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I'm hoping to make this pretty soon but unfortunately I don't have a strong enough stove to do a full boil. Do any of you think this will affect the quality a whole lot? Should I just wait until I finally get a turkey fryer (maybe in December)? Thanks.

Well I went home yesterday and tried to save the beer that was left. It looks like it was either too much priming sugar or an incomplete fermentation. All of the bottles I uncapped were geysers. It took me a long time but I was able to recap most of them. I ended up losing about 12 of the 48...

Yeah this is only my second batch and bottle bombs was one of the things that made me think twice about starting to brew. I should be able to narrow down the causes a little more tonight, if all my bottles go kaboom then its probably not uneven mixing. But if I am able to uncap them and I...

@knotquiteawake - No I have a temperature controlled chest freezer, set at 70 degrees F. @mr_bell - I was just using the 5 oz priming sugar pack that comes with ingredient kits. The beer was a hefeweizen and it was at about 70 - 75 when I bottled I believe. They have only been in the bottle...

@Tobyone No they are crown caps. @phatuna Thanks for the link, I'll look over it.

Hi everyone, I woke up this morning to a couple of my bottles exploding in my fermentation freezer. I'm trying to figure out ways to prevent this next batch and I had a few questions. The three probable causes for bottles bombs are a) Weak bottles. b) Bottling two early/too much priming...

Yeah that's essentially what it is. Same with the fried coke.

Here is a different style of fried beer which sounds better to me than the beer filled ravioli in the news: http://skepchick.org/blog/2010/08/how-to-make-fried-beer/

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Hi Guys, I'm getting ready to brew my second batch of beer, an extract hefe, and had a question about making my first starter. I've read the instructions for making a starter on howtobrew.com and I was wondering if I should get an extra amount of DME to use for the starter or if just using...

Thanks!, turns out it takes 4 mins for mine to kick in after the temperature rose. And here is my last question, I promise, I might be able to get a freezer for free off of craigslist, would I be able to use the thermostat to control the freezer or would I need to get a better temperature...

Thanks guys, I have one more question though. I tried to the wiring for it today and i ran into a problem with the thermostat. I can't seem to get it to work on the automatic cool setting. It works when I set the fan switch to the on position but when i switch it to auto it doesn't operate...

Alrighty then thats what I will do. Thanks for the reply.

Hi everyone, I've been lurking in the forums for a little while now and am currently brewing my first batch of beer. I haven't been doing much for temperature control and after looking over the plans for a son of a fermentation chamber a week or so, i decided to try to build one. The only...