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Update: Now with pictures and follow-up. :) So, tonight was going to be the night that I started my first all-grain beer. A couple weeks back, I ordered up everything for MysticMeads Raging Red (www.homebrewtalk.com/f65/raging-red-irish-red-ale-239188/). I had to make a hops and a yeast...

About 4 months ago, I poured 23 litres of apple juice into a bucket, added some yeast (it was a wine yeast, I forget which one), and put the lid on. My mother-in-law works at a juice processing plant, so we get free juice, but it's a very mild-flavoured commercial variety. 6 weeks later, I...

So, after having less than ideal carbonation on previous batches, I'm now having the opposite problem. I scraped the bottom of the fermenter about a week before bottling, and I also added a couple extra tablespoons of maple syrup. The gravity didn't change at all between scraping and bottling...

I'm wondering what the parameters are around storing bottled beer? So far I've just been keeping them in an enclosed corner of my basement, but the temperature there varies from 14-19 Celsius. I would also like to get into a rhythm where I can keep one or two bottles from each batch around for a...

I've got a brown ale (w/Nottingham yeast) that is approaching 7 weeks fermenting. I had not meant to leave it so long, but I've got a shortage of empty bottles. I've had poor luck with carbonation recently, which I'm currently attributing to using yeasts that required re-hydration (previously...

I bottled my latest batch on Thursday, and I was interested to see how it was developing, so I just opened a bottle. It had a very tiny amount of carbonation, and by the taste, seems to have most of it's bottling sugar. I know it will usually take two or more weeks to get to the proper level of...

Finally bottled the Pilsner last night (Festa Brew kit). I ended up not having enough clean bottles, so I had a few glasses of it to drink. Certainly it will be better when it has carbonated and left to mature a bit longer, but I'm really excited by the state it is in now. My palette isn't...

So I'm bottling this weekend, and I would like to get a new batch started. I'm still using the complete kits, probably I will go with another one from Festa Brew. I'm definitely tempted to try doing it from scratch, but I don't have the equipment or the time right now. Maybe next batch...

After much happiness with the red I made last time, I'm going to switch things up a bit. I picked a mexican cerveza, primarily because it was on sale, but also because I wanted to try something a bit lighter. So far, I'm brewing from kits where you just add water and yeast (which comes with...

This is my second batch, please excuse any misunderstandings. :) So my basement is hovering around 14-17 Celsius this winter, and I've got a Red Ale from a Brew House kit that's been on for 19 days. 5 days in the primary, 14 in the secondary, and according to the instructions, I should rack...