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Bottled mine a couple days ago, added 3 oz of priming sugar and put them in beer bottles, hoping to get them to bottle carb. I used EC-1118 yeast, so should have plenty of alcohol tolerance left. The sample from the bottling bucket was surprisingly good. You were right, the residual sweetness...

Brewed this up in December, racked and added some blackberry juice in January, but been busy so it has just been sitting in the carboy. Need to bottle it up, looking forward to it! Since we added blackberry juice, we are calling this on our Dirty Blonde.

Also, what water are you using and what temp are your fermenting at? Are you controlling fermentation temps?

Same here, I thought "how bad could it be"? Well, I now have a new definition of bad...

Great, thanks for the confirmation. So pre-chilling it is.

I have searched but could not find this answered. After I bottle and wait a few weeks for the beer to carb, should I chill any bottles I plan to gift, knowing they will likely warm up before being chilled again? For example, say I chill some bottles for a couple days then give them to a...

Uh... are you still in line?

Fuzzy, so no backsweetening? My primary fermentation is over so figured I would rack, k-meta, sorbate, and super-kleer in a day or so. But if no backsweetening is needed, then off to bottling after a couple weeks of clearing. I am looking for a hint of Mt. Dew taste but not too sweet of...

I started a 3 gallon batch following goosen's recipe using the Mountain Mist syrup. My local grocery store carries it for $5 per bottle so I picked up two. One for the fermentation and the other to backsweeten with. I figured backsweetening (after a dose of sorbate to kill fermentation) with...

Brewed a batch this on Saturday. I usually use either smack packs or dry yeast, this was the first time using liquid yeast. Since the vial said to just let it warm up for a few hours, shake and pitch, that is what I did. All of my other brews showed signs of fermentation within 12 hours, so...

Agreed, I would not want to lift all that grain without help. My wife is sewing handles into the bag she is making for me and I have an extra bike lift not being used, one of those pulley rigs that are used to hang bikes from the ceiling.

Our first batch turned out great! The only criticism we heard was that it needed a little more carbonation, but that is easy to adjust. The first batch was done at a neighbor's house using his 3 vessel setup. I now have a burner and keggle of my own, so was hoping to do my next batch BIAB...

So for the extract version I use the amounts from the recipe on page 1, but top the fermenter off to 6 gallons with water instead of 5?

I am in!

Yup, lesson learned. Thanks for the rant, I really appreciate it! So many more moving parts to brewing beer than making wine. Good thing I love beer :D I will rack into a glass carboy so I can keep an eye on the hydrometer (I like to leave them floating in the carboy so I can check the SG...

I am an idiot... ours has been at 1.028 for about a week now and instead of reading this post more closely I was going by the Beersmith profile my friend came up with (he was helping me with this brew since it was my first). His report said we should be getting down to 1.017 so yesterday I...

Fantastic, thanks Denny! I am quite excited about brewing this up :ban:

This weekend I am venturing from wine making into my first batch of beer and I chose this delicious looking recipe as my first. Question, I see 11 lbs or 2-row malt listed here and 13 lbs at brew365. They mention that their recipe is for a 6 gallon batch, is that the difference? And the...

Ah, I had not thought about the added sweetness from the lactose. The oats and brewing at 154 instead of 153 sounds easy enough. Thanks! I look forward to being able to compare the two batches when they are done. Thanks!

My brother-in-law and I are going to try this one next weekend. I have made a few wines so I have fermenters and carboys and such, but this will be our first beer. My neighbor is a frequent brewer so he is letting us borrow his mill, keggle, and supervising the boil. We plan on making two 6...