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The biggest thing you want to consider is brew size. If you're doing a 5-gallon batch, you start with six to seven gal of water, depending on the recipe (lower amount with extract). Heating that amount of water on a stove, especially electric is difficult. I live in Maryland and we steam crabs...

@boolean - My son bought me the More Beer Premium Home Brewing Kit for Father's Day this year. It comes with everything you need, including a recipe kit (there are several to choose from) and a wort chiller which came in very handy. After doing a bit of study, decided I wanted a few more items...

A 15 lb CO2 cylinder will fill 20-30 five gallon Corny Kegs once it is filled.

All, thanks so much for all the help and advice. We put a few bottles in the frig yesterday and popped the top on a few. For my first time brewing and what I found out was a difficult beer to brew for a first timer, it turned out really well. Most important, flavor was very good. Vanilla Mango...

@balrog - thanks much. I'd read a few things about kegging keeping beer longer, but wasn't sure if it was that much longer to be worth the expense. I wouldn't mind getting into kegging at some point, but since this was my first attempt at brewing, I didn't want to get into all the extra expense.

@homebeerbrewer - I apprectiate the congrats and thanks for the advice on patience. I ended up with the beer in the fermenter for 16 days. And I have a plastic carboy that came with my kit from MoreBeer.

@RM_MN - will do. Thanks for the advice. Would kegging instead of bottling slow down staling?

@BrewZer, @GoodTruble - unfortunately, we started bottling at 4:00 PM Eastern, and I didn't see your advice until we were finished. Next time, I'll do that and as GoodTruble says, see how it compares. I do plan to leave it in the bottles for two weeks before cracking one open. Thanks for all the...

@salli4102 - the recipe called for adding hops on Day 3 of fermentation for five days, then remove those and put in another set on Day 8 for another five days. It's a Hazy IPA. First beer I ever brewed, so just following the directions.

@GoodTruble - thanks much.

@hotbeer - you are correct, the Haze Craze IPA called for two dry hoppings, each for 5 days. The second one comes out today. I added and swapped them very quickly, but am worried about O2, especially today when I take the second set out. Fermentation appears to be done and won't be any CO2...

Today is Day 14 in the Fermenter. According to my Haze Craze recipe from More Beer, the final hops come out today and it's time to bottle. Wondering if I can wait a day or two more, as other activities this weekend are conflicting with the time needed to bottle. Is it critical to bottle right...

I loved their Christmas Ale and was successful getting some each year for a few years running here in Maryland. Sorry to see them go out of business. I'll miss it during the Holiday season.

So here's an update on Day 8. Today was the day to swap out the initial dry hops and add the second batch. That went well, quickly swapped them and got the Carboy sealed back up again. What was new today is that the Krausen appears to be reducing and there was a new, lighter colored layer on the...

@wdavis2003 - yeah, that's what I learned after getting the kit and doing my research before starting. I am worried about oxyenation since I have to add hops twice during fermenting. I did the first hopping on day three. Sanitized everything very well, cracked the lid and got the hop bag in as...

@seatazzz - Cali yeast came with the kit I got. Reading the temp with a stick on temperature strip on the outside of the carboy.

Hello - First time brewer here. I'm on day seven of fermentation. I've got a nice foam head on the wort/beer. It's not growing in size but doesn't seem to be decreasing much either. Also I see a lot of very small particulates circulating (moving up the side of fermenter) very slowly inside the...

@doug293ca, mac_1103 - thanks for the welcome and the feedback. I have loved Hazy IPAs and more recently have moved to Milkshake Double Hazy Fruited IPAs (traditionalists will probably flinch at that, but I also like German Lagers, Porter and Stouts). However, after getting my kit and reading...

mac_1103 - Thanks. I was just wondering about the temperature differential within the carboy. I was concerned that you might get a reading on the exterior or from a sensor in a thermowell in the center of the carboy that would be within range, but that other areas of the carboy would be out of...

Day_Tripper - thanks much for the reply. I was very curious about whether fuild in a 6 gallon carboy distributes heat and cooling evenly or not. From your experiments, sounds like there's really nothing to worry about in terms of an uneven temperature range within the carboy. One less thing to...