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Update, I took a FG reading today when kegging the Old castle Batch 1.012. This was fermented with Nottinghamn yeast. I am hoping the yeast smell that is kickin this off for me, tastes like beer but has a funk smell. I dry hopped it with 1/2oz of cascade in the keg hoping to fix that anyone...

1913+3= 1916

I filled my party pig the other day with primed beer from the bottling bucket after I added the priming sugar. I have a question about it since it is my first use and no directions came with it. I got it new in box with some stuff I bought off craigs list. I wanted to know if normal amount...

Look up midwest supplies, they have a DVD that they give free with order. it helps, also check out Bobby_M's videos on youtube I suggest getting a upgraded kit with a secondary, it will make a better beer and plus you dont want the primary tied up for that long! I started out with the basic...

I have been pondering how exactly you are susposed to take a gravity reading. it is susposed to be at 60*F correct? well if I take a reading and it says 1.014 at 70* and my water is 1.000 at 70*, the water at 60* is 0.098. does this mean that I am susposed to compensate for the temperature...

I learned alot being a new brewer from your youtube videos, I think it would of been nice to see the aeration test you did before my first batch. possibly work aeration in when you are talking about the yeasts and bring a TV or laptop to play the video or some of the other good ones you made...

I am pretty new to brewing but here is my thought, if you tip it with a wedge before hand you are letting more trub settle to the point too. I usally tip mine seconds before needed and having good luck with that

I am not sure if it is my error, but I have the same taste in the 2 batches that I have done also. I will be bottling my 3rd soon and my 4th is in primary. The first was corona and does not taste much like corona, way too hoppy. my second is the pikes IPA and that tates sinilar to the first one...

That is exactly what I am doing, well having the beer anyways! I found a few of my corona bottles are not capped all the way with the Pikes IPA that I bottled the other day, so I have a good excuse to drink them early in the day. I wish I had something to compare the smell to and Hoping that...

can anyone answer if Nottingham yeast has a diffrent smell then a muntons dry yeast does? I am fermenting a New Castle clone and I smelled the airlock and it has a diffrent smell then the previous batches have. It don't much smell like beer, and yet is hard to describe. Not sour or sweet, and...

thanks brad for being so helpful

what are some of the other factors that you seen? Also how did you pitch the extra yeast? I did pitch some more muntons into 2 of the batches with out re-hydrating it, and it did nothing much. few bubbles here and there but it did not lower my FG at all.

I have been talking to a candian buddy about this too that has brewed for years and thinks that the yeast is to blame also, myself I am not sure what to think. it would be nice if someone could chime in that had similar problems to what I am having........

Thanks for the reply :) I do have that book :)

Don't mind my noob question, but what exact kit are you talking about? I am not familiar with all the acryonyms. is it here? http://www.austinhomebrew.com I love blue moon but dont like the hoegarden that is similar to it. also what is rdwhab or what ever the others are?

^ I just brewed a Old Castle clone and pictched a White labs WLP005 and it was dead from the start. Yesterday I pitched a Nottingham 11g packet. I guess this will let me know if I was under pitching, since I was using the muntons 5g packet before.

I am a new brewer, 4 batches so far and in need of some advice. I brewed 3 extract kits so far from Midwest: corona clone, Pikes IPA, Irish Red. All of the kits started out with SG right to what the kit said they would be. I have 2 hydrometers and checked FG's with both and they are the same...

are those Left hand thread? I assume that a regular propane head would not fit it, what are some options to getting a cheap head for the bottles?