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I decided the first beer I should attempt to brew should be a pumkin ale. At first I thought I messed it up. I added 1.5 gallons too much water and 3x too many hops. My 5 gallon recipe ended up makeing 6 gallons in the secondary. I tried a glass last night. It has an upfront hoppy bitterness but...

I think he had another recipe on his mind when he was gathering supplies.

For this batch of beer I'm following the directions of my receipe. So I transfered the beer to the secondary tonight. The gravity hadn't changed in a few days either. It was staying on 1.016. I ended up with 6 gallons in my secondary. So I probably put in about 1 1/2 gallon too much water. I...

I'm starting to feel better about my first batch.

I forgot about adding points for the temp to my og It was more like 1.051 My current gravity is more like. 1.022 Thanks for all the help! I'll eventually figure out how to read gravity.

yea, It's a typo should read 1.048- 1.041. I put in all together. 6 gallons of water plus ingredients minus boil evaporation.

I didn't have the forsight to put gallon marks on my fermenter before I started. It's and old glass milk perk tank out of a milk parlor. I bought it off a farmer for $5. It probably holds 7-8 gallons. The receipe says 1.048-1.014og and 1.011-1.014fg. I just now finally figured out how to read my...

Well I screwed up my first homebrew. It was a pumkin ale. Everything I read about making beer said not to worry have a homebrew. Well I think I had too many. I put my beer in the fermenter about 3:00 am Sun. I put in about 1 to 1 1/2 gallons too much water, and I forgot to airate it before...