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Update: I racked the beer about 2.5 weeks ago and it has been carbonating in the bottles since. I sure hope it comes out alright :) I will probably try the first bottle sometime after labor day and let you all know how it came out.

Sweet thanks!

I have a Brooklyn brewshop 1gal kit. My beer has been in the fermenter for almost three weeks now. I may go ahead and bottle today or tomorrow. When I do, should I rack the beer out of the fermenter into something else (sanitized of course) before racking into bottles? There is a decent layer of...

Oh man, I have a grapefruit honey ale (Brooklyn brewshop) in the fermenter now and I put the whole peel of a grapefruit in with the boil according to the instructions (or at least I thought that was what the instructions had said to do) I wonder if I ruined it... I did taste a sample from the...

Thanks guys. I'll leave it until next weekend then and give it a taste at that point. Maybe go ahead and bottle then too. I assume there's no harm in leaving the beer in the fermenter for too long then? If I use the hydrometer a couple of times as suggested. Do I just syphon beer out of the...

So I got one f those Brooklyn brewshop honey grapefruit ale kits for fathers day. I cooked the grains and made the wert about two weeks ago and have had it sitting in my fermenter on the closet floor since then. Within the first 24 hours it was bubbling hard and settles down within about 48-60...