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Safale US-05

It's my fourth brew and first in several months. I brewed this five days ago and its been fermenting nicely. I noticed a bunch of crap along ths sides though - this is probably normal but still not sure. I don't necessarily remember seeing this before during fermentation, but it does seem like...

+1 = 390 When I set it on top of the bucket I knew it was a bad idea and would roll off if I bumped into it....well I ignred that voice in my head.

Thanks for the response to my original question and the recipe. That recipe is a lot simpler. Is that recipe for a partial boil? This will be my thrid batch and I'm doing full boils - just curious if I need to reduce the bittering hops at all.

I've been searching for a APA extract recipe to make with little success. I found a recipe on HBT that got great reviews but it's all grain. Since I didn't come across an extract recipe (mostly just people posting recipes they made and asking if they looked good) I thought I'd try to convert...

This is for a full boil, correct? I want to make sure I poout the right amount of hops.

Well, this thread gave me relief, and I picked up a new acronym. I'd seen that before, but never looked it up. Yes, no homebrew soon, but in a couple of months, football + homebrew....mmmmmm.

Making sure. I thought so. Thanks guys. :mug:

I'm 36 hours in with zero airlock activity. I know there's a sticky at the top explaining it can take 72 hrs, I know Revvy has a well-written response to those like me who start to freak out a bit at the sign of no airlock activity, but I can't help but worry. First homebrew and realize in...

I was doing my first home brew Sunday night and the wife walked up with a bad look on her face and said "that smells awful" and walked off. I guess it's a good thing I was brewing outside.

Thanks - I've seen that before but forgot about the temperatrue making a difference. My temp was likely too high, though the link suggests my OG was even higher than what I measured, so I may be evn further off than I thought. It was an extract. I steeped 24oz of grain 25 minutes before bringin...

I brewed the AHS Cream Ale last night. Baby #2 is coming Friday so I got the first batch in just in time. I'm anxious to do a pale ale or IPA...hopefully I can find the time soon. So it was an enjoyable process. After doing a batch, I think a lot of what I'm reading will start connect...

The cream ale came with a choice of a White Labs Cream Ale Blend WLP080, White Labs California Ale V WLP051, Wyeast American Ale II, or the Nottingham. When searching for something for my first brew, I came across a couple posts on cream ale where people talked about how much they liked the...

Title says it all - just finished brewing and realized I don't know the ideal fermentation temp. I've read through the instructions but the only temperature references I see are for how much to cool the wort (to 80 degrees before adding cool water on a partial boil), and references to the liquid...

I hope I'm adjusting correctly. This is my first time so I have my doubts considering the OG is so much higher and it calls for a 40% reduction in bittering hops (20-30% seemed to be more normal from searches I've done). The only parts I thought I could have gotten wrong were the malts used - I...

I'm doing a cream ale kit for my first home brew. The directions are for a partial boil but I plan to do a full boil. I plugged the recipe in the hopville beer calculus program and to get the same IBUs it appears I need to reduce the bittering hops (1 oz Williamette 4.7 AAU) by 40%. Based on...

I'm doing my first batch tomorrow (AHS Cream Ale) with a full boil. As I understand it, I need to start off with about 6 gallons though this somewhat depends on the shape/siz of pot (I think mine is fairly standard - 14.5 in diameter that came with turkey fryer). What I don't understand is what...

I just finished getting all the equipment I needed this week, and plan to brew my first batch this weekend, so I don't have a deep history you can benefit from but I recently made the decision myself. For me the main deciding factor was the footprint - I could either have a large upright freezer...

Yeah, I have no problem with a bucket and will likely go that route in the near-term mainly to keep costs down. I guess I'd just prefer to have one carboy as a primary so I can see the fermentation process (not to mention have that carboy go unused when a secondary is not needed).