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Alright, cool I was thinking I messed it up for a while there! Today I was looking at it and it has almost no more krausen floating on top, you can still see the little bubbles coming up from the bottom though. Does that mean there is a problem? Also, is it okay to stir it up even though the...

Hello, I just started my first batch of mead a few days ago. It is bubbling but the honey and water are pretty separated so there is a thick layer of honey at the bottom of the carboy. On the top of the water there is a good layer of krausen and it looks like there is something similar down on...

Hello everyone, I brewed my first brew on the 4th and was going to bottle on the 25th. I have only looked at it a few times since then and today I went in to see how it is doing and there is a layer of foam on top still. Should I hold off bottling or is this normal? Shouldn't it be done fermenting?

I've been wanting an arduino kit for a while, I gotta ask, what do you monitor with it?

I did my first brew yesterday :D! I got the true brew k6 kit from my LHBS and a true brew amber ale recipe kit. I read in the kit that it only required a 6 quart pot so I bought an 8 quart thinking I was playing it safe. Lets just say i learned how to take apart the stove in the new apartment...

Okay, cool I won't worry about the secondary for a while, thanks!

Hello everyone, I just got my first kit, a true brew k6. The kit instructions say to brew in the carboy for a week or until fermentation stops and then bottle, could i brew in my bottling bucket as a primary then switch to the carboy as a secondary? Would my brew benefit from this? Thanks!

Thank you all for clarifying that for me! :mug:

Hello, I understand why bittering hops are added toward the beginning and why aromatic hops are added at the end, but are the two interchangeable? One of my home brew books says that hops like willamette and cascade are aromatic. Then it says hops like chinook and northern brewer are bittering...

Thanks! :mug:

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I have been looking for a coupler like this for a while, where did you find the parts list for this? Or did you make one based on the pictures?

Yes sir! I was waiting until I was old enough before I got a better setup, and while I was waiting I got bored with Mr.Beer. But now I'm back for more!

That is correct, I was under 21 in high school.

When brewing from extract like in this post https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/beginner-extract-brewing-howto-99139/ do you need to add sugar?

What would you choose to start out with? Mr.Beer, Coopers Microbrewery Kit or a different setup? I had a Mr.Beer kit in high school and I am trying to get back into brewing. Mr.Beer was pretty easy to do, I am looking for something with more steps. I don't know too much about Coopers and I have...

Hmmm, what about something like coopers carbonation drops or muntons carbonation tablets? Are those literally just sugar pellets that still require yeast or could those fully carbonate anything without adding any yeast? Thanks for the quick responses!

If you force carbonated and put them in sealed glass bottles, would the head space without co2 ruin the taste of the beer or the amount of carbonation? Or would it be a reasonable alternative to natural carbonation with yeast?

Has anyone ever had any experience with the carbonator cap? (shown here http://www.midwestsupplies.com/the-carbonater.html) I was wondering if I could use this to force carbonate my homebrew in a two liter and then siphon it into individual glass bottles or would it lose its carbonation?