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Thanks for the insight. So I can leave my co2 on at serving PSI all the time? That won't eventually start to carbonate the beer at that PSI? Or that won't happen because it's only in the headspace?

I kegged beer for the first time last week. It seems like I'm using too much C02. A few questions - I have a 5 lb tank. It started out filled to 800 PSI. Is that full? How high should it be? Second, I forced carbed my first beer. It was an English Bitter that I'd had in the fridge for a...

Simpsons Special Roast was printed on the bag. It's just a roasted barley: http://www.northernbrewer.com/default/simpsons-roasted-barley-2.html I gave it a gentle swirl three days ago and we were off and running again. It's been burping along. I'll give it another week.

Right. I spent some time reading the wiki and figured out the math. Made sense. Thanks for responding.

Yeah. I unfortunately ordered my hydrometer from Northern Brewer a few days after pitching the wort. No biggie. I think I've created a red-headed step child of the English bitter family. Using the calculator recommended above, I've got a a FG of 1.006. Definitely needs another week at...

I have a hydrometer but am unable to calculate final gravity due to my brew being a recipe that I pulled out of my a**. Hydrometer reads 1.020. Which seems too high. Giving it a swirl to see if I can get the yeasty beasties to kick start. Thanks ISU brew. I dry hopped an ounce of cascade...

I'm the cheapskate. I haven't thrown down $25 yet for Beersmith. I pitched a brew two weeks ago and was going to check final gravity, and then i realized hells bells, I made this brew up. How the deuce would I know what the final gravity is supposed to be? Ingredients below. Can...

hahahah. joan rivers beer. wtf?

haha. Toby Keith's Boot..... it's the American way! Revolutionary might be fitting. I'll have to see if it tastes like war.... (no, i don't know what that means either)

Lols. Alzheimers Ale. I like that. In response to Soperbrew and your comment about low IBU's - dry hopping is a good idea. I've got an ounce of Cascade left (pellets). I'll chuck an ounce in and try your fishing line idea to get it back out. That's a good idea. Last time I dry hopped I had...

Sweet. I'll name it "Patriot" brew

I got a little "creative" yesterday with an extract brew. I went to the nearest LHBS (Winston-Salem, about 30 minutes) and picked up the ingredients for an English Bitter Ale, thinking i had Fuggle and Golding hops in the freezer. Got home, and nope. Cascade, Willamette, Amarillo and...

Wait, how do you blow your own glass carboy? Can I put a little ship inside mine so everyone will ask how it got there? :-) Or wait... even better, can i blow it into the shape of a beer bottle? Because that would be awesome..

Nice. Good to know. Might not have made such lousy beer after all. :-) Now I've just gotta try to find a refrigerator I can run at 50 degrees...

Thanks for the info! I'll try this recipe out next time. Glad to know there is a difference between rolled and flaked, my LHBS said they don't carry oatmeal because it's cheaper and exactly the same if you just buy rolled oats in the grocery store. Apparently they were mistaken. I've noticed...

Recipe is as follows: 1.2 lbs oatmeal 5 lbs Dark Malt Extract 2 lbs Dark Liquid Extract 1 lb Roasted Barley 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 tsp gypsum 2 oz Norther Brewer Bittering Hops 1 oz Willamette Aromatic Hops and of course yeast and corn sugar for priming....

Hm. Getting a few mixed messages here but it seems like in general, I haven't really messed anything up....

Still, watery is weird. 8.5 pounds of malt is a lot of extract. I just brewed a pale ale with 5.5 pounds of DME and a pound of crystal malt and while it's certainly lighter than my stouts, it's far from watery. And even if you totally spaced it and didn't add any hops at all, it still wouldn't...

Brewed up a batch of oatmeal stout from extract a month ago, not so good.... Question is: Am I adding the oatmeal correctly? Did I do anything else wrong? My process: I was told that rolled and flaked are exactly the same thing. So I used a pound and a half of rolled oats after steeping...

Nice Edcculus, where are you at now? My wife and I live on James Island. We moved here from Oregon a few years ago. The weather is great, but the job market is terrible. :-) But still, no place like the lowcountry, eh?