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With the thread hijack, I have no idea who's talking to who.

I just bottled my second batch (Midwest's Autumn Amber ale). My first batch was Midwest's Liberty Cream ale, I used US-05 yeast for both batches and I used irish moss on both batches with 15 minutes left in the boil. when racking to the bottling bucket on both batches, I left close to a gallon...

When do you add the rice syrup solids? Edit: Nevermind, pretty sure you add them with the LME

Thank you for the info!

I brewed Midwest's Liberty Cream Ale for my first batch. Bottled it only a little over a week ago. I posted a thread a week ago or so about how I only bottled a little over 4 gallons worth because of sediment, but used 5 oz of priming sugar. I put one in the fridge so I could sample one...

I read somewhere on here awhile back that when doing a full boil, you don't need to steep the grains in the full volume of water. I steeped the grains in the full volume of water on my first 2 batches. Is there a reason for not steeping in the full volume? The reason I steeped at full...

I'm not a big hops fan. I had a 6 pack of Sam Adams Noble pils, drank two and that's all I could drink because it was just too hoppy. Last week I drank a Mr. beer witty monk, then drank a noble pils, and it tasted pretty good, so I drank another. Then I had a Fat Tire and it tasted really...

How did it turn out? I'm looking for a good light/easy drinker recipe for summer.

I bottled my first batch tonight. Midwest's Liberty Cream Ale. I boiled 5 oz. of dextrose in 1 cup of water and cooled to room temp. put it in the bottom of my sanitized bottling bucket, and siphoned the beer from the primary fermenter into the bottling bucket. I didn't wait a full 3 weeks...

Or in my case. The one that broke on my first batch, and the one that broke on my second batch.

I know a few people who have used the gift certificate for items other than recipe kits. They do make it sound like you have to use it towards a kit, but that isn't the case.

Haha, definitely addicting and I'm ashamed to admit that between mr. beer and 5 gallon batches, I have 16 gallons fermenting and conditioning, and I have drank exactly one beer so far.

With the groupon, you get the beer making kit and a recipe kit along with a $25 gift certificate can be used for anything. You don't have to use the gift certificate on a recipe kit.

This groupon deal was what got me into 5 gallon batches. I had gotten a mr. beer and did a couple of batches. Saw the groupon deal and snatched it up. I brewed my 2nd kit with it last night. Hard to beat, when you get the starter kit, a recipe kit, and a 25$ gift certificate.

Thanks everyone, lots of good info!

Okay, that's what I wanted to hear. Someone earlier was talking about an adapter, is there an adapter for this faucet to make a wort chiller work?

Here is a style of faucet like mine.

It has an aerator, and I probably won't be able to explain this well but: basically the faucet has a small cylinder shaped spout where the water comes out. I assume that the actual faucet has threads on the inside of it where this cylinder screws into so you can't see the threads.

Very interesting. I'll have to look into that.

Both times it fell out of the container tube thing that it goes in as I was taking it out. I'm a klutz when it comes to hydrometers. When I get my next one I'm going to wear it on a chain around my neck. Well probably not, I would probably break it and it would slit my throat! EDIT...