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Hi, I noticed you're from Long Beach so I thought I'd mention that there's a LHBS near Lakewood Blvd. and Carson St. They even do brewing classes on weekends there at the store. I'm not sure if it's an issue promoting specific local businesses in posts, so PM me if you want some details. I'm...

Brewed up an extract kit today, the NB German Blonde. I'm excited about it because I now have a mini-fridge/stc-1000 setup going so I can keep my fermentation temp in a proper range. Yay! I've got the sensor taped to the side of the carboy with a couple of strips of bubble wrap heavily taped...

Thanks Onetime. Yeah, I was pretty certain that the beer was fine. It still looks normal and all, it's just that after a long quiet period there was a change again and I wasn't expecting it. I was going to be lazy and just bottle this weekend without doing gravity readings, so if this meant...

Getting ready to bottle my first brew, and I noticed yesterday that after about two weeks of my beer looking unchanged (nothing on top but a few brown-colored floaties) it suddenly now has a lot of lighter colored stuff on top. It doesn't look like infection, just new yeast rafts, but since...

Just brewed my very first batch of beer a couple of weeks ago, and I'm now wondering about the sanitizer that I used. I had mixed up some Star San in a 1 gallon glass carboy, and noticed that it was a bit cloudy right from the get-go (I used tap water through our refrigerator's filter). I...

Congrats to you...must be pretty exciting! I will be bottling my first brew this upcoming weekend and regardless of how it turns out, it'll be great having something in bottles for the first time. And just think, you still have another big 'first' to look forward to....popping the cap off of...

No, the instructions said to use half of the pack. I didn't measure it out, I estimated. So it's possible I used a bit more than half. In this case though, even half a pack may have been a bit much, because after the boil I ended up with well less than a gallon of wort, and I didn't top it...

Thank you all for the replies. The yeast was Danstar Nottingham Ale Yeast. The kit instructed that 65-75 degrees F is a good range for the yeast, but if that's wort temp instead of ambient temp then I may have been pushing it a bit. I've got the carboy in a closet where it's been mid to high...

I recently brewed my first batch of beer. It's a 1-gallon kit from NB (Irish Red Ale). Within 24 hours, it appeared fermentation had begun. (Thick layer on top with lots of bubbles) Great! However, after only another 24 hours it looked like fermentation was already nearly completed (thick...

Hello to all. Well, after wanting to do this for years, I finally got around to brewing my first batch of beer. I received a 1-gallon kit from NB as a gift, and brewed up the Irish Red Ale recipe a couple of days ago. It took me a few months to get around to using the kit :o, so perhaps the...