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My first homebrew is done! It's done carbing, and I put it in the fridge a few hours ago. This is only after 2 hours in the fridge.....2 weeks of fermentation, 3 weeks carbing in the bottle, then the 2 hours in the fridge. It's a Weizenbier...but i added 1 oz. of orange peel and 1 oz...

So when i bought my brew kit a couple months ago they asked me what i wanted for my first brew......i told them i wanted a Blue Moon clone.....because that is my favorite easy drinking beer. The fermentation smelled funny....to me it was moldy smell, but i had mulitiple brewing friends tell me...

That took longer than i expected...... :mug:

Just got done bottling the SECOND batch.....krausen was still present, and FG was 1.012 which is what the recipe calls for AND is the same as the gravity reading i got three days ago. It has been in the carboy for 13 days as well. My THIRD batch has only been in primary for 7 days and it's...

First two batches hit OG and FG right on the nose.....I checked the second batches gravity two days ago and it was spot on where the FG calls for, and I'm going to check it today to make sure it's not falling any more. It's already at 1.012 and bubbles are very few and far between. As far as...

I'm a newbie to brewing, but have managed to get three beers going.....one has been in bottles for a week, the second is about to be bottled tonight or tomorrow, and the third has been in primary for a week. My question pertains to "head" on the top in the Fermentation bucket/carboy. The...

That's a good point....once i have beer of my own circulating....it probably won't sit long. I plan to brew a new batch every two weeks till I can't bottle/keg anymore.....I have an extra fridge that will probably be converted into a 4 spot "kegerator". I could fit 4 5 gallon korny kegs in the...

I would be force carbing it....just wondered how long it will be good in a keg. If it doesn't stay good in bottles for long i would think it would be the same in a keg.....

Do wheat beers have a problem in kegs? I'm thinking of getting a Co2 keg setup for my second batch that will brew tonight and ferment in a couple weeks. It's another wheat....raspberry honey wheat.

my recipe says to let them sit in the bottles for 21+ days....with this style beer will it get significantly better the longer it sits?

It has really slowed down in the bubbling today.....today is day 7....what about moving it to my bottling bucket and let it sit another week? I ended up picking up a glass carboy....so if i transfered.....i'd be able to start two more batches!

Downriver.....

Thanks for the welcome guys! I'm getting the brew bug pretty bad....my first batch has only been brewing for 5 days and I can't wait to transfer it to secondary so i can brew a second batch and start primary! I think I might even be purchasing another set of glass carboys....because I can...

HI.... As stated in the title I'm a new brewer from the Detroit metro area. I've had a few friends who have been doing this for a while, and finally broke down and bought myself a kit. Had the kit for less than 24 hours and I've already got my first batch in initial fermentation! I'm a...