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I've done five brews, only two have bubbled. They have all turned out excellent (except one, but that is a different story). Don't worry about it, your beer will be fine!

I recently made that same brewers best kit (the red ale). It was my second batch...and it turned out much the same as yours. Kind of sweet and malty, smooth, strong alcohol taste, little head retention or aroma, and absolutely no aftertaste! Mine was also really cloudy for some reason. I...

Alright, so this week I'm going to do a partial. I would like to do a full but I don't have the equipment (can't afford it yet). Still, I would like to learn about sparging, mashing, balancing PH using gypsum and CaCO3, starch conversion, various grain types, and all that good stuff. So...

One other thing... Do you feel that it's worth it? Does doing a partial or full mash allow for flavor complexity and brew quality that simply can't be achieved using extract recipes? Each of my extract recipes has come out a little bland...good, but lacking the rich flavors and aromas...

Hi, I have done five or six batches of beer. Each one was extract based with steeped grains. I would like to do partial mashes or all grain...but don't know where to start. One thing that might be stopping me is pot size...I have a 22 quart stainless steel pot, and a 20 quart "stainless...

I didn't use city water though...I used bottled spring water. Also, the strange thing is how much stronger it gets with time. I am using a *very* cheap stainless steal pot of dubious quality, but surely if that were the problem the metallic taste would come through from the beginning? I...

My first brew started out very bad, I used way to little water. As bottles gold older, they developed a very strong metallic twang to them. I fear this is happening with my second batch...the bottles are a week old now, and are starting to taste sort of metallic. But they were delicious a...

I tasted it...it's kind of sweet... ****. This happened with my first batch, and I don't want it to happen again. Incomplete fermentation. What can I do? By the way guys, thanks for the help, you all are great.

The krausen fell in on itself, actually. By residue, I meant that crap that builds up on the sides of the fermenter. It can't be a seal problem, when I press down on my primary fermenter cap the water in the airlock moves. But I will siphon some out and taste it.

Well basically it didn't bubble at all in the primary, although an inch of krausen residue was left when I racked it to secondary after nine days or so. It's been in the secondary for two days now and there is a lot of trub. But I have a sinking suspicion that it never fermented at all! I...

I didn't add any maple syrup to mine, but I don't think my yeast fermented very well. =/

This is exactly what I did on my second batch. 2.5 gallons boiling, 1.5 gallons in the bucket with 7 lbs of ice. I pitched the yeast on top, it was 80 degree water. It still didn't seem to ferment, it never bubbled, I racked it on day 10 and it tasted kind of like the batch I have in bottles...

I have one of those in my secondary right now! It's still really sweet/malty, I hope I didn't mess it up like I did my first batch (see other thread).

My second batch was in the primary for 1 week and 4 days, I just put it in the secondary. I'll probably leave it in there for at least two weeks. But I had a taste, and it still tasted a bit too sweet! Think it should mellow in the second? Nope.

Well, probably 1/2 gallon evaporated while boiling it and I accounted for the volume of the LME (6.6 lbs) so I *thought* it would be okay at the time. But do you think in a few weeks it will be better? I think this may have happened with my second batch as well, even though I tried to make...

So it's been a week after I bottled my first batch...which spent a week in a primary and a week in the secondary. I followed the instructions fairly well, but only used 3.7 gallons instead of the required five. I opened my first bottle today and it was incredibly malty and sweet. It also...

Yes, I do have a hydrometer. I didn't get a very good reading intially but it was somewhere between 5 and 6...when I put it back in there it should read close to 0 or 1 right?

Yeah but theres no way it's going to screw anything up. It's just going to multiply faster...which would explain why the top busted off.

Were the bottles upside down? I bottled my first batch today, and the bottles took fifteen minutes to dry. I just set them upside down in my dish holder thingy.

Unlikely, because the tube never really bubbled, and I just sprinkled the yeast right on top of the brew dry. Oh well, wait and see I guess.