Root Beer FAILED

[frustratedearthmother]

 

[wyoDreamer]

His carboy with the sweatshirt on looks like a Closet Monster to me!

 

[CrealCritter]

When my friends would brew beer, they would put it in the closet where the water heater was. It would stay nice and warm and bubble away. Their dog would sit in front of the door and growl every time it burped, lol! They called it the monster in the closet.

That's funny LOL, I have mine in the laundry / utility room where the furnace and hot water heater is, it's always warm in there.

 

[CrealCritter]

Day 5 - more bubbles

 

[sumi]

When my friends would brew beer, they would put it in the closet where the water heater was. It would stay nice and warm and bubble away. Their dog would sit in front of the door and growl every time it burped, lol! They called it the monster in the closet.

 

[sumi]

Day 5 - more bubbles
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Looks great!

 

[CrealCritter]

Day 6 - I got bubbles inside of bubbles. I may just have to call this Double Bubble Root Beer. No signs of letting up either. No visual signs of secondary infection. Sniff of the air lock is the faint smells of alcohol. So I suspect it will come to a halt sooner rather than later. Ginger yeast only has a 4.0 to 4.5% alcohol tolerance. So I'm going to pick up some high octane champagne yeast to add for bottling, so the bottles will carbonate.

 

[CrealCritter]

Day 7 - still chugging along with no signs of letting up yet.

Finally starting to see trub on the bottom of the carboy. I don't know if this ferment will be ready @ 10 days or not?

 

[sumi]

It's looking good!

 

[CrealCritter]

Day 8 - its like the energizer bunny. It keep going and going...