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I am starting my first beer here in the next couple of weeks, and I need to find a place for it to ferment. The only place in my house that is consistently one temperature is my basement, but it is around 64 degrees all the time. Will this work?

I'm sure he was sanitizing it of course :p Before I use anything I sanitize it in my bucket, tubing, thermometer. Hydrometer, spoon, etc.

Also would it help to move it to a cooler location? It's been fermenting at around 70.

So my skeeter pee reached an FG of .998 so I added in five campden tablets, sorbate, and sparkolloid. I have done some reading and I am afraid that there was still too much activity for the wine to be stabilized. Will this be a problem? If there still is some work for the yeast to do, will it...

I have been struggling to find any great Home Brew stores in St. Louis, I know that in a city like St. Louis there has to be at least one. I've been buying all my equipment and ingredients at a store called Worm's Way which is a gardening store with a small home brew section attached. It is...

How is that even possible? Did you just drink the wort cold?

All right, haha, nothing wrong with getting a little off topic :D

For my starter I just rehydrated the yeast, added a tiny amount of nutrient and slowly introduced around 4 tables spoons at a time of the skeeter pee until it started bubbling, then I would add another small amount and just continued until I had around a quart of actively fermenting wine.

Yes, I will probably have to add that stuff this Sunday

My Skeeter Pee is approaching it's final gravity--or at least what Lon believes it will reach--and I am concerned about bottling. I have a filling wand and a bucket with a spigot, is it really that simple? I know I have to sanitize everything beforehand, but do I just have to put in the desired...

So I have officially ordered the American Wheat extract kit from Northern Brewer, can't wait :fro: I entered the recipe into the hopville Beer Calculus plugin and it turns out that technically it is not really an American Wheat :cross: . It's just a hair over in terms of bitterness. If I...

Many thanks man! I will definitely be ordering from these guys, I can't wait!

I'm convinced, where are these $19 cases you speak of? And what is the final yield in terms of volume?

I guess picking up a kit is my best bet eh? Wouldn't I save money just getting all the accoutrements separately? I suppose every budding brewer must start somewhere.

Highway 61 Roadhouse is a killer Cajun style place that often has live music. There's also the Bistro on Grand which is probably the coolest jazz place in town.

I am halfway through my first batch of Skeeter Pee, and I'm already planning what my next batch will be! I definitely want to brew some kind of beer, preferably an IPA of some sort, or something comparably awesome :) . Do you guys have any suggestions for recipes? I can't wait to get my first...

I have bleach and water mixed together in a spray bottle--in safe proportions. Can I first rinse off then spray my stirring spoon and have it be sufficiently sanitized for stirring my must? I would like to stir a couple times a day, but would really prefer to do it this way as opposed to filling...

I'd love to see that, any chance you could provide a link? I couldn't find it :confused:

I am four days or so into my first batch of Skeeter Pee--easily the largest and most complicated recipe I have tried for. My airlock is putting along nicely, and I think it is nearly time for me to add my last bottle of juice and rack into a new vessel. The recipe calls for a carboy to rack...

I just got some Campden tablets to add to my Skeeter Pee, and my question is, what sort of ratio should I use? The packaging gives no indication of how much to add, and the tutorial doesn't mention tablets. :(