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3-5 days with gelatin 7 days without Add one day if using glass or plastic instead of a keg. You'll never have a carbonation problem that way. Even if the beer seems clear, it'll always have anough yeast in suspension to carb some bottles. Unless you sterile filter it but that's a different...

+1 for starsan. Let is soak for a couple of minutes, put the hops in and down it goes :D Boiling is really great but, call me maniac, in the time where it's out of the kettle and in the carboy / keg, it could get bugs on it. When it's full of starsan, it's unlikely to happen :)

I've experienced a couple of arsh / bitter beers when they weren't supposed to. As just everyone have said, time will help taming it quite a bit. In fact, your last beer will most likely be your best ;) My problem was that where I live, we basically get wet chlorine out of the tap. Correct me...

Definitively use DME instead of corn sugar (dextrose). The other major impact you can have on a can and kilo kit would be to hop it up. When they boild down the worth to the consistency of molasse, all the aroma and taste molecules of the hops goes away with the vapor. You're basically left...

You can safely replace another .5# of dme with corn sugar and throw the carapils down to 4oz. I'd suggest doing 1 modification at a time in order to know what did what.

I've used a coronal for a while and hated it. I'm now on a barley crusher and I'm in heaven!

I've got fit once my girlfriend's got pregnant with our first kid. I didn't want to be the dad who stays on the park ben watching his kids play. I wanted to be the dad who was running and jumpinmg everywhere playing with his kids. My tricks : Water is almost all I drink (except a beer a day)...

Magnum for general bittering. If you like citrucy ipas, some Centennial could be great. The third one I'd buy in bulk woud be East Kent Golding. It just fits so well in an astonishing amount of styles.

7 days to bottling seems quite quick to me. I would let it a bit more time to let the yeast eat the diacetyl produced... Unless you want a butter stout ;) I've read somewhere the 2-2-6 rule when I've started brewing and it helped me quite a bit at first. 2 weeks primary 2 weeks secondary 6...

I've initially bought a Corona which I hated!2 The crush was awfully inconsistant. I think the 2 disks were not perfectly alligned and this resulted in flour and whole grains whatever the gap I would set it to. I've used it for 4-6 batches with poor efficiency. I've recently bought a barley...