Recent content by loubie

I'm in too!

I started with 6.5 gallons of water and ended up with a little less than 5.5 gallons of product. This gave me about 5 gallons of beer to bottle. I leave the stuff in the bottom of the fermenter out of the final bottling product.

First, sorry I didn't post yesterday. Okay, good news! I got a little "schtttt". When I opened this one and a quarter inch head. 4 weeks in the bottle. Just like others have said, we just need to be patient as it is slow to build carbonation! I'll wait another few weeks and I think it will...

I'm going to open another one today to see if it has built up any carbonation. I used tasty brew too and got 3.2 oz. for 4.5 gallon which is right for a Belgian Tripel. I think this is about the same ratio you have. I know I did everything right and the brew fermentation was vigorous. The...

WOW! That's a long time to wait! I'm going to wait another 3 weeks or so and try again. I hope it starts to show some signs of life. I've got it stored at 70 degrees right now. I didn't calculate the alcohol yet but I think it was 1.087 then the final reading was 1.013.

Well, I popped open my first bottle of this terrific brew and absolutely flat. No carbonation! 3.5 weeks in the bottle after 30 days or so fermentation. I used the recommended calculator to determine the amount of priming sugar ( I think it was 3.2 ounces for a 4.5 gallon). I was hoping...

OK, thanks. I'll use the tastybrew calculator.

Boy was I way off on my first brew. I used 4.5 ozs of priming sugar for my first brew of Bavarian Hefeweizen. It did't have much fermentation. Now I see why. According to these calculators I should have used 8.3 ozs instead. Then I was going to use 5 ozs of priming sugar for this recipe...

Your brew looks great! I brewed mine last month and so far it has fermented for 32 days. I got the same exact hydro readings as you did- 1.082 and 1.012. I'm getting ready to bottle it today. How much priming sugar did you use for your bottling? I have 5 ounces for my 5 gallon (slightly...

I just wrapped up my first brew of this beer. Three days fermenting so far. I thought my Simple Hefeweizen had the smell of banana. It is nothing in comparison to this beer! Man does it smell awesome! Sweet banana fills the room! I can't wait to drink this one! I don't know if I can hold...

Actually, I was talking about the starter. I started with 1600 ml of water plus fermentables and in 10 minutes it boiled down to 1100 ml! I thought I measured wrong and added more water to the mix and it did it again! It seems like I remember boiling my first starter directly in the flask the...

Where do you get it? I'm obviously not shopping at the right place!

Awesome! I hope the brew turns out well! Did you have a heavy boil off of liquid when you made your starter? Mine boiled off almost 33%!

Rochefort 10 Trappist Ale, Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier, Unibroue - Don de Dieu and Unibroue - La Fin Du Monde........so far.....hehe!

I used DME and the WLP500. It's bubbling, foaming, and looking good after 24 hours! I think I'll start my brew tomorrow pitch it tomorrow evening with 48 hours in. Thanks for your help!