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Well the beer doesn't have that fuel smell it actually smells good for once, and I believe I kept it around the low 60 degrees if I remember right.

Sorry for not updating this post in a while but the key was waiting longer during the fermentation. The beer turned out great but the next morning I woke up with a splitting headache. I chalked it up to drinking a lot of the great tasting beer I made but later even after having just 3 or 4...

Ya I just bought them and they are just plain 5 gal buckets, I guess I didn't think much about that. Well they were cheap and I guess I can have new sanitizer buckets now. So if I decide to use a secondary fermenter when should I make that move to switch them or is it even that big of deal and I...

Ok fellow brewers I have received my next kit and am ready to try again. I thought I would post what I have and what I think should happen throughout this process and hopefully some of you can help me fine tune where my problems are. My next 5 gallon batch is gonna be the happy holiday ale from...

Ok thanks for the tips and I think when I get my next batch ready to go I will put it up and see if I'm missing something else besides keeping my temps cooler. Both of these have been kits that were prepackaged so I just followed the direction with the two week fermentation then two weeks in...

Well the pumpkin was safale us-05 dry ale yeast, and I had it sitting in a closet and the temp was around 70, I can't find the name for the other batch but it was also a dry yeast. The first batch was only in a Carboy for two weeks then bottled for two weeks. And with the pumpkin it was in a...

Hey fellow brewers I just got done making my second batch of beer but they both kinda tasted the same. I have a really basic setup not much testing equipment. My first batch was an American ale and the second was a pumpkin ale. Both had a great flavor when I was putting them into my primary...