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I purchased a beer ingredients kit and just realized that it came with lager yeast. Can I use an ale yeast, or do I just need to go buy a different ingredients kit. The kit was a copy for Killians Irish Red.

To start off, I am brand new to this, so thanks for any and all help. I am looking into what equipment to purchase, and wondering about the fermentation buckets. My question is why not buy both needed buckets with spigots, so that you don't ever need to syphon from one to the other? It...