monday morning, no worries. I came home Monday...

I'm pitching 2g of Safeale5, my wort is about 70 degrees when I pitch. I do not use a yeast starter. I do not know the date as I've thrown out the packet (not enough left for another batch). The fermentation is under 76 degrees. I used yeast measured from a kit for the Gose, from Brooklyn Brew...

Yes, I've seen the water report. I do know that they use a lot of chlorine in the water here. The following chemicals are found in higher-than-average (but not unsafe) amounts the village's water: Bromodichloromethane Chlorate Chloroform Chromium (hexavalent) Dibromochloromethane...

Hi, I'm still pretty new at this and have done four 1-gallon batches now. I don't want to graduate to 3- and 5-gallon BIAB batches until I start nailing my recipes. All seems well across my four batches (goes, IPA, Black IPA, NEIPA) except one thing, an off smell and flavor I haven't seen...

We have highly chlorinated water in my town (not the best local water supply) and I'd say, yes, medicinal (my wife says it smells like pine cleaner), but it's nothing like the grapefruit smell. I like very hoppy, citrus-y ales, but this smells REAL strong of grapefruit. These are the hops I...

I'm making a 1 gallon APA batch from a recipe shared among friends. It calls for A LOT of hops (I don't have the recipe with me). After the boil, I used a strainer to get out much of the solids, most of which were hops, I presume. The fermentation process started fine for the first four days...

You'll have to forgive me, but I don't have a hydrometer. I started with a kit from Brooklyn Home Brew that includes a carboy (I have since bought another), stopper, airlock, tube and racking cane. I had thought that I would buy a hydrometer after I graduated to bigger batches and assumed that...

I'm brewing my second 1-gallon batch. It's an American IPA, and I'm carefully following a recipe recommended to me by other home brewers. I'm using SafAle US-05 Dry Ale Yeast and used 2 grams. Things started to go well at first, and it was happily bubbling away in the blow-off tube for the first...