Recent content by Tenaka

See, this is why I decided to tell the story of my batch instead of just asking questions. So people could point out things I wouldn't have even known to ask about. I made a glass of ice water, and took a shower to make sure it had enough time for the temperature to be stable. It came in at...

My concern was maybe one of them not having as much of an impact because it was buried in the other two in the bag. But if thats not a problem, great! Ahh, thanks. Since everyone just says "boil" I went middle of the road. I'll crank er up next time though. Just to be clear, I wasnt...

After some learning both during and after my first brew, I had the time to start up my second batch this weekend. With a 2.5g fermenter, I found that unless I bought a kit refill (which I didnt want to do) most ingredients are packaged for quantities you would need for a 5g batch. So I decided I...

Thanks everyone, being new I wasn't sure what to be concerned with and what not to be. Glad to know that there at least werent any major problems that I wasn't already aware of. Pete - the kit had an unlabeled white powder sanitizer so I can't say exactly what it was. But I've purchased some...

Like what seems like many peoples' starts, I received a kit as a gift and have finished brewing my first batch and bottled it a week ago. Its something I had been interested in for a while but I was never sure what was involved. Now that I know, I'm all in and am ready to start batch 2. Found a...

I'm brand new to brewing, just bottling my first batch. I think it went better than I expected before I started but I'm already know I made at least one mistake so I'm hoping to learn here how to do better and better each batch as I go. :mug: