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684.5 + 1 gallon traditional 1 gallon elderberry 1 gallon J(not so)AOM 1 gallon hibiscus = 688.5

1 gallon orange blossom traditional 626.5 + 1 = 627.5

Sorry, ginger ale is just what we're calling it and where some of the inspiration came from. It's 3.5 lbs honey and about .5 lbs ginger that will be fermented dry and then primed and bottle carbed. So it is actually a ginger mead. So +1 = 590.06 :)

3 gallons traditional, 1 gallon pumpkin pie, 1 gallon blood moon cherry, 1 gallon ginger ale = + 6 gallons = 590.06

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...I'd do it

OK, I'm looking to do my second beer today. I really want to try a brown ale. I think what I'm looking for is more of an English style: more of a malty flavor, with enough hops to balance it out, but not too bitter. I'll admit, I have no idea how to write a recipe, but I was...buzzed...and just...

That's kinda what I figured. Thanks a lot everybody for your responses. I'm looking so forward to my first brew!

I have what I believe you're referring to...it's a tube with a pin and is used to fill bottles by pressing the pin in on the bottom of the bottles, but since I don't have the spigot it will have to be siphon fed.

Yes, the priming sugar solution will be boiled and cooled. For the hydrometer thing, yeah...that was really unfortunate and unexpected. I never even got to take the OG reading of my first beer. Oh well. I'll either leave the water alone or shake holding the heavy end next time.

My primary doesn't have a spigot, so I'm wondering if I should still rack from the carboy over to the bucket and then bottle from there. The reason I ask is because it seems that when you pour in the priming sugar you would have to stir it up in the carboy, which would probably kick up some of...

Ok, awesome guys. Thanks for the replies. I do have a glass carboy that I'm racking to for secondary fermentation, so I was planning on around 7 days in the primary, 2 weeks in the secondary, and then start sampling bottles randomly after 1-2 weeks in bottles. Seem like a good enough schedule...

Ok, so basically, I'm just wondering how much activity I'm supposed to see in the air lock. After about one day I was seeing a bubble every ~2 seconds. Day 2 - about every 3 seconds, and now day 3 about 7-8 seconds. For some reason, in my mind, I had imagined that it would be bubbling like a...

Yeah, that's kinda what I was thinking. It looks easy enough and should give me a small feel for every process of brewing, not just boiling some extract and calling it a week. As for the yeast...I really have no clue what I'll use. I don't know ANYTHING about the different types of yeasts...

Thanks everybody, and I think I will look at that beersmith program. How much is it to buy after the trial? Bearcat: The recipe I'm thinking of right now for my first brew is actually just an attempt at a clone of my favorite local brewery's flagship brew, an amber ale. I found the grain...