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Dry hopping worked a treat...really fresh aroma, I do it most these days, but then I'm a bit of a hop head

Well...it didn't start bubbling, I even added a little more sugar to see if I could get the extra yeast I put in to activate...but nothing. Measured it again on Sunday and it was still 1018...so decided to bottle it...hopefully there won't be any bottle bombs in there... I'm thinking/hoping...

Thanks for the advice, I'll see if it's bubbling again when I get home, if not I'll take a reading and see if anything has changed... Not sure if I should bottle at 1018,. isn't it a little high, could I be creating ticking time bombs??

Help needed please, I brewed the following recipe the other weekend, see below link; recipeview.php?recipe_id=1325 ...when I measured the OG I only got 1038, after 2 days of constant bubbling on the airlock things died down... I left it for a total of 10 days and then syphoned it last night...

well it's been dry hopped for 7 days and today was the day to bottle it....went rather well, I've decided to try batch priming, so boiled 200ml of water and dissolved 110g's of sugar in, mixed and brought back to the boil...cooled and then added to my bottling bucket before transferring in the...

I usually use the extra light spray malt, as pictured in my original post as an addition, not tried it as the base malt extract before, will give it a go next time I think...

...this is one of the main reasons I've not moved to AG, as I have very little free time, especially since we have a 9 month old baby....maybe I'll move to AG in a few years time when I've exhausted the possibilities of extract brews......one thing that I'm trying to achieve but seem to have...

Glad you found the post useful, now to try and answer your questions I buy my water because the water round our area is over chlorinated, you can use campden tablets to sort this however, I'm lazy....and as water is such a key part of the process I like to have a constant in my process... I...

interesting, just as a footnote to my original post, the yeast appears to have done most of its work, as this morning it's reasonably quite and the head has gone down... that's not dissimilar to the S-04 yeast that I normally use....pitched on saturday afternoon and mostly done by thursday...

I agree, even more so since I'm using extract...perhaps clone is the wrong word to use...what I'm actually after is something similar, we all need goals....

Thanks, I've been meaning to document one of my brews for a while, hope people find it useful...

thanks...I hope people find it useful I've not used US-05 before, normally always use S-04...will have to see how it goes, not sure I'll be happy to wait a couple of weeks for it to complete, nor will my wife.... let me know how you get on with it and I'll post back my findings too...

So I fell in love with this ale, so decided to try and make a clone however, as I’m not doing all grain brewing this is an extract recipe. My beersmith details are below… Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Extract Type: Extract Date: 15/05/2010 Batch Size: 21.00 L Boil Size: 9.19 L Asst Brewer...

I always rinse the bottles after use, same as previous poster, then when it comes to bottling time I just fill the bath, adding some VWP and submerge all the bottles in the bath water solution...leave for about 15 minutes and then rinse each bottle a couple of times to remove the VWP...

**BUMP** anyone any thoughts on my recipe ?? specifically the amount of flavouring for the batch size... Thanks in advance

I've now done more than 5 extract brews and am happy with the process and am now looking to experiment a bit with different styles however, I don't want to make a 23l batch as it could all go terribly wrong. So I was thinking of make a 10l batch or beer in time for christmas.... what I'm after...

I've just had this very same experience, first time using irish moss during the boil...i thought it was fungus at first but soon realised it wasn't and bottled the beer, losing a couple of litres due to all the **** in the fermentor.....I had plenty of oxygen prior to pitching the yeast...will...

well I crack my first couple of bottles open the other night, just to try it as it needs a few more weeks to condition....I was very impressed, tasted much better than my first brew (a kit), which I was kidding myself into thinking was so good that I'd be a master brewer in no time... Onwards...

so I managed to bottle my first extract brew last night, had a bit of a nightmare due to the hops seeds in the fermenter getting stuck in the bottling tube and a few getting through into a couple of bottles...also couldn't get all the beer out of the fermenter for the same reason as...

thanks, altered the recipe and will give this a try and get back to you...won't be for a few weeks though as I have quite a lot of beer on the go at the moment... :party: