Recent content by torontosudz

Thanks - was in primary for 6 weeks not 6 days :) Hopefully some more bottle conditioning will help!

I need help identifying an off flavour in my beer. It's my third batch and so far my best, but there's a slight off flavour. I've read everything about common off flavours and I can't really tell if it's oxidation or diacetyl or green beer. I don't eat a lot of cardboard or butter so not sure...

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ok thanks guys - it was a wheat beer and jamil's book said to go for between 2.5-3 so I tried to hit the middle.

My basement is generally pretty cool in the summer (between 60-68F) and in winter about 5-10 degrees cooler. I live in a 100 year old house in Toronto if that helps guesstimate what the basement is like (probably similar to Chicago / Detroit in terms of home construction and weather). So I'm...

Bottled my beer yesterday and when I did the priming sugar I based it on 5 gallons, to get to about 2.75 volume of CO2. Turned out it was 4 gallons of beer so I have about 1/5th too much, enough to carbonate to 3.25 Pretty sure we have nothing to worry about re. bottle bombs but some...

After doing an American Brown Ale that got oxidized and/or fermented at too high temperature, and a Christmas Porter that tasted like sucking on a mouth full of cloves.... We have real drinkable home brew! Instead of using the recipe and instructions from a kit I used the info I got...

+ 5 Hoppiness is an IPA (with slight hop variation) + 5 Fingerweissen (Hoppy American wheat w/ poor sanitation procedures) 21,457

all of the above is great - +1,000,000 on the auto-siphon... this small ticket item will save you big ticket migraines.

I had some friends over and was showing them how to brew recently. First I smashed a thermometer into the boil pot and had to start over. Then after talking about sanitation and getting chloramine out of the water, I put the pot into the sink for an ice bath. As I did that I...

Thanks guys, that's what I thought - the best action is to chill the eff out and leave it be! I will most likely try to exchange or return this... kind of a shame.

Doing a primary in a big mouth 6.5 gallon for the first time and some of the krausen is leaking out of the side. We noticed when we got it that the lid was wonky and didn't screw on that well/easily but thought we had it right when we put it away to ferment. So if krausen is leaking out the...

+2 on the auto siphon .... I find racking a messy pain in the butt

The name says it all, share your thoughts and also if there's any you avoid, do tell.

If you want to save money by brewing move to Canada where the beer in stores is 2x the cost and voila!