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The one thing I wish I had right off the start was a large boil pot. Boils are extremely messy and a large pot will prevent the mess if you get distracted during the boil.

I have done 3 brewers best kits, they all have turned out better than expected. Great kits to learn on for sure.

Thanks for the info. I am still "new" this scene so I am sure some of my measurements could be a bit off. I am not going to worry about the readings for now, I am sure I will still get a decent brew. I have done about 5 5 gallon kits before this. This was 2 kits put together that I changed...

Yes, I ran them through my crusher.

The temp got a little high on me for about the first 5 min it was 165 but I got it down to about 158 for the rest of the time. 20min total boil on the grains...should I have gone a bit longer?

Finally got to use my new bayou burner and 40 qt kettle out on the deck this weekend to make 10 gallons of "generic" pale ale. Ingredients: 12lbs light LME 2lbs light DME 16 oz caraplis grain 16 oz carmel grain 1 oz Columbus hops 4 oz Amarillo hops 2 oz Amarillo for dry hopping...

This is a great idea. I think I just found a weekend project to get all of my Grolsch bottles out of my old beat up cardboard wine boxes.

Thanks for the link...great read :mug:

I googled "best home brew forum"

My name is Josh and I am from upstate NY area and new to the home brew scene. This is my first non automotive related forum I have joined and I hope to find some good information on here. I have a fairly basic 5 gallon set up that was a hand me down from my father that used to brew years ago...