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drank one on the 9 day mark just so I can taste the difference it was very good, I was a little tipsy last night and contemplated drinking several of them.....I have to stay strong and wait the 3 weeks, it's tough though

they are sitting at room temp in the corner of the house, ill put them in my car for a couple hours I guess and let the sun warm them up I had one that was 3/4 filled, I just threw it in the fridge I'm gonna try just to check the progress, and so I know what beer that is opened too early...

I bottled exactly 8 days ago and tossed in the priming sugar. I just went today to check on them, they seem incredibly flat. I don't know if you can tell if its carbonated without opening it. Should I see any signs of carbonation after 8 days?

it was funny how the whole day changed after the first beer was cracked.... it was like a formal training session for the first few hours. a beer gets cracked and everybody start scrambling for beers, including myself lol I went out to eat at fuddruckers later that night, I ordered a...

you've made one more batch then me but.... aren't you supposed to pitch the yeast before you add the water?

I loved bottling my first batch (yesterday) such a good feeling knowing I made this beer, I can't wait to take my first sip of the final product

I am planning on screwing up on purpose on my next few batches, just so I can see how different things effect the taste of the beer. I'm going to write down what I did wrong and what I did or didn't like about it, and eventually just take what I learn and make a super beer.

well, despite what I thought you guys were correct I decided to just leave it in the primary for 2 weeks and 5 days, I don't have a lot of free time so I did it a couple days shy of the standard 3 weeks I siphoned everything into another 5 gallon container and mixed the priming sugar...

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this is exactly what I did, I followed it to the T http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter6-5.html

crap, I did it with dry yeast wiki says thats no good is wiki right? also I don't think it was 100, I've done a lot of cooking in my day and have a pretty good idea of what temp to throw it in there, it was just kinda warm probably closer to 90 degrees

when I was in the air force we just used jet fuel to remove anything like that from the plane go get some diesel fuel, its pretty much identical to jet fuel, it will work much better then gasoline or wd-40 you could also try brake clean, its one of those things every mechanic has, and...

before I pitched the yeast, I read somewhere on howtobrew.com some directions for preparing the yeast I boiled a little sugar in a small amount of water, cooled it to about 100 degrees and mix the yeast in, I let it sit for about 30 minutes, apparently it activates it faster I have no idea...

sorry, im a little new at this but what is the point of doing this? all I see is you freezing yeast, why are you not just buying it when you need it?

lol, when I said I wouldn't have chunks in my beer, i didn't just say it, I stated it like I would die before I let anything other then liquid and gas in my bottle. I really really don't like failing, even if it is my first batch....sorry for the stress, I've never met a homebrewer that...

I have a racking cane ok maybe this is what I don't understand if the chunks are sitting at the bottom of the primary, when I siphon it to the secondary won't the chunks just come with it? I mean am I supposed to slowly move the cane down until it reaches the "chunk" zone and then stop...

how will these chunks dissapear from simply moving it to the secondary? I mean they will just get tranfered into the second batch and then to the bottle. They aren't just going to dissapear, its like pulp in OJ....not quite that thick, but you get the idea I think I might just cut the...

I don't trust myself transfering into the secondary fermentor on my first batch. Its been in the primary for two weeks now I went to take a gravity ready from the spigot, and there are lots of small particles floating around in the beer, I really really do not want this stuff in my bottles...

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^ I googled them and came up with nothing how much do you pay for bottles if you don't mind me asking, I realize I may not get the same price, just looking at what it could potentially cost, because I don't see a brewery in my future if it costs anywhere close to 44 cents a bottle.