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Anyone have ingredients or instructions for a extract brew. This stuff is awesome btw. This is from their website. No idea how to translate it though. ""A flame throwin’ Rye IPA ignited by a 25% shot of rye malt and capped by a booty hoppin’ blast of Mt Hood and Centennial hops...

I did my second Brewer's Best kit and bottled today. I understand that you generally lose some beer when siphoning before and after fermentation. Both times though it has been about 6-8 bottles short of their stated "53 12 oz bottles" on the side of the box. Am I making a big deal out of...

Got antsy Sunday night and brewed up a nice Pumpkin spice kit. Put it in the carboy in a closet under the stairs. I'm out of town this week, but my wife informed me that the cap came off and it exploded everywhere. Walls, carpet, all the stuff that is in the closet. Any advice on how to...

Brewed a pumpkin and put it in the carboy with a 3 stage airlock. Put it in a closet and came back a day later. It had exploded everywhere. Re-sanitized and re-capped. It exploded again. Any hints? Also, how do you clean that wasted gold off the walls? It took a couple hours for me to...

I got a Brewer's best kit (5 gallon batch) and started brewing. I lost some of the wort during transfer to the carboy and then lost even more moving it into my bottling bucket. I added in the priming sugar mix and then the wort on top of that. When the mix was complete is was about 3.5 - 4...

If I put a sanitized muslin bag and rubber band on the end of my auto-siphon when moving the wort from the carboy to the bottling bucket to avoid bringing debris, do I risk the muslin bag aerating the brew? I wouldn't think so since it's all submerged, but wanted to check. Thanks!

First Post. Brand new to home brewing. College roommate got me into it, so I grabbed a starter kit from my LHBS and a English Brown kit and went to town. So far I think I'm doing well. It's in a windowless closet a week into primary. Had a very active first 72 hours and has died down...