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Drank two of these with a Hop Rising Double IPA for comparison, yep, still good.

So just opened another one and we have a nice medium head with some active bubbles. As a side note it is a double IPA kit from Brewers Best. Very drinkable, good but not great, kinda reminds me of Newcastle Ale.

This is a pretty good beer!

I think the yeast quit on me, makes me glad I went with the tablets. I'm assuming if the yeast is caput adding sugar won't kickstart it. Also I'm guessing the difference in readings is because of the mixing that occurred when I moved the beer into the bottling bucket. The siphon that came with...

Bottled today, it was a complete disaster! The hose on the siphon that came with my kit didn't fit on the bottle filler. I cut a 3" piece of tube, forced it onto the bottle filler and put it on the spigot of the bottling bucket. The bottle filler was so slow, after my third bottle and about ten...

Is anyone a member of Brew Brothers of Pikes Peak? I joined and plan to attend a class next Monday night.

It's been fermenting for two weeks now. I was planning to bottle next Sunday, you think ten days instead of seven would be best?

It does resemble a very hoppy vodka

Well it tastes like beer so I went ahead and dry hopped. Also took a gravity reading.., Hmmmm..... Notice the lack of ice [emoji56]

I think if there's no reason to rack to secondary why wouldn't you just use a carboy instead of bucket other than cost. Adding hops through a 3" hole rather than opening the 14" lid of a bucket would give less chance for contamination.

We pitched yeast. This class they only use pre packaged kits for consistency. I'll wait another week then try another bottle.

I think everything went perfect. 2 weeks primary, 1 week secondary and yes we added dextrose melted in sugar and gently stirred before bottling. And 15 days at a consistent 66-70 degrees in brown bottles inside a cardboard box in a closet. That was my first bottle. Perhaps I should gently...

So I took a class and they/I used a Brewers Best double IPA. It's been bottles and stored in a box at about 68 for 2 weeks. Tried my first bottle tonight, nice flavor but completely flat =\ I'm hoping it was just that bottle...

Thanks for ruining all my plans!!!! So recommendations? Dry hop into primary for a week? Should I at least use a bottling bucket or just carefully siphon into bottles from primary?

Thanks for that advise. I dumped everything from my brew pot into primary so I think I'm going to move it to secondary mostly to separate from the trub. I'll dry hop in secondary by putting hops directly on top. At least that's my plan so far. A total of 3 weeks fermenting is enough? I think...