I just shook the jugs to see if they would degas. The store bought honey and D-47 ended up fizzing out over the top. It went wild LOL.
The other 2 how signs of bubbles but nothing really came out of the air lock. I think I will give it a couple more days the check the gravity. If no change from...
I made 3 1 gallon batched of mead. For 2 of them I heated 6lbs of clover honey with 1 1/2 gallons of water to about 120 degrees. Got the honey all dissolved and then split between 2 gallon glass jugs. Let cool to 70 degrees and split a packet of wyeast sweet mead and pitched into each jug. I...
Everything was cleaned before hand and sanitized with Star-San. I also sanitized everything when taking samples and did not dump samples back into fermenter.
I have brewed 3 extract batches so far. Irish Red has been bottled for almost a month, Caribou Slobber has been bottled for 2 weeks. Both kits from Northern Brewers.
They both have a tangy aftertaste. Its worse toward the end of a glass. Almost makes them hard to drink.
Water is from...
The Kit had LME and the yeast used was Wyeast 1272.
Readings on each hydrometer have been the same for each one. The OG was 1.038 at 70 degrees with the plastic and the glass reading was 1.040 at 70 degrees.
Calculating them out they come to the same ABV.
I started my first ever homebrew 11 days ago. Irish Red Ale extract kit. On sunday I seen that there was no activity so yesterday and the day before I too samples and did a gravity test. Both days are the same.
I plan on doing another sample tonight to see what that says but the water in the...
Hello all!!!
I am from NW Wisconsin, about 60 miles south of Duluth, MN
New to brewing, I just brewed my first 2. Irish Red Ale, and Caribou Slobber both extract kits from Northern Brewers.
I have a lot of reading to do on this site!!!!