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I noticed the slimy feel too. It seems to come off pretty easy with my sinks spray attachment. I'm hoping that works well enough for the carboy.

I just used Oxi Clean to clean brew equipment (pot, bucket, carboy, etc). I knew it was ok to use for cleaning but I just read there's different types and I should have been using Oxi Clean free. The tub I have has a yellow top (I was supposed to be looking for green?) but also does say...

I actually did try to pull it out but it was being rather resistant to my efforts and I didn't want to damage the gasket. Since I was snapping the lid back on anyway after checking I figured leave it in so I don't have to mess with it again. Lesson learned.

Taking the top off my primary fermenter (a bucket) is a bit of a chore and I usually end up compressing the lid a bit while working it which makes a vaccuum when I let up. As I was doing this the other day I heard a sucking noise coming from the airlock which was obviously sucking air back...

1.045-1.049 was the target OG. However when I took the reading the wort was still warm (mid 90s) so I figured it was close enough. I will take a look at the gallon lines in the fermenter next time, that thought hadn't occured to me. Here's a link to the kit I used. As for priming I...

I cooled in the fermenter. I poured the hot wort over the ice in the fermenter then filled to the 5 gallon line. OG at that point was 1.039 but was still very warm (mid 90s). Rest assured though I'll never be doing that again anyway.

Because I like them (I'm pretty easy to please when it comes to beer though) and also because it looked like a pretty simple starter kit, not a whole lot of frills.

Hi there, new to the forums and new to home brewing. Tried my first brew almost a month ago after seeing Alton Brown's Good Eats episode on beer brewing (which I've since learned wasn't the most, ah, "normal" way to do it). I got a basic brewing kit and an LD Carlson English Brown Ale...