Recent content by uglykidneil

Hello, so I was planning on brewing a bourbon barrel porter this weekend that called for 1oz of US Goldings hops (plus 1oz of Chinook which I have). I was certain I had some on hand but just realized I do not. Any experts out there have thoughts on that particular hop? A substitution? I do...

The Hefeweizen was an extract. The Amber was a biab recipe that I found on brewers friend and modified slightly.

Possible it’s a lingering of heff still in there. I did clean the lines but I could have probably pushed another gallon or two through to be thorough. I can look back at the heff recipe but I don’t think it was the same yeast.

Thanks. Keg was bought used but came clean then I cleaned and sanitized myself (before each use) with PBW and Star San. I also cleaned the lines prior to adding the Amber. But if anything I could see that they may have needed a little more sanitizer ran through them. I did not taste samples...

I recently started kegging some of my beers. I’ve now kegged 2 of my batches. I have a question about taste. The first batch was a Hefeweizen, the second batch which I just finished is an Amber Ale. So obviously 2 very different styles. Oddly enough I feel like they have tasted way too...

Yes I bought the fizz drops from northern brewer. They were designed for 12 oz bottles.

Ok so here were my readings. Original gravity 1.030 Final gravity 1.008 I thought those were unusual readings and I chalked it up to poor efficiency. This was also my first time using fizz drops. I normally use priming sugar and haven’t had any problems. Also not sure if it is relevant but...

I did. My original gravity was 1.030. I wrote down final gravity and can’t find it. I do know my readings weren’t what I wanted them to be. I assumed I had poor efficiency. This was my first all grain batch using biab. If I recall correctly my abv ended up only being around 2.8%.

I tried brewing a homemade knock-off recipe of a beer from a local brewery a couple months ago. I’m not in love with the outcome so I’ve slowly been chipping away at the 5 gallons. I bottled all of the beer, and the first 1/3 or so of the bottles were fine. Now they’re all bombs. As soon as I...

I’ll go ahead and purge the keg. But yes I had everything open all the way.

Having an issue with C02 pressure on my kegerator. This was my first time using it. When I initially hooked my C02 up I was unable to turn the psi down after force carbonation (turning the pressure screw all the open or closed wouldn’t budge the pressure) I had to turn down the pressure using...