Recent content by TigerMark89

Thanks everyone for the advice, I was never in panic mode, I never will over a hobby and after all its just beer. I was always taught to learn from someone with more experience so thats the only thing I was trying to accomplish. I understand lack of bubbling but after researching the yeast I...

Pulled the airlock and detected no off smells. Peeked through the airlock hole and it looked like foam on the wort so I am assuming some type of activity. I will check the FG tomorrow. What do you end up with if you bottle an unfermented beer? Is it bad tasting, rotten, or just...

Only my 3rd batch so still a newbie. Brewing a shock top clone, cooked on Sunday afternoon, pitched Wyeast witbear 3944 at a Wort temp of about 65 degrees. Smack Pack swelled up good so assumed the yeast is good but I still have zero activity in the airlock. All of my previous batches...

I boiled about 3 gallons added 2 gallons of ice gold water to top off and sat the cookpot in a container of crushed ice. I stirred and added more crushed ice as needed and I had the wort cooled in about 15-20 minutes. I think the crushed ice was what helped the most, its great having neighbors...

Ok I overreacted, went home and it was bubbling away. Just add me to the list of emotional newbies. I think I'll have a drink and watch the bubbling.

Thanks guys for the input, not sweating it too much but its always better to have a little reassurance.

Ok guys this is first brew so forgive me for my impatience, but I have alot of family and friends waiting for the my first batch, some probably in hopes of failure. I am brewing a Coopers Ale....everything with cook when great, I was able to cool down the 3 gallon wort in about 20 minutes and...

Thanks Lotbfan, i'm almost finished with my boil and I got back online to find out wether to cool in my cookpot or transfer to plastic and cool. You just made my life alot easier.

I was going to use one of the large stainless pots that are used for deep frying turkeys,

Getting ready to start my first brew of a Coopers kit. I searched the threads and got varying answers so any advice would be helpful. I've seen ranges of 1 gallon of water to start up to 5 gallons, does it really matter if you are topping off with water. I am making a Coopers ale and I...

Thanks everyone for the advice, getting ready to boil for the first brew.

It is a coopers yeast packet that was affixed to the top of the coopers malt extract.

In addition to the can of malt and dry malt have the yeast packet and g 5 oz bottling sugar. The recipe says to boil 1 gallon of water and add the warmed "unhopped" malt extract. (my extract is malted) After returning to a boil add 2lbs of dried malt extract and return to boil. Finally...

My wife gave me a brew kit for my birthday but the recipe doesn't exactly match the contents of the kit. I have a 3.75lb can of Coopers Real Ale Hopped Malt Concentrate A 3 lb bage of Muntons Light Dried Malt Extract. (generic recipe says to use 2lbs of dried malt?) Do I use the entire...