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I brewed the extract version of this a week ago, pulled a hydrometer sample last night because I was getting antsy and wanted a reason to taste it. It's at 1.020 and has that same cider kind of flavor that some people have been talking about earlier in the thread. I'm assuming it's just...

Given the temperature in the basement right now, how much sugar I put in (if the packet was accurate, duboman is right I should have weighed it myself), and the amount of beer, using Northern Brewer's calculator I should end up with a CO2 volume of about 3.3, which is higher than the Kolsch...

I did a partial boil using 2 of the 2.5 gallon water jugs you can buy at the grocery store, 2.5 into the primary, and boiled 2.5. So it was exactly 5 gallons. It makes sense now that I'm thinking about it that I would have lost some of that to trub and probably boil-off, I was just a little...

I brewed my first beer 3 weeks ago, the Kolsch recipe from Brewer's Best and pretty much followed the recipe word for word, and everything seemed to be fine along the way. All the way till bottling this weekend that is. I had gathered up enough bottles for a 5 gallon batch, 12 one liter...