Recent content by TenTentacles

Thanks for all the advice. I think I'll let it sit another few days and then make some decisions then. Thanks again!

I did add yeast nutrient when I pitched the yeast; 1/4 tsp for the 1.5 gallon batch. Should I add more again? Or should I just leave it and take a Plato reading in a month as I'd planned?

I have been brewing beer for about two years now. About a month ago a friend gave me some old books her late husband had lying around. One of them was H. E. Bravery's Home Brewing Without Failures. Not much of the information in them was new to me, but the man's narrative is quite entertaining...

Yes, unfortunately, the room I have available at the moment is the laundry room, and given we're in the middle of fall here the room does suffer temperature variance. It's the same room the last batch was in and that was the first batch I did in that room. I knew the room would create some...

I've had this happen to two consecutive batches of beer and I'm wondering if maybe I've either missed something or maybe my equipment is failing. Here's the situation: In both cases fermentation kicked off within 6 hours and the vent lock was bubbling away at a rate of one to two bubbles per...

Thanks for the advice. Working on the assumption that -extra- ingredients would be included in the kit, I'm going to go ahead and use the entire 8oz of Malto-Dextrin in the boil. We'll see what happens. :D

On the advice of the owner of my local brewer's supply store, I'm starting my very first batch using one of Crosby and Baker's True Brew kits. I chose the porter kit. The kit comes with 8oz of molto-dextrin that are supposed to go in to the boil. On the package of molto-dextrin it says "Usage...