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^same, though 6 months, not 3 Between overheating my steeping grains (causing a much higher gravity- or else I fail at hydrometer reading), getting DME all over the kitchen, transferring to secondary via multiple oral siphons (due to ruining the HEPA filter essential to the siphoning assembly...

I'll be picking up a 2L Saturday morning, before I brew my porter(along with Fermcap, if they have it, which might allow me to do full boils). If I'm going to get a stirplate and a 1L flask, I might as well get a 2L, too (so long as I am sticking to ales for now). I was hoping to hold that off...

Mr. Malty is saying 1.75L with a stir plate, 1.081 OG and 1 pouch, so I should be fine- I was going to add the honey in the fermenter after things got going as it was (the 1.081 OG does NOT include it). I will definitely keep this in mind, though, as my stir plate will not be able to handle...

The kit says 1.081 OG.

I was wondering if I might need a bigger flask. I have a porter to do first, likely this weekend. I was probably planning on doing the starter next week (thus or friday), and brewing sat or sun, but I wasn't planning on making the starter more than 3 days before. I hate that I ordered a...

Wow-it seems like there's too much in the pack + DME/ H2O for my 1 L flask...or is there?

Thanks again you all for your help! I decided to do something easier (and ready much more quickly!) in the interim, so I got a Brewers Best robust porter kit at My LHBS, where I also got some Citra (2 oz pellet) and Sorachi Ace (2oz pellet & 1 oz whole leaf). Soon after I brew the porter...

Yeah, I am reluctant to toy with the mash makeup. The reviews of the kit have been pretty glowing, so, at least this time around, I'll confine my tinkering to hops & honey.

Thank you both for the feedback. I was expecting more hostility for attempting this in all of my noobishness, and I will most certainly will cut off some of the longer boil additions, and a lb of honey, based on your feedback. I have read that @ peak of fermentation is the best time to add...

I have ordered Northern Brewer's Carmelite Triple-Grain Tripel Kit. I am wanting to convert this into kind of a Tripel/IIPA hybrid. I plan on adding honey (lb. or two, White Sage, primary)and obviously, more hops. The recipe, is here: KIT INVENTORY: SPECIALTY GRAIN -- 1.5 lbs Belgian...

I can assure you it has become much worse (and more expensive) since you stopped taking it. Indeed, I have only been taking it for two years, and it most certainly has become both in that time.

It went pretty well, thanks. I had trouble controlling my temp during the steep, though (mostly around 180). The problem was that I only had two lbs specialty grains and not enough water to submerge them (I have a 7.5 gallon brewpot), unless I went way over the recommended amount of water. The...

After spending a few weeks reading the forums, watching videos of people brewing, and reading books and brewing instructions- I am finally ready to brew today. If anyone is in the area, and wants to stop by, please do so. I live about a half mile away from the West Falls Church Metro on the...

It's good to hear a more positive take on it, something that was lacking in my forum search of the yeast. One thing that concerns me is that my fermentation will likely be on the higher side (likely no more than 74 though), and I noticed quite a bit of people saying that higher temps produce a...

What if your witbeir kit has WB-06 as its yeast? (my bb wit kit does)