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Yes unfortunately I'm bad about taking gravity readings. I'm one of those who pitch and forget. I figure if you do things right a long primary takes care of the rest. I will definitely be more observant next time.

I just tested it and it was off by a point in tap water. It read 1.002. So that would bring the beer down to 1.026. Still really high. Well, I tried a beer tonight after chilling it for a few hours. It wasn't that bad, definitely young tasting but what do you expect for being bottled less...

The recipe called for 154 for 90 minutes, I think I hit 152 or so. I was wondering if the half pound of Caramunich and a half pound of Caravienne combined with really good efficiency could have extracted a lot more unfermentables than it should.

After I filled all the bottles, I used the little bit of beer left in the bottling bucket to fill up the tube for the hydrometer. So I'm thinking the priming sugar would have been mixed up fairly well with the beer. I will give that a shot. I'll chill one and try it. Thanks.

I recently made an all grain 5 gal batch of Ed Wort's Bee Cave Oktoberfest ale and followed it to the letter except I used a packet of US-04 instead of a Kolsch yeast. The original recipe called for a lot of grain (about 14 lbs). The only other differnce was my local home brew store subbed...

Well, I followed the recipe exactly except I used a packet of US-04. I think I had a OG much higher, however I failed to take a reading. After three weeks in primary, I bottled. I was worried when I tried a sample and found it extremely sweet. I took a reading and it was 1.028! Unfortunately...

I made this beer on July 15 and bottled on August 1. Just tried one today. Very good! I made the batch for a friend who has graduated from Massage Therapy school and is having a party this weekend. She likes Irish Reds, so I volunteered to supply her with beer this weekend. I used the less...

27. I enjoy seeing water and sugar turn into something delicious

When your coworker says, "you have a problem" because every time he walks by you're on this site researching stuff.

I was wondering about the same thing the other day when my 20lb tank felt really light and was worried about running out in the middle of a 60 min boil for a 5 gal batch. I heat my mash and sparge water on the electric stove, so I thought I might be able to get by. I weighed the tank before...

Well, I've tried two tonight:drunk: and all I can say is delicious! The first had a very very slight plastic taste but way drinkable, the second I detected no off flavor at all. :rockin: So maybe its just green beer taste or just random contamination I encountered with the other bottles. I...

I am in the same boat with a very prominent plastic taste in my double chocolate stout that has been bottle conditioning for almost 3 weeks. I too tasted the beer at bottling and detected no plastic off flavor, in fact it tasted quite good. About a week ago I chilled and tasted one ( as I...

what was your recipe? I'm looking to do my first red ale soon and and can't decide which one to do.

Thats a work of art...I got to brew this for the summer months.

LOL...Well, she doesn't even ask me to help with folding laundry...she doesn't think I know how to fold it right....Who am I to argue:ban:

I looked at my wife and said, "See, I could race boats as a hobby and nearly kill myself ever other year!" Nice one, I'll have to think of something like that to say next time she gets annoyed at me:rockin:

Yeah, I know the feeling. I just got into it (on my second batch) and feels like everything revolves around brewing beer. Today I called my wife to say hey, but really just wanted to ask her if she would check and see what the temperature was on the primary (I just pitched the yeast Saturday...

Yeah, I'm going to try to wait it out a little while longer before I throw back the rest...don't know if I have the will power. Talking about addiction, I already have an american pale ale kit on the way from Austin Homebrew Supply! I already learned a lot from this site that I plan on using...

I brewed a True Brew Oktoberfest kit recently I got from my LHBS. Two weeks in the primary bucket and I was going to be patient and let three weeks go by in the bottles before I tried one. Well, this afternoon after about a week and a half in the bottles I couldn't wait. I was worried that it...