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Agree! Making 23L worth of beer will pretty much be my upper limit for a batch :) Fortunately, it was a low gravity beer so I don't think it created a lot of foam during fermentation that could have clogged the airlock. My next batch will be a 5 gallon and it looks to be a medium gravity beer...

The bucket cost 4$ but did not include the lid, which was 2$ extra. Since I will only use it for bottling beers, I took the bucket only and drilled a hole at the bottom to insert a spigot and bottling wand, bought at the homebrew store. The bucket is a standard 5 gallon, so I had to do the...

Thanks! Indeed it is a good bedtime read but I think it will be very helpful for future brews, since I tried to write down every observation I made during the process.

This is my very first homebrew! When I went to my LHBS the guy suggested to start with a kit so I can get used to the very basic of homebrewing before starting to try mix with malt extract and hops. I wanted a red beer and his suggestion was the Coopers English Bitter. I created a journal at...

I'm brewing a brown ale, but it has glimpse of red and I especially love these beers during fall/winter. I tasted an English beer that looks similar, color-wise, at an Irish pub in Montreal: a Boddingtons cream ale. It has subtle taste of chocolate and coffee in mouth, has a nice and light...

Hello everyone. My name is Alex and I am from Montreal, Quebec. For many months I was sporadically thinking about starting to homebrew but was busy all day at work and on the weekends. And then, a few weeks ago at Costco, my girlfriend poked at me when she saw a beer starter kit for 25$. Had no...