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ok, I got home and everything was going great, I took the beer and put it into the music room and left for a while. Several hours later the beer is now at 66 degrees, and the airlock is popping every second, looks good.

We'll see, I will post results when I get home tonight...it's at about 73 right now, which is the bottom of the packets range, then I will move it to the colder room which is in the 60's and report whether it stalled or kept on going.

The issue is that the temp range on the yeast packette is way outisde what usually is recommended...so what do you go by?

I see on here all the time to ferment at 60-70, when I did my last brew (first one I ever did) it said to brew from 71-86...I accidentally started at 84, then slowly brought it down to 73, and it stalled, I had to get it over 75 to get it to ferment at all. I can't imagine it going at all at 65...

cool thanks. I am going to keep it in my closet upstairs at about 73 degrees (packet says to ferment at 70-80) for 2 weeks and then move it to the basement which is at about 52-53 and leave it there for a couple months. Would it be ok to leave it in primary that long? Do lagers usually get...

i ended up just pitching the coopers yeast because it turns out to be a their european lager yeast kit and give instructions to ferment at cooler temps. Fermentation has started, but there is a bit of white foam in the krausen which has me thinking it's infected...We'll see, I wouldn't be...

thanks, that's perfect!

I have a coopers corona kit that I want to use up (it was free) but the yeast is expired. I was thinking I would use a proper lager yeast and use the BE2 and can 'o LME to try to make a really neutral cerveza for my wife to drink, has anybody done this?

have you ever heard "a watched pot never boils" ? Just chill, walk away and forget about it, that way the time will pass faster.

ok, I won't dump. I just thought maybe it was for sure going to be gross and didn't want to wait for this to finish, then secondary and then a month later realize I should have dumped it. Worst case scenario I drink it myself and not share with anybody :)

I already have a still. For fueling my car...yeah...

cool. I was just worried because the original yeast seemed to be dead, and the second pack of yeast is the one that was lively, so I thought the high temp would be way outside the yeast that is actually doing the work. I am going to leave it in primary for a couple weeks, and rack into...

I made my first batch last night, I used a Morgans Canadian Blond kit, and used 1 kg DME and a level cup of Dex, OG was 1.044. Boiled the dry stuff, added the can, and topped up with cool water. I proofed my yeast, but it was dead (kit is slightly expired) so I added another packette (a random...

Yeah, they are just malt, but I went out and got a coopers dark ale kit and some DME and some corn sugar to make a simple ale as my first kit.

thanks I will post results in a few weeks :)

ok, so I am gonna forgo any of this worry and I got a coopers dark ale and an ounce of fuggles hops. I figure Ales are easy to start with. I like hoppiness, I was thinking I would just dry hop the ounce and see how she works. Is an ounce of hops enough? it seems like so little... Thanks...

I tried the beer calculus utility, but it didn't have the morgans beer I have. I am going to try it at 55 degrees in my basement and see what happens. worst case it sucks and I dump it, it was free. What sort of OG should I be aiming for? is there a general number, or is it vastly different...

ok, the kit comes with primary and secondary bucket and carboy, several airlocks, thermometers, hydrometer, racking cane, hoses, keg, lines, bottlecaps...misc stuff, and then 2 cans of the beer. I went out and bought 1.2 kg of dme and 1 kg of dextrose. I think I am going to try the canadian...

ok, if it's not totally an easy beginner kit, the other that it comes with is Morgan's Canadienne Blond...I presume that it is a lager though, so it would likely not be a good one to start with too right? Again, this kit doesn't come with any sugar, Morgans seems to be a smaller company than...

cool thanks. This seems like a good beer to start out with, nothing hard. Hopefully it is as tasteless as the original, as this will make the wife like it and condone my hobby :)