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Hi, I am a fairly new brewer and have been doing most of my work on an electric coil type stove with a 3 gallon brew pot. I have been pleased with every batch so far. Our stove broke and we bought one of those ceramic top types. Since I have already had one boil over I am going to move my...

Hi, I purchased a kit from my LHBS that they put together. I figured why not and brewed it. It is in bottles now. I was wondering, if I listed the recipe here can someone with brewing software tell me more about what the beer will be like. For example what is the IBU and ABV. Also what...

I have made 5 of the brewers best kits and have tried 3 of them so far. All were good but I like the IPA the best.

After hours of going cross-eyed with PowerPoint I couldnt get the text perfectly round. As for the sinking ship it is my other hobby which I spend all my time and money on. Ten years ago a boat I had sank.

What do you think? I kept them B/W so I can print on a laser printer. I get 6 on a page and can easily cut with a paper cutter. Glue stick holds them on nice and is real easy to come off.

Hi Skip, I was wondering, did your kit include the 4oz, crushed Crystal Malt 20L? I brewed the same kit about 3 weeks ago and it did not include that. I brewed it anyway.

I have done several batches already using the 1-2-3 method and the results have been great. I'm doing a porter now (Brewers Best Robust Porter Kit) and was wondering since it is dark, is there any value in clarifying in a secondary.

Already transferred to secondary. Yeast came with the kit, here are the ingredients: 6.6 lbs. Coopers Light Malt Extract 8 oz. Crushed Victory Malt 16 oz. Crushed Crystal 60L Malt 2 oz. Northern Brewer Hops (Bittering) AA8.0% 1 oz. Cascade Hops (Finishing) AA5.8% 1 packet Muntons Bear...

Just opened and it smelled great (nice hop aroma) Gravity measured 1.019 @ 74 degrees OG was 1.050 @ 80 degrees 10 days ago. Recipe calls out OG 1.050-1.055 and FG 1.012-1.015. So I think this means its time to go to secondary even though I'm a few points short of what the recipe calls...

The airlock stopped bubbling after the 2nd day. It started off really quick, rapid bubbling in ~7 hours but then died out somewhere around the 48 hour mark. It is now at day 10 and there is no bubbling.

I have had an IPA extract kit in a plastic bucket primary for 10 days. I want to open and check gravity to see if I should transfer to secondary (glass carboy). If I open and the gravity is still high should I recover and install the air lock again? Will oxygen getting in be an issue?

Can anyone describe the taste of green beer? I see many posts talking about it but I am not certain of the taste. Tasted a bottle of my first batch after 1 week conditioning = not yet carboniated and tasted watery. Tasted a bottle after 2 weeks = mild carboniation, not much of a head...

And that's root beer he's bottling!

Side burner of the BBQ worked nicely for me (seems OK for the small stuff < 2 gallons):

Thanks for the tips. I think I will just wait another week and taste one again. Sorry for the notes, it works but it is a large file on a slow server because of pictures on it, if you want to try it go ahead but it will take a minute or so to open the file (even on a cable modem).