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do you guys think 65 is too low to carb thats what my basement is at and i dont have ac in my main living space

my last batchs i just rack ontop and had off carbing here and there...so this time i racked on top and stired gentlly....next time im going rack to bottleing bucket see what i got then do the priming sugar thanks

well i did the kiwi wit from sams extreme brewing and i always put the priming suger on the bottom of the bottling bucket and rack on top. so i did the regular 5oz of primer (dextrose) how ever i didnt intisapate all the kiwi junk at the bottom and only got 4 gallons out of it. so i have 5oz...

thanks guys i thing im gonna do some zest and dry hop it so like 2oz of zest at 10 min a d dryhop 1 or 2 oz of armorillo for a week?

for may second brew im gonna go with another kit to get it down better i was thinking http://www.midwestsupplies.com/homebrewing-ingredients/recipe-kits/amarillo-pale-ale.html a amarillo pale ale however i want to add more grapefruity taste and was wondering if i should add some more...

just read your blog post about green beer ..... but its so hard to wait:p

thanks man never really thought of carb helping the flavor.... so wise

well after 2 weeks in bottle the beer has slight carb kinda a maple smell and a slight butterscotch aftertaste . those things don't concern me that much because i read about green beer and the off taste, what does concern me is the malt flavor has dissipated a bit from week 1 when i tried it...

found this thread that recipe sounds pretty good https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/grapefruit-pale-ale-recipe-comments-201957/

thats recipe looks good but im not set of for all grain on extract brewing .... it sounds really good. could i use 6.6 lbs of a pale extract instead?

Grapefruit pale ale is what im looking to do but most of all the recipes are for an ipa... fiance not a big fan so i want to do a pale ale. if i can get a good grapefruit taste without zest am i loking for sicome or centennial hops? ie only done on kit and i just want to kinda use a recipe now.

should i be fearful of exploding bottles i went on brewers best and they said og to be 1.056-52 and final to be 1.016-12....but thats with there lager yeast i used an ale

yeah its a lil cooler in my house than the optimum fermentation temp so i thought i would keep in in fermentator for 3 weeks. so i checked it throughout and it slowly decreased and the yeast foam all went to the bottom so i thought it was pretty much done

so do you think i messed it up bad?

i brewed a brewers best octoberfest with wyeast 1007 german ale yeast at about 60 62 temp for 3 weeks and it slowey when down to 1.017 on saturday and 1.016 on sundat morning wheni was goona bottle ....so i thought thats close enough, did i do a newbie mistake or will it be fine the og was 1.053

well after 2 weeks its super close to fg 1.018 and when i checked it last at 1.022 it tasted realy good, now it has a bitter aftertaste. its an octoberfest ale using a wyeast german ale yeast. will this go away i really wanted another week in fermenter 3 weeks total

:mug:thanks man youve been a great help :mug:

hmm where/what kind of nylon bag like from a paint store?

i just wanted everything to go right on my first try and all i read was sanitize sanitize sanitize so i do ... guess i got overzelous:drunk:

thanks for the reply guys.... i was thinking maybe rubber banding a fine filter on my siphon when i do bottle it just as a last precaution... the longer time goes by the more confident i feel about it cuz i did clean everything 2 more after it happened