The instructions I got say boil with 1 1/2 gal. Then fill the 6 gal. carboy up with 2 1/2 gal. poor the 1 1/2 gal that you boiled into the carboy and then top off to 5 1/2 gal.
I purchased the Northern Brewery honey brown ale extract kit and cooked it up on the 19th. It started real soon with airlock activity and got a head of about 2 inches on it. Well today the 23 I have no airlock activity and no head.... My first gravity reading was 1.051 and today I took a sample...