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Umm...it's a stout. came in a box from the beer wine and cheese store near my house--do you need to know the whole recipe? I don't have it here with me.

Ahhh. Yes. I used the cheap sanitizer that came with the kit. The guy at the home brewery place told me not to do that but I'm kinda broke. I tried to rinse well, but I plan to go with the no-rinse sanitizer next time.

I was drinking my first home brew beer over the weekend, and I've realized, there's no head! It seems to be carbonated but...no head. Is head related to carbonation? What's the problem? Thanks!

It WAS a great feeling! Even better was when I gave the bottle to the person I was with and she drank some and smiled and said it tasted good:) I think maybe she was just saying that to make me happy, cause she actually doesn't like beer, but it sounded sincere and that felt good:) Gosh, it took...

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K everybody, I opened one early. One week early. Whomever it was who said that I would love my first beer no matter whatever it tasted like: you were right:) I love it:) think it tastes delicious:) I'm SO HAPPY:) I posted a picture of me and the beer here...

Nice!! Thanks for the advise. Obviously the yeasts in the wort are a bit more vigorous than the yeasts in my sourdough starter:)

Doesn't the airlock let enough gas escape to prevent the lid from blowing off? And when the lid blows off is it a mess? The lid blows off my sourdough starter all the time but the only evidence is a popping noise from the tupperware, and then the lid is loose:)

Does it ever happen that the wort blows off the lid of the fermenting bucket and makes a mess? When and why? And, if the bottles of beer were going to explode, when might that happen? Within days of bottling?

Yay!!! Good for you!!! I won't be opening my first brew for at least another week, and that just a sample. I hope mine will be good as yours:)

I have only done it once and I too was worried about the smell cause my family is not so tolerant of smells. My partner felt the smell was "ok" and "not too strong". I was so worried about it i was thinking about doing my first boil while they were out of the house. The smell went away quickly...

Ah--K. I'm pretty broke... no picture for me I guess:(

Oh, my hose is long enough! I don't know why I put the hose at the top of the carboy at first. I just...wasn't thinking. I have a lot to learn:)

By the way, when I said "is two weeks the bare minimum", I know that I'm allowed to do whatever I want but what I meant is, the bare minimum for like...the beer to be carbonated and be at least semi-ready in terms of taste. Hey, this is off topic (sorry this is bouncing around a lot!) but how do...

For commercial beers, I've never noticed the hoppy flavor going away after any specific period of time. But maybe I've never had a bottle of beer last so long in my fridge that I would know. I hate to see beer sit in the fridge for any longer than a week:)

If the hop flavors don't save, then how do the commercial brewers do it? What do they do to the beer to retain the hoppy flavor--scary preservatives or something?

Is 2 weeks like the bare minimum? In what way will the flavor improve if I wait longer? I'm not sure I can really wait another three weeks. I'm dying already. I have to know... Thanks for the help everybody!

omg, I know I'm going to think it's amazing:) I think I would love it if it tasted like poison. I was just wondering, if it's going to affect the taste, in what way? I know i won't have anything to compare it to, but will the taste be sharper than it would have been otherwise? This has been so...

This is my first experience brewing beer! I just bottled a week ago, so I have one more week to wait before I can drink. I can't wait!!! But I have a question. I made a lot of mistakes during this process--some of them I know of, and there are probably many more I don't. Here's one mistake...

I checked the gravity, it was right where the recipe said it would be. throughout the process I've had a ton of "what ifs" and "whys" in my head, I wanted to ask. I think the bottles are ok now, but I wasn't sure under what circumstances the bottles might explode (if I filled them too full...