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I'll be bottling my American Cream Ale and throwing some vanilla beans in my porter today.

How do you test it to see if it's still accurate?

I did 5 gallons of cream ale and my first 5 gallons of cider. Both were happily bubbling away within 24 hours. Going to brew 5 gallons of vanilla porter this sunday.

Bottling my American Light ale this week and will brew a cream ale this weekend. Might try a batch of cider, too

I'm still doing extract kit brews and can't do one for under $50. $7 for bottled water, $10 on ice to cool the wort, plus the cost of the kit...but i bought a wort chiller today, so that'll save cash in the long run.

Got 2 more Ale Pails from Midwest Supply and a Brew Belt last week. Now I'll be able to do 3 batches at once! Can't wait to bottle and taste the chocolate bock. Moved the fermenter down to the basement Sunday to let it sit in the cold a while before I bottle it this weekend.

5 gallons American Cream Ale 5 gallons Chocolate Bock 1812 gallons

Might want to bribe someone into helping bottle

Since it's almost impossible to brew without tossing back a few, isn't that calling in sick to drink??

When looking at a house, the biggest deciding factor is a second kitchen in the basement that would be perfect for brewing......

My Brewer's Best American Cream Ale is just a hair under 6%, and it's not watered down at all. Fairly strong flavor, actually. A month in the fermenter and 3 weeks in the bottle so far.

the chocolate bock is alive! MUAHAHAHAHA!!

Oh, I'm not giving up. I really want this one to turn out, because it smelled so dang good during and after the boil!

I'm hoping the reading was off because of the cocoa powder I added to the boil. Whatever the problem, I'll wait and see how it turns out. If it doesn't ferment, I'll try again.

haha, i meant pee break. But something went horribly awry. My OG was suppossed to be 1.064, but it turned out 1.082. This could be interesting.......

crap! no boil to boil over in the span of a pea break!

Yep, so far everything has turned out great. Can't wait to crack open the first bottle of my second batch here in a week or two to see how it turned out.

Wow, that smoked porter is a tasty beer! Bought the kit for a European Bock last night. Didn't know it's suppossed to be a lager. Oops. Guess I'll be brewing it as an ale. A Chocolate Bock Ale.

Been over 2 months, and my first batch (the smoked porter) is ready to drink. Very yummy! But it'll be another 2-3 weeks for the second batch to age, and I'm brewing the third batch tomorrow........Gotta brew more often.

I think we all make more broken glass bottling our own over time than a couple rare cases that make it past a brewery's QC department....