I made my first batch Friday night. Sometime in the middle of the night/Saturday morning it began fermenting. It was getting a bubble about every 10 seconds in the airlock. I checked it this morning and nothing was happening! I checked again around 6 am and still no bubbles! What happened? I...
Ok I got the wort and LME mixed in the bucket, and added water to the 5 gal mark, problem is the temperature strip on the side isn't showing a temperature reading so I don't know the temp. The bucket is warm to the touch, I don't want to kill the yeast, so what should I do?
Do I filter out the hop pellets? Or leave in ferment bucket? And do I add the 5oz sugar packet to the wort or is that sugar for bottling? I know the yeast needs sugar but figured the LME might contain the sugars.
I bought my beer equipment today and I also bought a Muntons beer ingredient kit. The instructions are vague and it seems like to much dry malt extract, I dont know because again this is my first batch. The kit includes a 3.3 # can of liquid malt extract, 2 lbs of dry malt, separately bagged, 5...