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Just tell them that the smell of boiling wort is the smell of freedom.

The bottles Mr.Beer provides are OK but the standard 2 liter coke bottle is better. Clean them with the onestep stuff add 1 1/2 tablespoons of sugar, pour the beer into the bottle at an angle (the bottle not the beer), cap and wait 2 week then lager for a couple of weeks. I personally didn't...

Give it 14 days in the keg, then 14 days in the bottles, 14 days or more to lager.

Yes, I mean refrigeration. Each recipe has a slightly different lagering/refigeration time. Mr.Beer seems to get a bad rap as not being a real beer or kit but it makes some really good beer without havivg to buy expensive stuff. It is beer made easy.

2 weeks in primary, 2 weeks in the bottle (secondary in my book) 2-4 weeks (call it 3) lagering then try it. I have done about 6 different brew through my Mr.Beer kit and these numbers work well fo me. Some brews need more lagering time.

Do not dump it. Give it a full 14 days to ferment then another 14 in secondary fermentation then 3 or 4 weeks lagering in the refrigerator per the instructions. Mr. Beer kits mixes need to be lagered to get rid of the cidery taste.

I got a Black Tower English Dark Ale in the fermentor right now and a West Coast Pale Ale in 2nd fermentation and a Blueberry Bock in the frig lagering.

Let it lager in the frig a week or two more and it might take away some of the bitter taste. It looks good . What type is it?

My wife gave me a Mr. Beer kit for Christmas a couple of years ago but I've only recently started making beer. The first was the Derailment Porter and it turned out to be very good. The second was the Honey Brown Ale, it's ok but not my type of beer but my brothers like it. I'm working on a...