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Will do that. Yeah they usually have been tapped by then so not much time to mature.

I am having the same issue in about 12 batches. I have never bottle conditioned and have only force carbed. All batches tasted great post boil and post fermentation. It has been very discouraging. We had several glasses of our last batch before it was carbed and couldnt wait to tap the keg but...

Yeah, the reason I was asking was because I was steeping like 6lbs of grains and didnt know if I needed to add more water for the DME. Previously I was only steeping like 2lbs max and didnt think twice about it. Thanks guys, I looked around in the threads but I didnt find what I was looking for.

If 1qt/lb of water for grains. Would it be .75qt/lb of LME and .6qt/lb of DME? Does it even make a difference?

Yeah it seems ok so far, I havent tested my PS3 yet. Yeah that could have been a real costly batch of brew.

Well I will recap this since its not done yet but pretty funny anyways. I needed to make a batch of beer for my buddy that will be in town in 14 days. I hurried up and brewed a scotch ale that I had upped some grains and DME. Everything went good until I was about to pitch the yeast. My...

Wow, the Irish Stout was GREAT. I left it in the primary for about 15 days. ( Couldn't decide on priming and bottling or keging and use CO2) We went with CO2 and was very pleased that we made that decision before even trying our first batches. The Irish Stout was dark and creamy with almost...

Thanks for the incite, I was just getting a little worried.

I believe that we followed the instructions good. My initial hydrometer reading was were it needed to be. The primary fermentation bubbled the airlock vigorously after about 12 hrs and was pretty steady for about 3.5 days but hasn’t done anything from day 3.5 till 5. I took another hydrometer...