Recent content by kylelp

Hey Folks, I must confess this (hopefully it will help me), but I believe I committed beer negligence. I made a my version of an American wheat about 2 months ago. Immediately in the primary, the air lock was no bubbling however I was 90% sure CO2 was being produced due to certain...

I understand this taste. I recently did the triple hopped Miller lite clone where'd I dry hoped for 10 days and have this taste as well. Even after 2 to 3 weeks in the bottle. My solution or plan for next time is to not dry hop or dry hop for a shorter duration. I don't have enough...

I was surprised, I bought ingredients for my first all grain and bought a partial kit for her, kinda for fun but knowing i was most likely was gonna brew it. Low and behold, I was gone and came back on a sunday afternoon and the mashing just started when i walked in the door. It does help that...

Hey Folks, I was just wondering how many people brew with their wife/husband or significant other. So far my wife and I have done 1 extract together, she's done 2 partial extracts with my help and i've done 2 BIAB with her help. Sorry if this topic has already been posted

I recently have noticed all of my beers when i bottle have this similar bad off taste. It taste better out of the fermenter before bottling compared to after it has been bottled. Research shows this can be due to oxidation or infection. I don't think oxidation is the issue, but i took...

Hey Folks, I just bottled my 1st batch of this (2nd all grain). My final gravity was 1.004, my original gravity was 1.042. I calculated this as 90% attenuation, is this correct? I left it in the primary for 17 days before bottling, would it be less if i bottled it sooner? Also, this is my...

I will wait for next weekend to give it another try (that would be about 2 weeks in the bottle). I do not do any water changes, mainly cause I spent a lot of money on brewing stuff recently and just want to brew. I do not use tap water since it has a ph of 8.4, instead I use purified drinking...

How come some people have this taste great out of the fermenter when my taste bad? Is it my fermentation temp. not being controlled? I also brew in an Aluminum 8 gallon pot that has a really dark oxide layer (which i thought was good) but could this be causing any problems?

Correct its been in the bottle 2-3 days so i'm hoping it is just young, but i feel its hard to come up from where it is at now. I fermented for 7 days then transferred to 2ndary for 9 days then bottled. I put the primary in a bath tub with water but forgot to add ice packs until the 2nd day.

I used rahr 2 row malt, rahr 6 row malt and flaked corn, all from homebrewsupply.com I did find a post of some one who tried this at day 9 and day 20 and said it got alot better, so i know there is hope. I plan to do it again, I read you can add amylase to the primary and get the same result...

Do you have to dry hop this recipe? If you don't, what would you do instead. Used this recipe as my 1st BIAB all grain and it didn't really turn out well. It taste very light at the begging and when I swallow it has just a not good taste (hard to describe). Part of the taste is grassy if that...

Welcome This hobbie is as expensive as you want it to be. But lets say you do 60 gallons of beer (which is 1 5gallon batch per month). 1 gallon will give you about 9 to 10 12oz bottles. So for the year (using 9 bottles per gallon), you get 540 bottles. Lets say your budget is 1 dollar per...

Hey Folks, I bought a 7.5 gallon and 6.5 gallon fermonster recently with my intension of using the smaller one as a 2ndary. However I have a cider I want to age for 3 months using the 6.5 but its all plastic. Is this okay to do? I bought it with the intention of maybe keeping a beer in...

I appreciate the tips. I believe i found the culprit to my beer. I used a wire cooking thermometer that has a wire leading to the probe. However I don't think it is water proof and got shorted out during my heating process. It currently is not reading correctly at all. I took some water that...

TO ALL NEW BREWERS DOING THEIR 1ST BATCH, DO NOT UNDER ANY RHYME OR REASON THROW AWAY YOUR BEER! I am no expert and have only 30 gallons or so beer under my belt but, about 3 months ago, I found a bottle in my fridge of the very 1st beer I made. Now up until this point, My 1st batch did not...