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I posted this in the beginner forum but no replies. Hopefully someone can help... So I brewed the Brewers Best Oktoberfest kit on Thursday night which is my first lager. Everything else I've done are either ale kits or ale recipes. Making it was smooth as butter: boil/cool/aerate/pitch. OG was...

Brewed the Brewers Best Oktoberfest kit which is my first lager. Everything else I've done are either ale kits or ale recipes. So everything was smooth as butter: boil/cool/aerate/pitch. OG was right on point: 1.053. So I pitched the Brewferm dry lager yeast at around 11pm Thursday. After...

I've actually just bottled batch #3 but my first has been very popular both with friends both on drinkability and pop culture reference for my generation. I'm officially "addicted" to the hobby...thanks all for the help/tips along the way. Here's to many more...

I'm planning on brewing tonight so I grabbed all my ingredients earlier this week from LHBS...and yesterday AM when I activated my Wyeast 2565 I noticed the date was 5/29/12...more than 7 months old! WTF!! When I came home from work last night (10 hrs after smacking and shaking the hell out of...

I know there are alot of threads out there (read a ton already) on cold crashing. I still have a few questions since I'm about to bottle my first batch, an Amber ale. 1. It's been sitting in primary bucket for 2.5 weeks now. Bottling day would be later this week...should I spend the last few...

So my starter kit came with both a fermenting bucket and 5 gal glass carboy as a secondary. After reading many posts by veterans, I've decided to bypass secondary and leave my batch in primary for 3 weeks. That leaves my 5 gal carboy sitting there...so I'm thinking I'd like to use that as...

Been playing around with some rudimentary logos...anyone like either of these? You can be honest, won't hurt my feelings! :)

Brewed my first batch Late Thursday night - a Brewers Best American Amber extract kit (partial). Followed steeping and boiling to a T...cooled in ice bath for 30 min then poured into primary bucket (through a fine strainer to catch trub) to aerate. I noticed I had boiled off a good amount so...