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Well here are the bottles, 48 cleaned and drying bottles. Soaked batches of 8 at a time in oxy clean solution to remove the labels and clean the insides with a brush. Then before i bottled i used a solution of one step i got with my kit to just wet the inside to make sure there wasn't...

ok that's what i figured, but i see some people saying things like "take your og, and subtract your fg, then do some mathematical magic, and you'll get alcohol content." And that just doesn't seem like sound science to me.

honest question about OG, FG... in a sugar water mixture, your reference is 1 because water is 1. however, when you mix water and ethanol, the density decreases slightly, and thus the reference(if all sugar is gone) would be less than 1. So isn't it possible, if you're getting a 1.005 reading...

Ah yes the Blow off tube. Here it is in full use, although i doubt i still need it. Notice the only things in my fridge are pickles, alcohol, and chili.

no ma'am, I would never say that to my mother it was merely a paraphrase of what the basics of our conversation resulted in. Alas she was right, and i do need something to take up my time, now i just need to figure out what that might be.

ya i didn't think it would be that vigorous of a fermentation in the first 24 hours. The OG was only 1.055, but maybe having pitched it at 74F was the reason it went hog wild. I know the final final product gets drunkdid, but The final product for this day( and the next 2-3 weeks is a...

After a fine weekend with the parents, my mother kindly tells me "Wisski, you are boring, you need a hobby. Why don't you take up knitting?" to which I responded "Mother, gfy" She did have a point and it led me to consider, maybe just maybe... I needed something new to consume my free...

I wish i had seen this thread two days ago. I bought the deluxe starter kit from Northern Brewer, that came with a 5 gal and a 6 gal carboy. yesterday I brewed my first IPA(5 gallon batch: so i obviously put it in the 5 gallon carboy), and this morning I have Krausen everywhere in my kitchen...

I have some homemade Maple Syrup that we made this past spring. And I'm about to start a pumpkin ale, I've read some places these might compliment each other. So my question is, should I bottle my beer with the Maple Syrup, or should i add it to the brew. I'm thinking in order to get any...