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Definitely didn't read the wrong scale. Wifey was pretty shocked at the number too and verified to make sure I wasn't reading the wrong scale. The tasting at bottling has me fairly convinced, this beer has some serious alcohol. I'm going to look at the recipe when I get home and report back on...

A normal batch yields me 52 12oz bottles. This batch only yielded 47, so I must have been about a half gallon off on the topping. I'll chalk that up to my own idiocy. Can a half gallon make a .040 difference in readings? I always take a temperature measurement with my gravity measurements. I...

I'm sure that OG measurement was accurate. I took it several times, and took temp readings with each measurement. The number was so high that I just kept measuring thinking something was wrong. I've even put another hygrometer side by side with mine to check the instrument. I'm several beers...

Yep, I had a pack of brewer's best carb tabs around so I figured I would give them a shot. I need more buckets. I wanted to bottle on Friday and brew a new batch on Sunday, but the wife insisted I wait to bottle so she could help. I succumbed to doe eyes, and we brewed yesterday. After finishing...

I finally got it settled out at 1.010 and bottled today. This was my first time using a bucket with a spiggot, so I hooked the bottling hose up to the spiggot and fired away. Looked a bit cloudy but tasted like gold.

Brewsnthelou, I had a temperature problem too and found a cheap way to rectify it. While an old refrigerator/lamp setup is best, I just don't have the space for the extra equipment. I ended up finding a way to keep my brew at a solid 68 in a cool room using a reptile heating cord and a timer...

So that being said, what are the normal and optimal storage requirements for yeast? I needed something quick to brew this weekend and picked up an Brewers Best Kolsch kit at a local store. I was a little disgruntled that the yeast pack feels like a brick. That's got me a bit worried.

I finally settled on a name. I love old motorcycles, strong coffee, and high octane brews, so The Throttled Bottle Brewing Company seemed to fit well. Now to work on a logo....

The heater is working well. My initial time settings were too robust. It turns out that I only need four 30 minutes runs spaced 2.5 hours apart during the hours of darkness. This keeps my beer at a rock solid 68 degrees farenheit. In hindsight, the adjustment phase could screw up a beer with...

Temperature fluctuations, this was something I was concerned with. My goal is to dial the timer in so that it doesn't fluctuate much. Perhaps two hours is a bit too much run time. I just finished a two hour run and took temp readings with an infrared thermometer at various points on the bucket...

Problem: I'm hot natured and I hate having it warm around my house. Even further, I'm a tightwad and got a high speed programmable thermostat that effectively turns the heat off at night, knocking that house down to the upper 50's while I sleep. Cold is not good for fermenting beer. I'm new...

So I opened the valve to take a sample. I was excited to find that the beer smelled wonderful, and the gravity reading was low. 1.011 is where I'm at now. This blonde didn't come from Vogue, it obviously came from Muscle Fitness.

The predicted original gravity reading from the kit was 1.038 - 1.054. I did do a partial boil, but I took my reading after I topped it off with water in the primary fermenter. The kit says the final reading should be about 1.008 - 1.013. So what I'm thinking is that I should take a reading now...

I just did my second batch last week. I did a West Coast Blonde extract kit from Homebrew Heaven. Everything went great, but I got an initial gravity reading of 1.090 at 73 degrees. That seems a bit high to me. But fermentation went great: fast and furious. Now, fast forward a week later and...

So N00B here reviving an old thread. Whatever happened to that brew club?

A little more stumbling around on here and I see that a lot of people are leaving it in the primary like you said. I transferred it last night and took the tshirt advice. Even after straining the wort originally, there was a large amount of trub in the bottom of the primary. If for nothing else...

Nope, but I am stationed on Bragg.

Hello to all! I trolled around here all day and figured I might as well introduce myself. My wife bought be a brewing kit this past summer while I was overseas, as a little something to look forward to when I got home. I got back in November and after a little research, finally started my first...

Yes. The beer fairies told me I had to do that.

I'm brewing my first beer too, which is a stout. I got the same reaction you did, but took a slightly different approach. The airlock was going ape ****, and it kept getting blown out of the fermenter. So I sanitized some clear tubing, and connected it to the nipple on the airlock, then ran the...