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I have 1/2 ounce each of Kent Goldings and Mt. Hood and some dry yeast, I was thinking about picking up some wheat LME and making this: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f70/simple-hefeweizen-186432/ This would be the first recipe I haven't used a kit for, looks like a quick and simple way to...

I know stuckage isn't a word. :drunk: Left in the basement for 3 weeks, which admittedly got too cold as time went on. Started at 64 degrees but got really cold here and got down to 59-60. I brought it upstairs where it's 72 degrees but should I even bother waiting for it to drop further or...

I'm brewing a brown ale tomorrow morning, if I make a starter when I get home from work that gives it only about 16 hours instead of 24... should I even bother with a starter if I don't have a full 24 hours to devote to it? I'm assuming it wouldn't hurt anything, just wouldn't give the yeast...

If so I'll need to come up with plan B quickly, my kit arrives today and I really don't have any other place to do it. The rest of the house stays around 72 degrees.

My first brewing experience was a batch of cider, which I ended up using british ale yeast for and it came out tasting a bit yeasty/beery for cider. Still drinkable. My first beer brewing experience was my last batch, American Pale Ale from Brewer's Best. It came out with a bitter, grainy dry...

I've been washing them in the dishwasher without soap and with heated dry. My buddy said that should get hot enough to sanitize them if I bottle right after they come out. Guess it's too early to tell if that's true or not, I've only bottled twice but I haven't detected problems yet. I may...

Bottled my first batch of beer yesterday, and American Pale Ale from BB. Here are the mistakes I made: I had to move the fermenting bucket across my basement to facilitate bottling, which stirred up some of the trub/sediment which transferred to my bottling bucket and into some of the...

I'm a noob at this, my second batch is an American Pale Ale that has been in the primary for a little over a week now. Took a gravity measurement and it's down to where it should be. The instructions just say to bottle after fermentation has stopped unless you rack to secondary, then it's a...

It's an American Pale Ale kit I bought at the local HBS. I think I have everything I need. Any last minute tips, advice or words of encouragement to get me started? I made cider but it came out tasting more like apple wine since I decided not to carbonate it. Now I'm ready for BEER! :rockin:

I've seen a few people on here mention that the quality of ingredients in some kits are suspect. I don't really want to make a mediocre beer on my first attempt and I already have all the equipment I'll need. Should I get a kit or just pick up the ingredients for a simple extract recipe...

Hello all, seems like a good community to shoot the shat about beer, drinking, cleaning up messes and sweet sweet inebriation. I picked up some equipment Saturday and yesterday started my first batch. I decided on cider both since fall is coming and I wanted to try something easy for my first...