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I did measure the water with a plastic pail, and was considering that.. my only other option to measure volume is a 2 qt pitcher. Im not sure it's that acurate either, and filling 13 times wouldn't help much..

Haha no there was no priming sugar wit the kit.. Just curious how this could happen.. I'll be brewing again tomorrow, not a kit but a recipe made in beersmith so maybe I'll figure it out then.. is it possibly the DME? and could it be that far off with 6lbs?

Kit Recipe called for 1.051 and plugging the ingredients into beersmith comes up with the same OG. Hydrometer read 1.054@80F corrected to 1.056.. I did also weight the Dme before starting and it was exactly what the recipe called for.

So I did my first full boil extract kit today, with my new turkey fryer, but the numbers don't add up.. This kit called for 6.25g pre-boil and 5.25 into fermenter with an OG of 1.051. I started with exactly 6.25g and ended with just under 5.5, but an OG of 1.056. From what i have read most...

Sorry for the late response but thanks for the links Uniondr... of the 5000+ homebrew videos i've recently seen on youtube I never found those.. Very in-depth but easy to understand for a homebrewnewb... A+

Im my experience, if you get pulled over you are already deep into it.. It's a slow night and they are just fishing.. The best one I ever got was "well if you didn't do anything wrong why would you pull over?" Really?? Sorry next time I'll swerve into the flashing lights I guess? I worked...

I watched 10 seconds of the last vid. and already knew who that was.. why does that guy have to explain everything 4 times differently?

I want to see a proper racking/priming/bottling vid. with my 6th batch finished, and pretty sure of my process, I have yet to see a bottling vid without some huge blunder.. Have read many post/tutorials on the subject, but have yet to see anything in a video that I'm comfortable replicating...

Hello home brewers, I'm not sure if this is the right place to be asking but i have a few questions about wild yeast in cider. I have some experience with making cider years ago, but it was grandpas old wait and see method. I was going to start a batch, and thought I would do some more...