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I feel your pain. My brewing stuff is in a storage unit in another state and I probable won't get up there to recover it until the fall. At least I managed to ship my last batch of beer with me (bottles) and it seemed to make the trip OK even though it was exposed to a couple of days of heat.

I made my second 5 gallon batch ever-- a brown ale from an ingredient kit. While transferring from the fermenter to the bottling bucket, something distracted me and I "bubbled" the beer real good for at least a few minutes. After bottling conditioning for 3 weeks my first beers are...

I am new to brewing and am doing my second 5 Gallon batch (my first came out quite good:mug:) which is a true brew brown ale extract kit. My fermentation bucket held an exact 66 degrees for the first week. Then, we lost power in below zero weather and I believe the wort cooled to about 50...

Did my second brew ever on Saturday-- a truebrew brown ale extract kit. It seemed to go well even after a boil over. I forgot how vigorous the hot break was and was unprepared. I did my first brew back in the fall and then had some minor issues like a hip replacement and getting caught...

32,808 + 5=32,813 Just got started then had to take a break. Hopefully I can get something going in the next couple weeks. Amber ale that came out surprisingly good.

Being jealous of all you guys with fun plans while I sit home and recover from a hip replacement.:) To add insult to injury, I have my first batch of homebrew that came out pretty good that is sitting in the basement and can't be enjoyed by me right now.

Became a father, commissioned in the Army and spent the rest of the year trying to survive my Officer Basic Course. I really don't remember a lot of that year except exhaustion!

I'm back!!!! with my new hip I am slowly turning into a cyborg; if i keep this up with joint replacements I am eventually going to be factory original. I can't even sample any more of my first batch any time soon, let alone get started on my next, but I can at least brew vicariously through...

I think I pitched the yeast at too high a temperature; that was one mistake I made a mental note of and plan to chill more efficiently. Could that account for the couple of "odd" flavors I was initially tasting?-- and which have seemed to have either disappeared or really scaled back.

I am starting to sample the first beer I have ever brewed (amber ale from a kit). When I tried my first bottle (after 3 weeks bottle conditioning in a dark room at about 67 degrees) my standards were pretty low. I wanted it to kind of look like beer, sort of taste like beer and have some...

I live near Elizabethtown KY and just brewed my first beer. Like many people I would think, I started off with a kit. I did the True Brew Amber Ale and it came out just fine. I have been always saying that I wanted to brew some beer just to say I did it, so my adult son rounded up everything...