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Thanks all! I'll crack one open when I get home and report back.

Thanks lefou. I will definitely do this for future batches. Can I crack open a bottle (they were bottled yesterday) and try sampling again? Don't know what it would do, but I could at least check. Also, if this is a true read, there isn't anything necessarily wrong with the beer, correct...

Thanks all. I used what it came with: safale us-05. Full pack. When I tasted it, it tasted like a flat beer. It tasted good. It did not taste sweet.

Thanks all for the responses. I completely understand the hydrometer question. I'm a newbie Still and could easily make those mistakes lol. It does not hit the bottom. The volume I brewed was 5 gallons. I used 2.5 gallons first, added malt syrup and hops. Once the boil was over, I added 2...

Hey all - I MUST be making a huge newbie mistake. Let me know: I brewed a wheat beer. Original gravity was 1.040, exactly where it said it would be. Final gravity was a little under 1.030.... I subtract 1.040 minus 1.030, and then times it by 131.25 (is this correct?). It equals 1.31%. Is...

Perfect, thanks!

Good to know! Thanks again. Looking forward to trying one of these guys to see if it will actually taste better!

Thanks all! Much appreciated. Sounds like I may have actually done a good thing! Does that go for the cider too?

Hi all, I brewed an extract kit about one month - 5 weeks ago. It completed fermenting about less than one week in. I still have it in the fermenter and have not yet bottled. Is this okay? Is there a time where it could be considered too long to wait? I still have the plug and the airlock in...

Thanks all for the advice. Much appreciate as always :)

Hey all. Is this an infection? I brewed a grapefruit Bavarian weizen. It stayed in the fermenter for almost 3 weeks. When I opened the lid, it had that stuff floating on the top. Could just be from the sides of the fermenter, but I donno because I am pretty new to all of this. It tasted and...

I'm highly considering the blichmann although I am aloud to brew in the house (for now). I also have a fan above my stove. But I completely understand that most brewers would prefer not to use the stove because of many different reasons. Is that a good deal on a brand new blichmann? It's the...

Thanks govner. Good points. It below freezing outside where I'm from this time of year, and it gets in to single digits too. So I'd love to continue doing the boil inside for that reason alone. Do a lot of people make beer inside on their stove tops? I guess what I'm trying to say is, is it a...

Thanks all! So I have a great opportunity to buy a brand new blichmann, but the model prior to the hellfire, for 110 bucks at my local homebrew store. He is liquidating it so he can bring in the hellfire. However, I have yet another question: How necessary is it to have a burner? The absolute...

Thanks all. Blichmann is in the lead...but I just would like to know about sound on the less expensive burners. Is is so significant that it's hard to even be around it?

Great idea! So is the sound on these other burners really, really loud? Is it hard to hear when it's lit? It's pretty much the only thing that's holding me up from buying one over the other. Just concerned about sound at this point.

Very true, it's what's happening in the kettle that really matters. Although, i really don't want to be listening to the sounds of a jet engine, so I think I'll go with the hellfire anyways just to not deal with that sound. If it's truly loud like that, then it's worth it to me to pay for the...

Thanks all. Are the cheaper models of burners a lot louder than the hellfire? I have no experience with them, so I just would like to know. If it's annoyingly loud, I will get the hellfire. If not, I will go for the Bayou Classic 55,000 BTU burner (it's 100 bucks less). I'm not afraid to go...

Thanks all! Great advice, but I expected no less from each of you. What an amazing, friendly, professional forum. So, I'm definitely interested in the burner you suggested PADave, but I also don't want something that's really loud. Can you let me know what you think about the sound? Is it...

I am definitely taking that in to consideration. The banjo burner sounds like a decent little burner, and is in the lead so far. I didn't think I'd need the hellfire, although 100 dollars to 150 dollars isn't going to really save me much more money (by the way, the additional legs for the...