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So I went to the local Midwest and got three kits on the 1776 deal. I was told that yeast did not come with the kits. I bought three came home and online it said it did come with yeast. I sent an email to the company as the service also was terrible. I give them huge credit. They contacted...

Just to let you know they do not come with yeast. I ran over and picked up three today but there is no yeast in them. The guy at the store says that is how they keep the price down.

My wife and I were just at a local cider Brewer and they had a Apple shandy cider. My wife loved it and wants me to make some. I asked and they told me they are using lemon juice but that was all I got. So I wonder how much to use and when should it go in? Any thoughts?

I went over and picked up two of these kits yesterday - the Pale Ale and the Stout. From my research and talking to the guys there at Midwest these seems like too good of a deal. I am adding a few of my own touches on to the recipes but at this price you can not beat it. I hope to have these...

I am working on my experimental Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter. I racked it over to another fermenter (after sitting in the primary for two weeks) and added more Jiff Chocolate Peanut Butter powder. Later that day I looked in on it and there was what looked to be a full krausen. That was...

Can I ask what you think is expensive? I just bought from a local brew store a brown ale kit for $27 to do a 5 gallon batch. That does not seem bad to me. What are you paying?

Two weeks in and the FG shows it to be done. I took a taste and it is not bad. Very dry which I expected. This never did create a krausen but it obviously fermented so I guess it worked. Since this was so cheap to make now I want to use this recipe to play around with and add some...

I let the frozen can sit out on the counter until it was thawed. I would say the wort temp was in the low 60's when I pitched the yeast. The yeast was a half packet I had used in a beer batch just 4 days prior (stored in the fridge) and that beer batch is fermenting fine. My fermenter...

Hello all, I am kind of new beer brewer with a few batches under my belt and a couple kit cider batches complete as well. I have read online about people doing cider out of store brand apple juice and wanted to try it. I bought apple juice that said from concentrate and there are no...