Recent content by wilk916

Turned out great. My fermentation environment (old wine fridge) runs a little cool at around 62F, so I gave it a few extra weeks in the primary. Bottled it about two weeks ago and FG was spot on. Cracked open the first one tonight and it went down fast. Think I'll have another. ;-) Thanks...

FYI. Picked up the LME today and did the following: 1. Pulled 0.5 gallons of wort from the fermenter and heat it in a sterile pot with the LME to about 110degrees. 2. Poured the mixture back into the wort and aerated it. I kept the wort cool after pitching the yeast (62deg) last night so...

About my 6th brew. 1st with DME and 1st that called for both. In retrospect I should have realized there wasn't enough extract in the mix but... Two gallon boil. Topped off to 5.5 gallons. Thanks for the tips. I'll get the lme in today and see what happens.

So I brewed up a West Coast Red Ale extract kit today, or at least i thought i did. The recipe called for lme (7lbs) and dme (1lb). Trying to fit brewing into an already busy weekend i didn't review the ingredients list and did realize the lhbs employee sent me home without the lme. Brewed the...