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Thank you both very much. This is my first actual beer as compared to apple cider i did. However, love for beer is what made me start brewing in the first place. Plus the lack of unique beers in my area is very limited unfortunately.

I started an OCTANE IPA from Midwest Supplies. I boiled, cooled, and pitched yeast sunday jan 14th and the OG was 1.064. I have seen no visible signs of fermentation in 4 days. I had anticipated this beer to take longer to ferment, however, 2 days in a row my SG is at 1.012 which is right where...

I've never used carb tablets before. However, I'm currently a week into fermenting an IPA (of sorts) and when it is time to bottle, I want to cut down as much time on carbing in bottles as fast as possible and consume the beer while it is young and hoppy. The instructions on the Coopers Carb...

: ) mmmm choc mint

I too have had problems with film on the oxy clean free. i actually used PBW to remove the film the oxyclean left in my carboy.

i might add some extra hops at boil when i do it tomorrow, i just want a real hop bomb

my noobness is exactly why im coming here for answers, thanks everyone

if the original ibu is 72.5 and i dry hop with one oz of each, what would the approximate ibu be then? or is there a way i can measure it?

i ordered extra of the exact same hops that came with the kit. 2 oz cascade, 1 oz willamette, and 1 oz goldings. Will those be also fine along with the oak chips in dry hopping in that qty?

Im doing my first IPA and I like em hoppy as hail! The kit is an Octane IPA kit from MIDWEST SUPPLIES. Kit includes: 6 lbs. Gold liquid malt extract, 3.3 lbs. Amber LME, 8 oz. Caramel 40L specialty grains, 2 oz. Cascade, 1 oz. Willamette, 1 oz. Goldings pellet hops, oak chips. @ 72.5 IBU's...

I think I will try this one. Big stout fan. I think out of the 5 gallon batch I'll do 3 gallons according to recipe and the other 2 gallons by adding coco and make a mint extract out of fresh mint all boiled down. I got access to alot of it. Then if I dont like the choc/mint combo, I only have...

how would you think some fresh coco and fresh mint would go with this in the secondary?

I got the idea from a micro brewery out in cali. They add un-named vitamins and minerals to beers. The best I could figure from research it must be B6, B12, and Potasium which lead to hang overs accompanied by dehydration. Which conjuncts with the vitamin C you get from certain yeasts and...

Has anyone tried, before bottling, adding vitamin B6, B12, Potasium, or any other herbs, vitamins, or minerals to try a "HEALTH" or "less of a hangover" cider or beer? I know potasium sorbate is a preservative that will eff my cider carbing, but can you just use a disolvable potasium...

some were! thanks

I live in Rock Falls, Illinois. About half way between Rockford and the Quad Cities. Anyone know a good homebrew store in Northern Illinois, Iowa, or Southern Wisconsin I can adventure to so I can see/purchase more useful supplies in person? Please and Thank You!:rockin:

You guys are saving my bacon... THANKS! Whats it like to be a Jedi Master of homebrewing? lol

Plus if you guys want to know I used in this concoction: 4 gallons organic unpreserved, unsweetened apple juice, half gallon motts apple juice from concentrate, disolved 1 one lb bag of brown sugar + 1 pint raw honey + half lb of unsulfated raisins in half gallon of another motts apple juice +...

Sorry about the ignorance of the B word! lol. So if it gets down to 1.000 which I believe it will, will our little yeast friends have enough strength to produce more carb adding the priming sugar? Plus this yeast strain is rated for between 11 and 13 ABV. Will there be too much alcohol for them...

I'm doing my first 5 gallon batch of cider. I transfered to my secondary carboy last night. Original reading before going into the primary was 1.060 and reading after putting it into the secondary was 1.008. Fermentation seems to be actually going faster now that when it was in the primary...