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Awesome. Thanks. I figured the yeast would be useless at this point, but I hoped the grains would still be fine, they're sealed up. I dont really have a brew shop anywhere conveniently close to me. I was going to head down to the bulk food store where in the past I picked up my corn sugar...

Hey there... last year my wife had got me a BBS kit. I brewed their IPA, and the chestnut brown ale, both with great results (even though I added the hops in the wrong order with the IPA). I have two more BBS kits laying around, and they've been around for a year or so. So the question...

I drank another one last night. Almost two weeks from the initial beer I had that I thought tasted like honey a bit still. I didn't really notice the honey in this one. I'm sure the extra time had alot to do with that. It's been bottled 4 weeks now. Definitely over carbonated for me...

You guys are the best! This place is the best!! No... wait... Beer is the best!! You guys understand right?! :mug:

Awesome! Thanks guys. So basically, if I was to use corn sugar, 72 degrees, English Brown ale, and one gallon.. I'm going to to just disolve 19.85 grams of the corn sugar into water, add the beer, then bottle, similar to how I'm using honey right now?

So in a one gallon batch such as these BBS kits, how much would I use?

So just an update here... Last weekend I consumed my first bottle of my first ever homebrew... the BBS Everyday IPA... and I must say, even though I had the hops mix up I mentioned back in the original post, the beer still tasted damn fine to me! I am however curious to order another of...

Well, it's actually about 6 and a half or bit less than half. Although with what I spilt getting the siphon going, and what I left behind in the fermenter, maybe I could have gotten close to filling that 7th. I was only filling them to just a bit into the neck too. If that. So the ones...

So I did my bottling tonight. Had a little spill here and there with the damn siphon that came with the kit. Going to have to invest in something better there. What a PITA that was. My first bottle is going to have some excess sediment. I had it buried in the trub apparently. Oops! Ended...

Yeah, thanks. The room they're going in is around 68-70 typically. I just meant I'd put them in a cooler as a way to contain them if there is an accident so there's not a nasty mess to clean up. I've got some of those swing top bottles to use for my bottling, so hopefully nothing bad...

Thanks! It's been fun so far, can't wait to taste it, no matter how awful I might have made it lol I'll update this when I finally get aroudn to drinking it!

Awesome information in the whole reply. Thanks for all of that. The little bit of bubbling thats happening right now is very minor. very tiny, almost impossible to see little bubble once in a while. Other than that, its a nice color, looks good, the sediment at the bottom appears to be...

Would this be a good choice? http://www.morebeer.com/products/beer-wine-hydrometer-correction-scale.html

Thanks for the reply. I don't presently have a hydrometer. I've been reading around here and other websites about how useful they can be, so I was contemplating getting one. Sadly, my hometown doesn't really have a good store for purchasing any of this stuff, I'm relying on the internet...

Perfect! The little bit of slow tiny bubbling was making me worry, glad to hear I'm good to go! I'm still really mad at myself for messing up the hops! I still had enough to add them in every 15 minutes, just... half of what I should have! When I was upset about it on brewing day, I just...