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Thanks for the reply, that was my first thought, but I noticed that the numbers don't usually add up to 100%. So I thought I must have been wrong.

I just copied the following part of a recipe from the Honey Basil Ale thread as an example. I have seen these percentages with alot of recipes, what exactly do they mean? 71.4 % 5.00 Light Dry Malt Extract 14.3 % 1.00 Canadian Honey Malt (Gambrinus in original recipe) 7.1 % 0.50 Wheat...

Thanks for the info everyone. I read through the sticky, I think the first few batches I make, I'll probably do a few dry and backsweeten a few, then once I get the hang of it, may try the pasturization route.

So to do this, just bottle with the priming sugar let it carb, then pasturize and it will still keep the carb?

Thanks for the info. If bottling, I think it would be best to probably backsweeten a little before carbing and bottling to prevent bottle bombs. I usually like mine dry anyway, but I was looking at some options to maybe make a split batch, half sweet half dry.

I see alot of recipes that say ciders will ferment out dry. Would sweet be the opposite of dry? And if so, wouldn't you always ferment until it is complete, which if I understand, would be dry and then backsweeten?

Thanks for all the info, I checked out the pro/con thread. I'll be buying a kit a few weeks before I get back so it's there waiting for me. I saw one that had 2 BB carboys an ale pail and a bottling bucket with a bunch of other accessories for around $130 I believe, I'll probably end up...

:off: trying to get started brewing after I get back from my deployment and return to Hawaii, C-Rider, are there any local homebrew shops on the island? I live over on the Windward side. You can PM back if you want, I don't want to snipe your post. Just got excited to see someone on here from...

Also, :off: are there any major fundamental differences or advantages/disadvantages from using buckets vs a carboy?

Ok, I knew to take a sample in a seperate vessel, I just didn't know it was ok to open to use a baster to pull the sample out. I will make sure to sanitize before hand though. Thank you so much for the reply.

I apologize if this has been asked before, I couldn't find anything using search. I am currently deployed, but I want to try home brewing when I return from Afghanistan this fall. I plan on buying one of the "ale pail" brewing kits. My question is, how do you take the hydrometer readings to...