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welcome. wow, 1 day in the bottle and you're already taste testing. The first batch is a killer to wait out, but it gets easier the more you brew - start stocking up on bottles now so that you have a variety of batches to sample from, and always have 'something' brewing in the fermenter.

My first was a Brewer's Best Classic English Pale Ale. It was simple and quick - 14 days in primary, and after 4 days in the bottle (i was awfully impatient) it was already carbed and tasted pretty dang good.

Try checking in the Cider forum. I just recently tried a bottle that I brewed at the end of January, and only now is it close to 'worth drinking'.

so it cleared up in the last few days - can see right through it. Drank a pint of it last night - it still smelled slightly of vinegar, tasted like mostly nothing. Guess i'll just bottle it and revisit in another few months.

I got tired of constantly sanitizing and wasting samples, so i tied some floss around the hydrometer, sanitized, and left it in the carboy to float around. it keeps attracting bubbles that collect on the surface, but i can lift it out with the floss and deposit it back in a clear spot if need be.

nope, not yet, but again, i'm not sure how clear it's supposed to get with the 3068 yeast.

can anyone give me an idea of where 4 gallons of AJ with 1 pound of corn sugar (o.g. of 1.056) should finish using wyeast 3068? i'm getting impatient with mine, which has been hovering around 1.004 for a good 3-4 days now.

Xingu is the first and only beer that actually gave me a migraine after drinking it. It's still one of my favorites though.

I used an electric heating pad set on 'low' to help carbonate a batch that was conditioning in a cold part of the house - placed it in between two cases of beer that were stacked one on top of the other. At 6 days they were fully carbed (perhaps even sooner, but that was the earliest I had...

I was in the same boat a few weeks ago, being new to brewing. I like reading and seeing what everyone else is doing to try to get some direction, but in the end i decided to just do 'something' already, and stop worrying if it's the right thing or not. A couple gallons of apple juice and a...

Thanks for the update. I guess if i expect mine to be ready for spring/summer I ought to get to it soon.

Ok, it's the end of January, and I'm on the edge of my seat waiting to hear how the 3068+0# batch is coming along. I had to run out the the LHBS this weekend to pickup another hydometer and made sure to get some Wyeast 3068 while i was there for the sole purpose of making a batch myself. Was...

does michigan have a higher per capita number of micro brews and/or home brew supply stores or something? or is that everyone in this state has lost their job, so might as well spend time making homebrew?

Yeah, i noticed there seems to be quite a few of us here... thanks for the welcome.

Hello, Just wanted to say hi. Got a 5 gallon brewing kit for xmas from my wife and in-laws (I am truly blessed) and found this site right away. It's helped me brew my first Classic English Pale Ale kit which i'm drinking right now. Looking forward to spending hours upon hours reading all...