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I'd check it for a couple days after all the bubbling in the airlock has stopped (or slowed to almost nothing). If it remains the same for two or three days, bottle it. Could take a week, could take two weeks, let the beer tell you when it is ready.

I do enjoy Anchor Steam, would you share the recipe?

This advice only applies to ales. I defer to the more experience brewers on the board for a lager, but I live in steaming hot florida and it gets to at least 80 during the day even with the A/C on. One thing I found made a BIG difference was NOT using the yeast that came with the kit (although...

Yep, probably the yeast. This is considered a good thing by some, if you don't enjoy it, switch it up next time.

Brew what you enjoy. If you make a lighter beer just to see the color, so what? So the color is, let's say, perfect. Now you got five gallons of something you are not that fond of. The advice about hefeweisen is excellent, it is easy to brew, tastes wonderful (and is pretty hard to screw up...

That is really cool. :mug:

You know the guy, you may be that guy. I am that guy. The guy who uses an extract kit (and a no-boil one at that, haha). The guy who may add a few extra hops or a grain bag to the boiling water before he adds the extract, but that’s it. The guy who dumps his “wort” directly into his plastic...

Just finished bottling my fifth batch of beer this year, a pseudo-Belgian ale. It's been so hot here, I was worried there may be some off flavors, but the mid-80s (inside my house during the day) didn't seem to have affected anything. I will be trying a saisson next, if I can find the proper...