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Thank you! This is super helpful info. I had never used secondaries interestingly. Maybe it was from budgetary reasons? lol Not sure. I am getting a 5 gallon carboy for secondary fermentation but I'm not sure what to use it for yet. Can you "fit" a 5 gallon kit inside a 5 gallon carboy and...

Hey, friends! Hope you have all been well during this madness we are in the middle of right now. Just wanted to say hello and let you all know I'm back into home brewing. Been a long time, but I'm excited to get back into it. Waiting on my kit order from Northern Brewer to come in and then...

I've done several Cooper's Kits and I've always been impressed with the quality... I'm fermenting a Sparking Ale kit right now... still available on www.makebeer.net...

Flowers.... AND a beer kit?

Maybe there was it... AGGHHHHH I guess I'll never know... DANG IT!

I've had great success at Northern Brewers... flat rate shipping and great tasting kits...

It can't be done!

Welcome, Eric! I woke up to a blown airlock from a Irish Stout... Luckily it had happened less than an hour before... LOL it was about 6 in the morning, so I stood there staring at my BB trying to figure out WTF had just happened... took me a while to realize the airlock wasn't on the BB...

Good ole Google brought me this way... I think I search for "home brew forum" and lo and behold... HBT.COM!!!!! My monitors flickered when I clicked on the link... (I'm pretty sure... it could have been the power company though...)

LOL And you see that mark right there? That's where the Wort got me... It was a tough battle but I overcame him in the long run... about 5-6 weeks later to be exact...

Welcome! I'm a big fan of Northern Brewer's down here in Kansas... We need a HB store desperately...

Man, I have something of there's the other day that came in a liter bottle I think... I already stripped the labeling off to re-bottle it, but man it was good... I used to love their Pale Ale on tap back in Southern California but was never crazy about it bottled... But that beer was good...

GASP! You have SEDIMENT!!!! Well, shucks, that means you totally... made your first home brew!!! Go-rats! Did you try a little sip while you were bottling? I always do just to make sure I didn't screw up. =) Good job... enjoy it!

Agreed... I buy almost exclusively from them lately... They have great shipping times and I've never had any shenanigans with any missing items...

Welcome to the forum! Where do you get your supplies from?