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This is my 3rd batch and this time I'm brewing a Brewers Best Imperial Pale Ale kit. It had 8.3 lbs of extract and I brewed 5 full gallons. I put the beer in the 6.5 gallon fermenter last night around 6pm. I came home just now and when I checked on it, there was beer everywhere and the bucket...

This may be dumb question. My 1st homebrew batch has been in bottles now for almost 5 weeks. Its not bad, but it is very light-bodied. It was an American Amber kit from Brewers Best. I'm doing batch #2 tomorrow which is a Brewer's Best English Pale Ale. Comparing the 2 recipes, the AMerican...

I can't get rid of the beer smell in my fermenting bucket. Does this even matter? Of course I'm going to sanitize before using again, but I thought I'd ask.

It turns out I did indeed screw up my first brew. I brewed it on Saturday. It turns out I did not put enough malt extract in the boil. I was supposed to put dry extract and liquid extract in but I only put in the liquid (in Napoleon Dynamite voice: "Idiot!"). It was bubbling in the fermentor...

I'll start off by saying thanks for all the quick replies to my other posts. This board is awesome and addictive. It just might get me fired because I couldnt resist reading it at work today. Anyway, I'm only on day 3 of my first batch, but I'm already wondering about my second batch. I'm...

I started my first batch of homebrew today using a kit from Brewers Best, the American Amber. I thought I followed the directions pretty closely, but my starting gravity was super-low! Around 1.02. Any ideas what went wrong and is this batch ruined? Thanks for any advice in advance Brandon