Hi, I'm new here and HOPEFULLY not repeating something I didn't find. My friend and I have been working on making an extract homebrew to our liking, and I'm having trouble finding pointers on the way we do it. Sooo, I guess I'll try to just do a quick listing of how we do it and see about good pointers. We boil up our water (5 gallons bottled) in a large pot, add 5 pounds of regular white cane sugar, mix it in and pour in a pickling crock. Then we add in our malt extract and stir it all up. Let it sit until it cools down to temperature that the refrigerated dry yeast says it will survive at, and add the yeast. Then we cover it and let it work for approximately a week (or thereabouts when we think it's not working as much). Bottle it up and let it finish in the bottles for approx 4 weeks. Looking forward to start adding hops and flavorings to toy with soon, but posting in hopes for anyone that has brewed like this to give any thoughts and/or pointers. Thanks.