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I brewed a 5 gallon Irish Stout Extract kit about 5 days ago and today while checking the temperature on it, I realized that I accidentally filled the carboy up to the 6 gallon mark instead of the 5. I was hoping to have this ready for St. Patty's weekend. Is there anything I can do to help...

Would also like to know if they are still available.

6.5 gallon Glass Big Mouth Bubbler Evo 2 came in today and I plan on using it next week. Hopefully the issues from the old style have been fixed.

I'm a noob when it comes to brewing but I've been wanting to do this for several years and just recently was financially capable of doing so. I just wanted to say thank you to everyone on the site for all of the information that is available on here. I've been on several types of other forums...

Welcome from Dallas!

Thanks again for all of the input. I had a little trouble also reading the fermometer without instructions but of the three numbers that are changing color the middle one was 64 so I'm guessing the temp is around that. That was before I put the wet towel around it so hopefully it will drop a...

The yeast was wyeast American ale #1056 and the beer is autumn amber ale. Right now it's in a plastic bucket but I do have a glass carboy that the instructions said to transfer to for the secondary. The coolest place besides my garage is probably my kitchen pantry which is where it is at right...

Thanks for all of the help guys...i pitched the yeast at 80 degrees because thats what the instructions that came with my kit said to do, guess I should have done more research. I sealed everything up about 12 hours ago and there is a bubble in the air lock roughly every 4 seconds right now. Is...

I didn't use any soap just sanitized everything with starsan and I pitched the yeast right around the 80 degree mark. I'm probably just being paranoid

But im going to be.....its another did i ruin my batch question. Right before i added the yeast on my first batch there seemed like there was too much foam up top so i panicked and scooped most of it out and then added the yeast and sealed it up, was that a crucial mistake?

Another Texas member specifically from Dallas...just put my first batch in the primary tonight, hopefully everything turns out well. Ive been wanting to homebrew for a few years now just recently got the balls to try it and am already hooked.