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Welcome aboard. I've made a bunch of those boxed wort kits, and some extract recipes with steeped grain. No all grain yet. The FestaBrew are nice because they come with a more appropriate yeast than the BrewHouse sometimes do. I usually replace the supplied BrewHouse yeast. I even made a...

Welcome aboard. The first few batches that I made, I drank too quickly. They weren't all that good until a few months after bottling. So, I only got a few of them at their peak.

I made a BrewHouse Cerveza kit, but used a lager yeast and fermented pretty cold, rather than the supplied yeast. It turned out pretty good, very clean, wife friendly. For limes, I like them sliced and added fresh :) I also prefer the Festa kits slightly. Especially for head retention.

Hi Jean-Francois, there is a mailing list for Montreal brewers at https://secure.neap.net/mailman/listinfo/montrealers I am only on the Ottawa list, so I am not sure how active it is, but members of the list were winning prizes at brewing contests recently.

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Welcome aboard Bruce.

Yeah. Take off, eh!

Welcome aboard. I have noticed a few people from Northern Ireland on here.

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Two large Mexican carboys going strong here. So that makes 12 for a total of... 705

You're welcome. I found there was a lot of terms in both beer and wine making, but the concepts behind them were usually simple. Ditto the American thing, UK gallons are bigger. If you want to try a non-beer brew, besides mead, there is always apfelwein or cider...