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These are all great tips, I appreciate and thank everyone that contributed to this post, hopefully it will help others as much as it's helped me!

Marcos, give it some more time. Check your gravity again in 3-4 days. I'm a new brewer also. I leave my beer in the primary fermenter 3 weeks or more before I bottle. From my limited experience my beers ferment very vigourous for the first 2-3 days and the fermentation slows but the beer is...

Ok I know this subject has been beat to death. I'm new to brewing, did my first all grain last weekend. I used a free calculator from tastybrew.com Very simple and straight forward. So I wanted to try a more sophisticated software and got the free trial of beersmith 2.0, well it's just to...

+1 on the extract kit to start off. It's the most foolproof way to start and make good beer. I don't know what you want to grow, I'm assuming hops, do a search for hop rhizomes. Do a lot of reading here on different subjects, a wealth of information here.

Just wondering what's your best tip for a new all grain brewer? I know there are some award winning experts here and others that have been craft brewing for a long time. Hopeing that you can share with some of us new guys some of your best tips based on experience. I did my first all grain last...

Hard to say, don't know where your hand and arm had been before placing in your brew. Hopefully it will be ok.

OK, that sounds alright, you have some good krausen also good. You need to know what temp you are fermenting at. Also what temp did you pitch your yeast?

I've seen where some people have used twist off bottles and recapped. I would not suggest this. Try some Samuel Adams called Brewer's Choice comes in a 12 pack of amber bottles you can recap and it has 2 bottles of 6 different types of beer so you may find one or two you like and then make a...

I advertised on Craiglist that I was looking for Grolsch or swingtop bottles and picked up 125, 16 ouncers in great shape for $40. I also like Sam Adams beer (brewers choice) and just save those I've got plenty of bottles this way.

+1 Prime the whole batch!

Don't clean the krausen, just have patience at least 48 hours more to see what happens and do install a blow off tube as suggested. What temp is your fermentation?

Try this: http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/priming.html

1/2" ID works for me.

Thanks but I used 1lb. of honey in my brew and there's no calculation for that.

Wondering where I can get a Corona mill at the best price? Thanks

North Idaho here, I went with Cascade and Willamette.

Did my first all grain yesterday BIAB. According to the recipe I was supposed to have an OG of 1.060, I hit 1.061, so I presume I did a good job. How does one calculate efficiency?

A full boil will give you a better brew, extract or partial mash. Check out the local thrift shops, sometimes you can get a great deal on a big brewpot.

Yes, I agree with you, it's going to boil again, keep it simple, we know how much cleaning and sanitizing we have to do in brewing so one less thing to worry about.

Yes, that looks like a great 10 gallon pot!