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I make a lot of brewers best kits, they make good beer. The only thing I change is to leave wort in primary for 2 weeks and secondary for 2 weeks before I bottle. Use a. Wort chiller if you have one and some Irish moss and you will have a tastes clear beer in about 6 weeks. Drinking a brewers...

I don't believe that it is cynical to look at my lhbs like that, they sell equipment and recipe kits to make money, that's why they are in business. I'm not saying that they do not help people with brewing because they do. But when it comes down to it, the more they sell the more they make. If...

The directions to these kits are good only for brewing, but as far as moving into a secondary or leaving in the primary they are terrible. The kits you buy want you to brew quick so that you can buy another kit and they can make more money. Leave in primary for at least 3 weeks and then move...

You could have a infected batch of beer on your hands.

Made the Oktoberfest with a bb recipe, this will be the first one that I brewed as a ale. Should lager this beer but we will see how it turns out.

Drinking a extract I made, bb amber ale

Just made a brewers best German Oktoberfest , will be ready in about 5 weeks. Even purchased a hb liter glass stein to drink it from. I will post to let you know how it turned out. Go beerfest.

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After you put your wort into the fermentor , you need to add water to bring it to the correct original gravity, this will usually bring your batch to around 5 gallons.

Can anyone suggest a good way of cooling the wort without the use of a chiller.

What type of yeast did you use. My kit came with a lager yeast , but the directions said it will work fine brewed as a ale. And also my kit only came with 1 kind of hopps 2 willamette

Thanks, I appreciate the feed back.

Just wondering if anyone Out there has made this recipe as an ale and if so what time did it spend in primary and secondary. Any help would be great, new to brewing game. Thanks