I was thinking about that... All my brew stuff is in the basement (and I'm in Michigan)... so it's definitely not the warmest spot in the house.. I think ambient temps hang around the mid 60s F... looks like I'll have to commandeer a spot upstairs to store my bottled brew for a little while...

Ah, patience... sometimes the hardest option... but definitely the least amount of work. thanks you all for the advice. I'll wait a week or so and crack open another one. I'm thinking that for future batches, I'll bottle one in a PET bottle so I can check the carbonation by feel.. Cheers!

This is one of those… “let’s throw this together and see how it turns out” kind-of batches… What I did: I bought a couple of Mr. Beer refills (1.87 lbs of hopped LME each) on the after holiday clearance shelf… and since I had two of them, I figured I’d make one 4-gallon batch (using a 5 gal...