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okay. I took a reading right now, and I'm getting basically the same thing. 1.01. I'm not sure what that means, but I was under the impression the SG should have changed at least a little bit. It tasted better now though. Better, not good. It didn't have enough cherry flavor so I'm gonna...

Okay. I'm not quite yet ready to bottle, but tomorrow will be 2 weeks in 2dary. I want to make sure the SG stabilized, like you said, but I don't want to keep opening it. Should I just take a sample, take a reading, and put it in a separate beer bottle. Then when i take my next reading...

Cool. Thanks again.

Okay. So I racked today. I racked it on top of 4 lbs of cherries. I screwed up a little and let some yeast through the siphon and also some air a few times. THere is about 1-2 inches of headspace in the bucket. I hope it's alright. I'll let you know how it goes. So how many weeks would...

So when you sterilize using heat, you just heat it up to 160 degress like they all say?

Wow. Thanks for taking the time to write up all that info. It was very helpful, and I guess I'm just going to need to see what I like through trial and error. But how would you add the fruit to the beer? In terms of pasteurization and stuff? Thanks again.. you (and everyone else) have...

That's a good idea, but how would I ferment that? Separately that is? I'm going to have a 2dary fermenter (unfortunately a bucket, can't afford a carboy), so how would I ferment the 24 oz separately? And how would YOU recommend using fresh fruit?

Lol. Okay, thanks. It's not sour at all, so I guess I'm good like you said. Now, I'm going to buy 3-4 lbs of frozen cherries, cook at 161 Degrees, throw them in the bottom of 2dary fermenter rack booze let sit Sound good? Or do you think I should absolutely use extract? I would just...

Oh. after taking my 1st reading, I put the beer from the hydromter into a beer bottle and lightly covered it. I then took the my new reading from the bottle (so it's the same sample, it wasn't directly from the fermenter. Is that okay? I read somewhere that that's a good way to do it so you...

Sorry, I've been busy. It's reading the same thing. Idk how to describe the taste. It wasn't sweet (which I guess worries me). It tastes like beer, but it has an after taste. I guess I should just move it over to 2dary, right?

oh, and it tasted like nasty beer. 1 because it was warm, 2 IDK why. It did taste somewhat like beer though

Okay, so my reading today was 1.012ish (8 days later) Bad news is that this is my 1st reading ever (i just bought a hydrometer) Good news is that the airlock isn't bubbling IDK if it's good/bad news is that it stopped bubbling a few days after i brewed it, and it never really bubbled all...

Gotcha. Thanks for the help. I'll post my hydrometer readings. And I'm gonna look up what the heck a wine thief is.

I went to check on it today, and it appears as though it's not fermenting like it should be. There is over a minute in between bubbles in the airlock. I did remove the airlock from the grommet yesterday, IDK if that had anything to do with it.

So my beers been fermenting for 3-4 days now. I'm gonna pick up a hydrometer on Wed. Once the SG has leveled out for 3 days straight, I'm gonna rack to a 2ndary fermenter. I'm going to be using a 5 gallon bucket, I can't afford a carboy right now. I plan on adding some fruit to the 2ndary...

Yea, I'm gonna get a hydrometer. I didn't know that there were different types of hydrometers though, mine is definitely one meant to measure salt. I knew about the trub and everything, but the main thing that got me paranoid was that most of the videos I saw had ppl that had very clean wort...

Okay.. I feel better now. I didn't know there were different types of refractometers. I thought they just sort of measure the bouyancy of water. I guess not though. Japhroaig... I boiled the hops for a total of 1 hour, the finishing hops and irish moss for about 7-10 mins. The pellets...

I need some help. I brewed everything and my 1st problem was that the hops I had practically dissolved in the wort. I had the pellets and I didn't use a muslin bag because I didn't have an extra one. I just threw them in and when I poured the wort from the pot to the fermenter, I could...

That just might save your life...

seriously?? ima have to try that. if I burn the house down i'm comin for you and thanks for the responses