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Congrats. I reccommend the Midwest Pumpkin Ale kit if you want to do a nice seasonal fall beer. I have mine fermenting now, and the wort tasted absolutely glorious. A very easy kit for beginners like us.

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No... Fifty at once was my own idea of what hell would be like. Absolutely awful.

Is there anything Oxyclean can't do?

Extract on this particular brew. Maybe i was exaggerating a LITTLE bit on the amount of pumpkin... Haha.

Thanks for the tip. Yeah, since it was my first go-around, I didn't really think to soak the bottles for more than 5-10 minutes. I used steel wool to scrub the glue off. It was a mess. I'll soak them for longer next time.

It's a real pain. I was ready to start kegging about halfway through.

So, I got the my first batch into bottles yesterday. For those of you who are just starting out, let me assuage your fears and say that no matter what you can possibly F up during your first brew day, I F'd up, and my FG turned out to style and the beer tastes like beer. RDWHAHB. Seriously...

60 oz? Man up. I'll probably double that. :mug: Apparently this is a popular kit. I'm starting it tonight, I believe.

Ordered a set today. Brewing hopefully next week or this weekend, depending how fast my stuff gets here from Northwest... I'll report back with my findings..

Fascinating. The guy with the blog got his for 68 bucks and is doing 5 gallons? These things should work like a charm for 2.5 gal boils. Definitely will be on my wishlist. Thanks guys for all the info and research.

If you find out, let me know, that would be a PERFECT solution for me and a lot of other people with space issues.

Cream ale. Light like an American beer. None of the cold-fermenting problems of a lager.

Excellent idea, thanks!

I've had no problems so far with patience, knowing that once I get this brew bottled and get it going to conditioning, I'll have another started, etc.. It's that perspective that has allowed me to see that I'm going to have a nice pipeline of beer going at all times, and to me it justifies the...

Man, that's tempting. Especially since I'll be going with an electric stovetop for a lot of my boils where it'd be tough to get water boiling in a bigger pot... You guys think the big one in that set will do the job for 2.5 gal brews without any significant risk for disastrous boilover?

Homebrewing is maybe the only hobby on earth where you are creating a consumable and bugs are perfectly acceptable per a majority of the room. Unless your hobby is bug-eating. F that, though. Beer is so much better.

Congratulations. I'm jealous. Mine's still fermenting. Can't wait to pop the top on the first one. I have a good feeling about it, thanks to the incredible help of everone here, I'm feeling very confident.

Hey guys... Considering for my second brew something a little more palatable to some friends who are not quite versed / haven't developed a taste for stronger microbrews... A large number of them are drinkers of Genny Cream Ale, which I don't mind in terms of a "drink it to get drunk" beer...

Would be curious as to how to deal with this inconsistency when it comes up also...