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I agree with lemon. Just buy distilled water for like six bucks and save yourself the worry. Good luck on ur first brew. Remember to sanitize everything!

Dont dump it. Let ur tastbuds judge it. I just bottled a high gravity holiday ale that had a layer of what Looked liked skummy yeast with bubles even on top. I sampled after racking off into bottling bucket and its the best damn beer I have made so far. Never dump it without tasting it first...

I always add an extra half gallon of water to the fermenter before pitching my yeast. At least if I do have blowoff it will get the extra and not the original 5 gallons I am expecting.

KB, I keep iced bottles in the water tub that has the fermenter in it. Just put two back in it at lunch. Thanks for the info. Progmac, I don't have a local HBS. I would have to order in and shipping would have been outrageous. The yeast packets I was able to get soonest was the coopers ale yeast...

Just an update for those that want to know. I got my extra packets of dry yeast in Wednesday, still no activity in the fermenter yesterday, so I pitched 3 packets as required by mrmalty. The fermenter is going crazy now. I had to replace the airlock with a blow off hose to keep it under control...

Hey Kiss brew, Yes, sorry I meant Coopers Pure Brewers Yeast in the packets. I almost did what you were saying and ordered the wrong thing but I caught myself and corrected it quickly. Thanks for the reply. GO DAWGS! RJSkypala, thanks for the input, I will defiantly keep my eye on it...

Hi All I am new to the forum and pretty green to the homemaking brew process as well. I have already made one batch of beer from a kit, Irish Red Ale and bottled it this past weekend. Sampling the uncarbonated product boosted my confidence on what I was doing seemed to be right. Since...