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Baking soda and hot water soak has always taken the labels off for me.

I think those are my exact words when that happened to me but mine was outside thank god! Wifey would have been pissed lol

Its really hard to tell how the beer is going to taste at two weeks in the bottle since it hasn't had time to condition. Just give it some time. I have tasted an amber at 2 weeks and was very worried that it was way to bitter but at 2 months my concerns were gone cause it was delicious.

Don't dump it! It might just need more conditioning. I had a raspberry blonde that started out very tart, not sour, but that mellowed out after some time. Time can fix a lot of things so put them aside and try one in a month or two and see where its at.

I don't know why but I never thought to soak in vodka before, i like the idea of the flavored vodka too. I have done this with vanilla and cocoa nibs. I once soaked 1lb of nibs in 750ml of vodka in 3 mason jars, dumped the nibs and the vodka into a 10 gallon batch of chocolate milk stout :D

Welcome to the club! I still have some hops on my garage ceiling. It reminds me to use a blow off tube to start fermentation.:ban:

You might check your gravity to see if it has changed since your last sample, smell and taste. If gravity hasn't changed and everything seems good then I would go ahead and bottle.

Hey tkely, once you have reached fg I would rack your brew onto your berries in a secondary vessel. I did 2 weeks with 7lbs and it had a nice taste but I have upped it to 10lbs on other batches. It can be a real mess when it comes to transferring to your bottling bucket. I have used a bit muslin...

I think you are going to be fine. You can also use the orange carboy caps if you have one. Cap the one hole and run a blow off from the other.

Some Zack brown to outlaw country like hank, hank Jr, Jennings, merle , Jones, Willie, Jerry reed, johnny paycheck and some Jamie johnson

Decanted 2 2000ml starters and transferred to mason jars for tomorrows kolsch. Picked up some extra hose to add a pre chiller to tomorrows batch since it is going to be in the triple digits . Today was 106!!! Stay cool!

Calicraft Cali kolsch. Local guy out of San Jose CA. Pretty damn good!

That's a bit warm. My first year I got a big plastic storage bin and placed the carboys in there with water and 2 frozen 2L soda bottles. Make sure to have 4-6 bottles so you can swap frozen bottles at least twice a day. Might be a pita but its worth it. Good luck keeping it cool!

I agree with avidhomebrewer. You want to be able to control the flow coming out of the tun.

I have gotten some big sweet grapefruit from a combo of simcoe and amirillo. I love it! Congrats on the brew!

WTH Happened? Sorry for the duplicates!!!

I honestly don't/didn't do anything to the berries other than wash them off and mash em up, rack the beer on the berries. I have used blue, black and raspberries and never had an issue with an infection. I have seen some talk about doing a quick boil to try and sanatize and others just put the...

I honestly don't/didn't do anything to the berries other than wash them off and mash em up, rack the beer on the berries. I have used blue, black and raspberries and never had an issue with an infection. I have seen some talk about doing a quick boil to try and sanatize and others just put the...

I honestly don't/didn't do anything to the berries other than wash them off and mash em up, rack the beer on the berries. I have used blue, black and raspberries and never had an issue with an infection. I have seen some talk about doing a quick boil to try and sanatize and others just put the...

What kind of berries? I would not add them to the boil. Fermentation will scrub out flavors and araoma of your berries. I have always added fruit to a secondary fermenting vessel and racked the fermented beer on the fruit. How many lbs do you have? I have had good success with 1-2 lbs per gallon...