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Ok, so I started a honey lager a couple weeks ago and a few days ago bottled them and tossed them in the fridge. Because I didn't have a good place to let things sit and ferment at ideal temperatures, I used a high temperature lager yeast (Wyeast 2112), which has ideal temperatures between...

Yeah, I had to wait around 30 hours before I really started to see a lot of activity in my first batch (which I just bottled a couple days ago!) and then it happily bubbled away for around 2 weeks before it settled down. Don't worry about it :-)

Hey everybody :tank: I just signed up today having only just started my foray into the world (and obsession) of home brewing. I've had a number of friends and relatives that have brewed in the past or currently brew their own beer, and it's something that I've been fascinated with for...

Thank you much, I'm really very excited to be here. Homebrewing is something that I've been REALLY interested in for probably about 4 years or so, and up until now, just couldn't put it together. Sadly, I had several friends that were really into it, so every once in a while I'd get to sample...

@MalFet: I haven't tasted it yet as I only pitched the yeast 3 days ago. It wasn't under direct sunlight, instead under an incandescent bulb. I smelled the gas coming out of the airlock and it doesn't smell "skunky," and overall it shouldn't have had (hardly) any direct sunlight. I used my...

So, I was reading just now about how most folks generally recommend tinted bottles (brown) for their beer so that it doesn't spoil from light/sunlight. This all makes perfect sense to me in how the beer gets skunked. I'm currently working on my first batch of beer, and my question is this...