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Patience has never been a virtue of mine, but i will wait. I'll keep updating my progress.

My recipe was simple, i took the advice of the man at the beer store and used festa brew, which basically lets you skip everything up until fermenting. You get your wort in a big thick plastic bag and poor it into your sanitized bucket and sprinkle your yeast on top and let it go. I boiled a...

Being as i am mentally slow i forgot to take an O.G. The first packet of yeast was safbrew s-33, when i didnt think it was going to start fermenting i added a 1/4 packet of windsor brewing yeast and stirred it in which caused an eruption of foam. After about 2 and 1/2 days of crazy bubbles, i...

Well this really is a comedy of idiocy, i just checked my hydrometer and of course i read the wrong side, its still at 1.020, but its been at 1.020 for at least 3 days now. My fermentation stopped in three days and has been holding at 1.020 ever since. I did prime the bottle with sugar last...

I posted a really long paragraph the first time out so im gonna keep this shorter and cleaner. I've been trying to brew a festabrew double oatmeal stout. Followed the directions and screwed up left and right. my fermentation stopped, and i added more yeast, it started for twenty minutes and...

Hey all. Im very new to this game called homebrewing. I've had friends with the mr beer home brewing kits and i've always wanted one. So last thursday i went to the closest beer and wine brewing store and bought myself all the needed stuffs for a beginner. The guy there recommended using festa...