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Yes, I boiled about 2.5 gallons, which probably stayed about the same - might have gone up a bit with all the malt extract in there. I added some water to the fermenting bucket ahead of time and then topped it off with water to the 5 gallon mark, with lots of sloshing so I'd get the right...

I steeped the grains as per the directions for about 20 minutes. The hottest it got was probably 175 or so. I tried keeping it at 160, like the directions said. I didn't do any sparging. Didn't even squeeze out the bag, because of the tannins and stuff I'd read about. Just sort of picked it...

I just boiled my second brew tonight. My first brew gave me a bit of worry but seemed to turn out alright in the end - had some fruity overtones which maybe were the result of some bacteria, but everybody liked it and nobody got sick so I guess it was a success. I was hoping for this one to...

Thanks. This is only my second brew. I'm brewing in a bucket so it's hard to tell sometimes if there's activity. With the last brew (my first one), I had a very slow start, and then, for some reason, the yeast didn't finish the job. Someone told me I'd used the wrong kind for the high-sugar...

I'm new to the game. I bought a "Brewers Best" kit at the local homebrew store. The guy at the counter was kind of a ringer, working for the proprietor while he's on vacation. The guy welcome me with, "John's out 'til Tuesday; I don't really know anything about this stuff." So I'll ask the...

I'm a new brewer that just put my first batch into the fermenting bucket at midnight last Sunday. So, it's been about 8 days. The fermentation was a slow start, about 36 hours, but then things seemed to be going very well. OG was 1.055 which was right on the mark according to the recipe...