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I know I'm in the minority and you'll hear a lot of "you'll get cat piss", but I have used the following recipe 4 times now and each time its come out as an awesome beer: Target OG: 1.063 Target FG: 1.014 7.2 SRM 59.6 IBU 5.75 gallon DMASH 13 lbs Maris Otter (I've also used 2-row here...

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I just sampled one and it doesn't taste bad (just warm which isn't my favorite temp for beer), kinda sweeter than I would have imagined though. Serious head on this beer - 1/2 glass of head in a normal non-beer dishwashered glass. It even held 1/4" of head for 15 minutes while I tried to smell...

So my 2nd brew (Midwest Cherry wheat extract kit) hit the magic 3 week mark in the bottles and I wanted to put a few in the fridge to try out (especially since I'm starting to run low on my first brew). This batch was my first time trying a secondary and first time reusing old beer bottles (not...

The cherry wheat brewing went pretty well yesterday. Unfortunately, my OG was a bit low (1.037 when I wanted to be around 1.042-1.046), but it was already down to 72F, so I pitched and let it ride. I was able to bring down the temp from boil to 72F in 46 mins using my 1/4" immersion chiller and...

So my first brew day went pretty well and my Irish Red ale from Midwest is going into bottles tomorrow (14 days in the primary, consistent gravity reading for 4 days), so I figured its about time to get another beer going. I have a few extract kits to choose from in my basement, but I'm thinking...

Glad to hear yours is working out! As so many people have said, it seems like its hard to screw up beer. My 2 other kits are both from Midwest - one is their Black Dog Ale and the other is their Cherry Wheat. Not sure which ill make first. I'm also looking at an oak aged stout, an imperial...

Don't get me wrong, I really want to brew another and I have a total of 5 carboys available, but I want to make sure everything goes well on the first one. I'll probably leave it for another week or so then bottle. We'll see how long after that I get until I start another one :) What all is...

It smells amazing, tastes pretty good for no carbonation (at least I cant pick out any off flavours), but looks like swamp water in a glass hahaha. If it's not a problem to bottle after only 9-10 days in the fermenter (recipe calls for 14), then I may give it a go this week (gotta take a couple...

Just took a gravity reading about 6 days, 20 hrs after it went into the fermenter and I got 1.012 @66.2F (Adjusted to 1.012 @ 68F for hydrometer calibration). It's definitely reach the FG range listed in the instructions (1.010-1.012), but its still pretty cloudy, so I'm going to leave it for...

Just to give you a rough idea where mine is (since we started it on the same day), my krausen dropped down to 0 at some point overnight between Wednesday and Thursday. I changed out my blowoff tube for an airlock and I'm still getting fairly consistent bubbling. I'm planning on taking a...

Using an online calculator to adjust for reading temperature, I came in at 1.042 (lower end of the recipes 1.041-1.046). I ended up splitting the LME into 2/3 pre boil and 1/3 with 15 mins left based on what I had read on the forum (I was a bit too gun shy to use more LME later in the boil), but...

Crazy... I brewed my first batch on Sunday using the same kit as you. It took 6-8 hours to get some activity in the primary and its still got a 1" head of foam going with bubbles every second or two in the blowoff container. Its been sitting in a swamp cooler around 64-66 with ambient temp of...