Recent content by dpwhite87

People have told me that the bottles you buy are super brittle anyway. I mean come on, you're paying almost as much as if they were filled with beer, too! Plus, it's fun to try to guess which brand your bottle originally was.

Seconded! One time I ran a few short on bottles during bottling so I drove down to the beer store, bought a 6 pack, and pounded it. Crisis averted!

Ahhh ok thanks a lot. My kit doesn't actually say what the OG should be though :confused: So really I guess there isn't any way to know my final ABV except maybe ask the dude at the homebrew store what it should be for this kit lol

duboman I am not sure exactly what you mean... are you saying that the reading is off because it was a partial boil?

I took it just prior to pitching, so low 70s range. The recipe really didn't even have a target OG, I was just looking here: http://www.picobrewery.com/askarchive/englishale.htm

Hello everyone, I'm brand new here, but I have been coming here for a while now and it's good to finally post! My question is: I am on my third extract kit, and my OG for the English Pale Ale I have in my primary right now was 1.032. I have found in my research that this is on the...