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Now we're on the same page!!! :mug:

Why would you not? He is passionate about his beer. If you had a microbrew and were going up against the big dogs that brainwash us with bull****, wouldn't you be passionate???

What size stopper fits inside of the buckets spigot?

:::In a high pitched, ghetto voice::: OH NO HE DIDN'T!!!

If they can hold pressure and be cleaned and sanitized, sure. What was their previous purpose?

Come on man, seriously?? You would share a brew kettle and greasy turkey frying kettle? Allow me to re-word my post: "If you care ANYTHING about the finished quality of your beer, both taste and appearance, I would buy a separate kettle to brew in and a separate kettle to fry turkeys in...

What he said... I see you did buy 24 22-oz bottles. You will probably need between a six pack and a 12 pack of empty micro/craft brewery bottles to finish bottling your beer.

Or, if you like the size of the pot you have now, perhaps you could buy the exact same setup again and have a spare burner, OR sell the burner to recoup some of the cost of buying another pot???

You may want to consider purchasing a separate brew kettle, and not sharing one kettle between a brew pot and a turkey frying pot. There is no way you'll clean the oil out of the kettle after you've fried a turkey in that pot. It will impart a flavor to your beer, and also you'll have the oil...

Welcome to the obsession! I also started with a Mr. Beer kit. Then I bought another Mr. Beer fermenter so I could have 2 batches going at the same time. I learned a lot from that kit and then moved on. It was a lot of work for about 20 beers per "keg". Your kit looks pretty standard. Do...

Revvy, you always give great advice. I've learned a lot from you in every post you make... Keep on keeping on my friend!

I've used a Mr. Clean Magic eraser with some OxyClean on both a gas range and when I used to do partial boils on a glass top electric stove. Great success with that.

I'm an IT Network Engineer... Special, I know.

It won't be it's best, buy it could be ready. 1 week in the primary, 1 week in the secondary, 1.5 weeks to carbonate, and 1.5 weeks to cold condition in the bottle. Do-able... If you have any left, it will be great by Thanksgiving!

Did you use canned pumpkin or fresh? I used cooked fresh pumpkin that was pureed in a food processor. I threw this in a grain bag, and honestly I don't think I lost much at all through that grain bag!

If this happens, can you possibly just boil your wort a little longer (or again) to kill off anything that may be introduced and then start the cooling process over? I've never had it happen, but I would be PISSED if I had to waste a batch simply because water was introduced that shouldn't have...

I also believe that Sam Adams uses SWEET cherries, which gives it that cough syrup taste that many do not like.

I poured everything into my carboy, even the water. I did put the cherries in a hop sack so I could easily seperate the cherries from the wort by pulling the hop sack out of the carboy neck. A little challenging, but it can be done.

I used canned, red tart cherries from Oregon Fruit Products. It is just cherries in water, it wasn't a cherry pie kit or anything. I actually got them at Wal-Mart too. I put in 4 cans in my last cherry wheat (5 gallon batch) and it seemed like a crowd pleaser. I believe it was a 14.5 OZ can.

I brewed this yesterday and I put my pumpkin goop in a LARGE grain bag. The grain bag appeared to have contained the pumpkin goo very well. I used real pumpkin that we boiled down, and not canned pumpkin. I also used a full pound of rice hulls and I did not have to drain slowly at all. No...