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I think it is possible that I added too much honey. I added a full cup, which was the amount needed for 5gallons, but I think I actually had less. I'm guessing around 4 gallons. If this is the case, is there anything i can do about this?

Also, I opened the second bottle and it tasted better and did not all turn into foam and taste too bitter until after the first swig. Then once i transferred the beer from a bottle to a glass it stopped turning into foam.

It's been in the bottle for two weeks now. And I neglected gravity readings in the beginning so I didn't take them in the end either. I'm sure those readings would have helped with actually controlling this process more. I sort of just went by the timeline given to me in the instructions...

I bought the ingredients from this place called the brooklyn brew shop and I bought there spring lager. Which uses lager yeast that is supposed to ferment at ale temperatures. Here is recipe...

Hello all. I just brewed my first homebrew and its a spring lager, which was described as an amber lager. I had to improvise the boiling of my sub5 gallon wort in several different pots and it was difficult to figure out how to distribute the hops, which I am going to to ahead and say did...