Recent content by tjharlow

I'm a new brewer also but it seems like to me that maybe you fermented too hot. The fact that it was finished fermenting so quickly makes me think that maybe the fermentation temperature was too high which the yeast love. In fact, at high fermentation temperatures the yeast are hyper active...

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I think I read somewhere not to soak stainless steel for more than 20 minutes in PBW

Ya, I would say 10~ is about right. I don't know the exact cost off the top of my head. But what I was saying is that, yes - the cost of the kit alone comes out to about $4 a bottle but when you add the cost of the equipment, supplies etc... it's probably not much savings. But we brew (or I do...

I'm doing the Winexpert Moscato for my wife right now. Smells delicious coming out of the fermenter. It's getting moved to a secondary tomorrow. Someone said Winexpert was "cheap"..... I spent 100$ for this kit. That is $4.00 a bottle not counting supplies (bottles, corks, etc...). After...

Haha. On a side note. I just transferred this batch into secondary for dry hopping and I tasted the hydrometer sample. It's a Black IPA: 12 lbs. American 2-row 1 lbs. Crystal 20L 1 lbs. Midnight Wheat .5 lbs. Belgian Debittered Black .5 lbs. Special Roast 1oz. Amarillo @60min 1oz. Cascade...

Ok, so next brew I won't put quite full volume in for my BIAB. I'll keep a gallon or two out and use for a sparge on the grains in the bag to get boil volume?

Wow.... I just walked into my basement and I smelled a slight fruity aroma. I went to my airlock and it's bubbling away on day 3. Brilliant nose coming out of the airlock. In reference to stopping fermentation early to stop it from becoming too dry - the kit comes with a 2nd pack of juice to...

Oh? I thought with BIAB your supposed to add the mashout step to gain efficiency?

I just put this in Primary tonight. Tasted the juice from the hydrometer (delicious). Has anyone done this kit yet? I'm into beer myself but my wife loves the Barefoot Moscato so I'm hoping this will come out nice for her. Tj

Very curious on how this turned out as well. The EXACT same thing happened to me. I do All Grain BIAB as well. The mash went perfectly. It was my first time using new insulation material for the pot and I only lost about 1.5 degrees over the hour. Then I put it back on the burner to raise...

Used a digital thermometer for BIAB Mash of 60mins at 152. Setup worked great, only lost 1.5 degrees over the hour. Was using a round analog thermometer to bring pot up to 168 for Mash Out and noticed that thermometer wasn't going past 160. Double checked with digital and it was 195+ Rest of...

I live in Farmingville (Suffolk). I just did my first all grain so I won't know how it turned out for a while but I did test my mash Ph and it was right where it should be - around 5.4 I did add Burton Water Salts after viewing the local water profile (Selden) it seemed to be low in a few...

I've always wanted to homebrew but was always intimidated. Finally my cousin talked me into doing an extract with specialty grains. I didn't want anything too complex for my first beer so we did an English Pale Ale. It came out pretty great (I'm biased). Anyway. I just ordered a 44...