In addition to what you've learned so far ... you can 'back-sweeten' your beer with an non-fermentable sugar such as lactose (or Splenda?). I've never back-sweetened nothing so maybe see what Teh Google or Teh Mashini have to say about it. It's also possible the BD kit ain't all that. A different r...

6) Bottling wand cuts down on oxidation of the beer in the bottles. The wand is filling from under the beer (most of the time) and not introducing more oxygen then the initial squirt up front. If you just pour it in you are adding oxygen the entire time you are filling your bottle. This will affect...

Kealia wrote:I have nothing to add, mashani covered it.

So if nothing else, know that there's a "I second that" on what he wrote.

Awesome! Thank you!

If you wanted to make that beer a lot sweeter, then you would want to add more malt extract, not sugar. Malt extract will only ferment out 70-80%, the rest is left over malt sugars, so... sweetness. In your case you would want to use an extra can of the Red Horse Mellow Amber extract, or buy some D...

I've brewed 3 beers so far with my Brew Demon and have some questions. 1. I haven't been using any kind of soap / detergent in the Brew Demon fermenter. I've just hosed the inside and wiped it down with a clean (soft, non-abrasive) sponge. But SHOULD I be using soap? I'm afraid of imparting a soapy ...

My second batch of Brew Demon was disappointing. I brewed Brew Demon's Ye Olde Devil Nut Brown Ale, and while it's not a BAD beer, I don't particularly love it, either. The label says: Like the devil of yore, one sip of this deceptively sweet ale and you will be striking a bargain for your soul. The...

Hi Everyone, I used to brew in my grad school years, back in the mid 90's. I brewed using the standard primary bucket fermenter a 5 gallon carboy and creating the mash. I only brewed 5 or 6 batches of this, along with a mead and cizer, mostly because it was so damned inconvenient and I was working f...

I've cut back on drinking to avoid weight gain, but previously I was brewing 5 gallons once a month or more. Small batches and extract batches are quicker, you could bet another fermenter and brew every week. I had two or three fermenters my first year, and brewed often. I was going to ask this too...

I keep 2 or 3 three gallon fermenters (with 2.5 or 3 gallons in them) going except for days in between bottling and brewing. I have a 4th fermenter if I decide for some reason I need to get more into the pipeline. I was actually thinking something along these lines but I wasn't sure if I was crazy ...

In my brew closet; production = consumption 2.5G batch every other Friday night. Ferment 3 weeks Warm condition 3 weeks Cold condition 2 weeks Just gots to figure out the right production schedule and build that pipeline ... Hahahaha! Yeah, I'm trying to figure out my production schedule! You wrote...

I brew 5 gallon batches and keg the beer. I can put up to 4 kegs in my fridge. Right now I have four in there. A pale ale, a Dortmunder lager, a Kolsch and a petite saison. The saison is almost gone though. And the Kolsch is still carving, probably be another 4 days or so before that one gets tappe...

The Brew Demon recommendation is 1 week in the fermenter, 1 week in the bottles. Most of the advanced brewers here recommend >= 2 weeks in the fermenter, and >= 2 weeks in the bottles. I can ___easily___ drink 2 gallons of beer in 4 weeks. I can even easily drink 2 gallons of beer in 2 weeks, and I ...

I'd like to get some sticky labels for my 1L PET bottles to either simply write some data like beer type/times/dates/amounts/etc, or else print a nice home-designed label and give my cool-looking bottles as presents. The problem is that many labels I've seen are just too sticky. You have to really a...

If you want the simplicity of bottle priming and don't want to batch prime, and you don't care about every bottle being "exactly" the same (which is unlikely when measuring with a spoon anyways so probably doesn't matter much), then use Domino's Dots sugar cubes. I still use them unless I...

On a side note, airlock activity is not a good indication of fermentation. Lack of airlock activity is not a good indication that fermentation is complete. It's probably done after 7 days, but you might like your results better if you ferment for two weeks. Oh, whoops! I was just following the inst...