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It's in the fermenter now. Went with Galena, Cascade and Tettering and might be a bit on the light side. Not sure how it's supposed to look and smell after cooled but seemed a bit dark and you could certainly smell the darker malts, made have just made a stout but that's ok as I was drinking a...

First round in the bottles. Went ahead and sampled before bottling just to make sure I wasn't wasting my time and it's ok, still sweet for my taste but my taste leans to porters so go figure ales and certainly lagers are sweet tasting to me. Have a feeling the wife will like it once it...

I know this is an old thread but what was the volume of here, 5 gallons? What were the taste results?

Going to do it enough so I can create something close to a Deschutes Black Butte Porter as I can't get those here and so far nothing else has come close that I can get. Also want to be able to the same with Rogue Choco Stout which I can get here but only in the 22oz and that's a bit much for a 5...

Actually instructions said to give it a swirl around the mouth to confirm the sugars were gone if you suspected fermentation was done. Wasn't expecting "beer", was tasting for proof it was ready to move on.

Figuring I would screw up this first run in this thing I'm not expecting much anyway. Initial sample today was sweet and had a lager taste to it, not good considering it's supposed to be a Red Ale. I'm not surprised though as the extract was way heavy on the maple side or maybe that's what they...

Wife bought me one of those Beer Machine beginner kits and all seems well enough, not expecting much anyway. The first batch is ready and I had planned on bottling it as I have no interest in drinking that much beer at one time or taking up half my frig for weeks. The problem is some of my...