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I bet you'll be fine. btw, I bottled mine this morning. I think it's 6 or 7 weeks old now and clear as can be. I did 9 Grolsch bottles with 1 carbonation tab each, 5 1 liter bottles with 3 tab each, and the remaining is gonna bet still -- 'bottled' in the original apple juice jugs. I'm...

I followed the recipe exactly too and mine cleared very quickly -- maybe 3 weeks. I've taken a few samples and it's quite tasty. Mine's been in the carboy for 6 or 7 weeks now and I'm bottling this weekend. I have not taken a single gravity reading, but I'll take one this weekend at bottling...

Mine is 5 weeks old and I have been drawing off 'samples' for about 1.5 weeks. It's really great stuff. I have about 4.5 gallons left and plan on bottling all of it next weekend (6 weeks old). I also plan of starting another batch as soon as the carboy is clean.

This is my first batch and I had maybe a 10 oz sample last night. I think it's super without being carbonated. I tasted it both room temperature and chilled. Chilled, it's very refreshing. That said, I will bottle sometime in the next 4 weeks and I plan on carbonating a few 16 oz bottles...

You talked me right into it. Gosh its GOOD! I really enjoy a dry drink and this is probably the driest I've had. Delicious. Now all I have to worry about is what damage may I have done by introducing room air into the better bottle -- I had to remove the airlock in order for the sample top...

I've been wondering the same thing about my batch. If I remember correctly, today makes 4 weeks since I put my together and I'm still getting a little bit of bubbling. I sure would like to draw off a sample to taste.....

Mine sure smelled like a big ol' poot, even to the point of my wife complaining when she opened the guest room closet (where I have the carboy). Now, 18 or so days into it, very little smell -- even though it's still bubbling.

I made my first batch of this on 5/25 (17 days ago). It's in a Better Bottle -- the kind with a spigot at the bottom. Would it be reasonable to open that spigot to take a sample? If it matters, my airlock is the Better Bottle Dry Air Lock -- I don't even know if the spigot would drain without...

Yes, I have more space than that. Those (on page 1) are 5 gallon carboys, I think. Mine is 6.5 gallons. So I basically have 1.5 gallons of space above the surface of the juice. That's what I was thinking on the bottles, thanks for confirming.

I mixed up my first batch of this today and have 2 questions (to start with, anyhow).... 1) I used a 6.5 gallon Better Bottle carboy, meaning I have lots of space left between the juice and the airlock. Is that an issue? 2) I plan on carbonating some of it and having the rest still. I...

Thanks, y'all! I'll keep boiling 60 minutes. And rather than bottle this weekend in the rainy weather, I think I'll make a batch of Afelwein :)

I've made a few extract kits from Midwest Supplies and they've turned out better than I'd hoped for. Yesterday, for fun, I re-watched the Alton Brown Good Eats episode on brewing beer. He makes an extract brew and he brews the wort for 10 minutes. My kits have all said 60 minutes. What...

:) ok, i'll just order some proper ingredients and have it 2 weeks later :) thanks very much for the input!

I'd like to try this, and the sooner the better. Say I didn't want to make the 2 hour round trip to local home brew supply place, nor wait on mail order ... I have a pack a dry Munton's brewing yeast that came with an ale kit, and I have a pound of DME. How do you think that would do...

lostspring, what did you end up doing? how did it turn out? I may be making a kit this weekend and it has the Wyeast propagator but I won't be able to make a starter simply because I won't know until the last minute if I'm gonna have time to brew or not. I might just pitch the dry yeast that...

Thanks, y'all. I'll probably do #2 -- I have another recipe kit in the basement begging to be made so I could use the primary for that. Thanks again.

Okay, it's decision time. Tomorrow should make 3 days of identical hydrometer readings and now I have to decide what to do. Right? I will have some time Friday and Saturday. This trappist ale will have been in the primary 13 days this coming Saturday. Would you move it secondary? Or...

It seems like the general consensus on using a secondary is that there is no consensus, so I thought I'd post the specifics of my second batch to solicit opinions on the use of a secondary for it. It's a trappist ale kit from Midwest and it's going good. I used the WL500 yeast and after 2...

Thanks for the help!

4 days ago I made my second batch ever. It's a trappist ale kit from Midwest. The recipe is: 6 lb. Pilsen liquid malt extract 1 lb. Clear Belgian candi sugar 8 oz. Caramel 40°L 8 oz. Carapils specialty grains 3 oz. of hops I upgraded to the WL500 yeast. I brewed this on the spur of...