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Recipe: Munton's Nut Brown kit .25lb roasted malt steeped for half hour .75lb Krystal malt steeped for half hour 3lb krystal DME 11g kit yeast 11g Safeale ale yeast Fermentation was VIGOROUS at 18hrs post pitch IG: 1.057 Kit indicated that the FG would be around 1.010 - 1.008...

its only been in the bottle for a week today. I had one last night so I could compare it to the finished product in mid October. (learning experience) it was pretty darn good!! Good solid head, not overcarbbed. Medium body with a nice hop finish. It's floc'ed out well and I know it will...

I pitched last Monday. I've had NO bubbling and a steady SG reading for the last 3 days. I took my fermenter out of the 70* swamp cooler and brought it downstairs to rack to my bottling bucket. While getting everything sanitized, I caught a bubble blurp up in the airlock. I think its just...

smells great! No infections! OG: 1.040 Currently 1.010 at 68* Today is bottling day according to the LHBS's instructions. I'm going to let it sit till at least Monday before bottling. Color is a very nice golden. Good head retention in the test tube. Gonna drink the sample and see...

I'm probably going to get flamed for this. But oh well. This was NOT done for the same reasons that "beginner" did in the DIY forum for those who read this kid's post. This was done to test the process for brewing/fermenting I bought some organic fresh squeezed apple juice, and some...

I put it in a swam cooler w/ a T-shirt over the top. Just checked it with a sanitized digital remote aquarium thermometer. 68* haven't been able to ice it since last night (flew all day), gonna re-ice it before bed. Fermentation down to 12 BPM Prolly gonna take a SG reading tomorrow AM.

its 80*!!!! Should I DEFINITELY make a swamp cooler?

Just got a bare bones kit. All is washed and sanitizing. After my Bass Club meeting, I'll start brewing. Cooper's Lager DME 1lb corn sugar 1lb light pilsen malt (subbing for a lb of the sugar :cool:") I only have an 11qt pot. SOOO I'm going to boil in 2gal of water and put 3 gal of...

FlyinBrewer here, aka Kevin. My pop used to brew his own till he got on the wagon. I have several buddies that are brewing and I've gotten the itch. Gonna get my kit probably tomorrow.:rockin: