Search results

Hi all... I recently brewed a golden ale with a kit and I was a bit surprised at how bitter it was when it came to bottling day. It spent about 10 days in primary and 3 in secondary, and its been bottled for a week. We used Cooper's carbonation drops for priming/carbonation. I'm assuming it just...

I am new to brewing myself but I have extensively researched this question and the unequivocal best answer is that yeast is a living thing and will behave differently each time you use it. The speed of fermentation varies. What does not change is the fact that you can only be sure the...

Maybe go for it with a small batch... Seems like it might work, but there's only one way to tell. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Well, I have both the priming sugar and the carbonation drops already so it's a sunk cost, but the kit only came with 5 oz of priming sugar and the dextrose calculator says you need about 8.5 oz for a hefeweizen (which is what I am making.) Looking at the average mass of dextrose per Cooper's...

Hi all, I am curious to know your opinions about bottle conditioning beers with priming sugar or using sugar tablets like Coopers Carbonation Drops. Is boiling up the priming sugar and mixing it with the brew in a bottling bucket better than just siphoning from the primary straight into the...

What are your thoughts on carbonation drops vs. the priming sugar? Temperature wise, it's at 68. Sent from my SGH-T999N using Home Brew mobile app

Hi again! I ventured an SG reading of the hefeweizen because it's been so quiet... It's damn near FG! Just > 1.01! (Started at 1.045, the recipe says FG is 1.008) It's been approximately 75 hours at this point. Thoughts? I tasted the sample and it definitely smells like a hefeweizen but it's...

Awesome. Thanks. I'll update the thread on how it goes and/or if there's any other questions...

Awesome. This is all great advice. I have a much greater confidence in the process now. I'm going to avoid transferring to the secondary, and let them sit and stew in the cool until their SG remains constant over a few days. Have I missed anything? Will the brew be in danger if it sits for a few...

Thanks FuzzeWuzze! That settles that issue... So, how often should you check SG? Also, as per the above skepticism regarding kit instructions, would you trust the suggested final gravity measures on the instructions or look them up somewhere?

Hi Queequeg, thanks for your reply... Do you think it's more a matter of getting the beer to the suggested final gravity and then bottling it or picking a period of time (like 2-3 weeks) and sticking to it? How often do you measure SG? If there's "interesting" flavors after 3 weeks, do you think...

Okay, cool! Thanks for explaining that! So between you and Arrheinous, there's at least a consensus on leaving the porter in primary for 3 weeks. I can dig that. Do you think the Hefeweizen should be in there for 3 weeks as well? Would the ideal be to take measurements of the specific gravity...

Hey, thanks for your reply! I think the issue of racking to secondary is more or less resolved -- I'll leave it in. When you say Ale kits are obsolete, though, is it a recent shift towards leaving the beer in primary most of the time? Also, the question of time spent fermenting... The kit...

Hi folks... I'm both (fairly) new to brewing and new to this forum. I recently started a Coffee Porter and a Hefeweizen (both from kits) and I have some questions about transferring to secondary and the length of fermentation. First, the Hefeweizen stopped bubbling after 36 hours (It started...