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Taste is pretty good for a first effort, I'm happily drinking them as a desert beer! I have a second pumpkin beer I'm about to prime and it has more than twice the pumpkin so I'll let you know if it takes even longer to carb this time around. Head retention is normal, I think the fact it was...

It finally carbed after about 4-5 weeks, just fyi.

I just made my first pumpkin ale and bottled it about a 1 1/2 - 2 weeks ago and it hasn't carbonated at all...usually my beers are drinkably carbonated after 1 week and definitely after 2. These beers have absolutely zero bubbles. I took the beer of the yeast cake at week 1 and then put...

Yeah I know it's not ideal, but the idea is to have a system in place to quickly carb a couple of litres (at most) on the odd occasion I haven't left myself enough time to let the beer naturally carbonate before going to club meeting or a mate's place to share some home brew. I only brew 1...

So I bought a Cornelius Keg Charger under the thinking I could buy a valve somewhere and modify a bunch of coke-bottle caps rather than paying $20 per carbonator cap. Has anyone done this before? Have I screwed myself into using some proprietary valve here...

I'm going to make some fruity wheat beers since it is the season :mug: and have a couple of questions regarding skin and seeds. 1) Is it safe to leave the seeds in when fermenting? I've heard that some seeds contain cyanide and this can be leached out. 2) Which fruits should you take the...

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12 weeks, really? I thought that autolysis started after 3 weeks? I'm fermenting at 21deg, on the high side for this yeast I know, but these are my first batches.

The background: I've got a couple of 1 gallon recipes fermenting away at the moment and I'm pretty sure I under pitched one if not both batches as my fermentation was slow to start on one and really slow on the other. From what I've read the 1 day lag can happen with this yeast, but 2 days...

I always get dismissive looks and statements from people when I bring up the idea of low alcohol beer, so many people seem to think that it's not worth drinking if you can't get a buzz from it. Don't get me wrong I love a bit of a kick and at times one hell of a kick but there are also occasions...

The carb level was totally fine, very drinkable. I was aiming for levels of 3.5 - 4, but have nothing to compare it to so I can't say how far along it was though it did give a hell of a pop when I released the swing top. I've got to save my last 2 bottles to see how much the level rises, I may...

Congrats on the milestones! I'm not far ahead of you with my first 2 batches bottled, 1 dry hopping that will be bottled this weekend and 2 in primary. All are 1G batches. I only waited a week to drink my first bottled batch and it went down pretty nicely, some off flavors at the end, but very...

It's not the size that counts, but how you brew it! ;) I walked in to Chapters one day and saw the Brooklyn Brewery 1G kit sitting there just daring me to buy it, so I did and proceeded to make a total school-boy error using tap water which created my first and last pool-water flavored...

Awesome, thanks so much!

Hi all, I just put down a batch and did a gravity read after the boil, but forgot to reread after I topped up the carboy with water and I've already pitched. My question is this: Does anyone know how /is it possible to calculate the gravity knowing the old total volume, the old gravity and...