What I've been doing is letting the bottles carbonate and then leave them for w weeks to condition. Is this okay? Do I condition the beers first and then bottle them?
I accidentally spilled about a quarter or 30% of my crushed grain on the floor. I threw it out. Will this effect how my beer tastes if I end up using less crushed grain then I was supposed to in the kit?
I will try stouts with very different or unique flavors, but for now I'm afraid to drop $ on unfamiliar territory. I didn't pick up any chocolate or coffee flavors (that would be nice). Just....hotdog. After I drank that first can I couldn't shake it off.
Some stuff I picked up at a grocery store, I usually only drink ale lager or pilsner.
There was Murphy's stout, and Taddy or Tabby something, I think it was porter but also tasted like hotdogs. I really don't ever drink stout and only rarely porter.
I'm kind of just messing around with my next batch but I'm trying to make a high percentage beer that tastes like cherry soda. I'm gonna add cherry extract but I was thinking how good or bad of an idea it would be to just use cherry soda for water. Like ffaoe said I thought it would accomplish...
I'm going to get one of those buckets for my next batch, but for now I'll be letting out the co2 manually each day.
I'm on a tight budget now, but that'll be fixed eventually, I just thought everything had to be sealed tight and so that's why my water bottle all but exploded.
Is it...
I just started my first batch on October 9th, and my main problem is finding proper containers. I'm working on pretty low funding here, and had my beer in a milk jug. Such a newbie here that I didn't realize co2 would be a problem. I came home to find the milk jog expanded outwards, and leaking...