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INGREDIENTS (INCLUDED): EQUIPMENT NEEDED: 3.3 lbs. Plain Light Malt Extract 2 lbs. Plain Light Dry Malt Extract 12 oz. Crushed Crystal Malt 1 oz. Crushed Black Patent 1 oz. Willamette Hops (Bittering) filler, 1 oz. Willamette Hops (Finishing) I want to convert this extract kit...

I found a bag of these in the store. Could you use these to brew with? What style of beer? The bag states these are 100% whiskey barrel chips. Thanks, Dave

I am pretty close to the bottling stage. I have white priming sugar that came with the bock kit. Any suggestions on using something other than white sugar to improve taste?

Erase sorry guys

Extract brewers best Euro bock 1.65 starting 1.020 When I took it 8 days later. the final gravity should be 1.020 So i am kind of worried.

Took my first gravity reading 8 days later. After taking the measurement I tasted the ale and it was pretty watery. Should I be worried or is that normal at this point?

Okay. I didn't have a spare fridge to sit this fermenting bucket in so i went out and bought an igloo cooler that I could sit the bucket in. I also bought 10 small blue ice packs. I figured I could rotate 3 - 4 at a time to keep it in the proper temperature range. ON another note. You would...

Thanks for the advice guys. I will correct that right away

It is fermenting around 76-79 degrees right now

I am brewing a bock beer and the instructions say to bottle after 7 - 10 days and then let it sit for another 21 days. Is this about right or would you let it sit in the fermentor for longer than 7 - 10 days? I have been read some threads on the forums where others have let their beer sit in the...

That should read messed up *laugh*

and I got everything in the fermentor. I was pretty pleased with myself. I used a "Brewers best" kit (European bock) and I go to bed. Imagine my horror when I look in the brewers best kit box and find a package of dry malt sitting in the box. Is it too late to salvage this beer? Is there...