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Thanks guys, I'll post back when I get it to give everyone an idea of the quality.

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Started my second batch yesterday. I sort of screwed up and pitched the rehydrated yeast at around 80 degrees. It's a true brew amber all malt. Within 6 hours had a very vigorous fermentation. Good thing I was using a 1inch blowoff tube from my carboy or this thing would have blown for sure...

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Picked up a turkey fryer at walmart a couple of weeks ago on sale for $34. Comes with a 30 qt. aluminum pot , burner, thermometer and more.

I just bottled my first batch a wheat and let it sit in the primary for 24 days, cold crashed the last 2 days. From what I've read here most people do 3-4 weeks in the primary before bottling/kegging.

Yes, these used to be $28 shipped, now it will cost you more than double that.

The only reasoned I boiled this water was to get rid of any chlorine and that's why I boiled my tap water for the brew. I believe you want some minerals in your brew water thats why I used spring water for topping off. Trust me the tap water up here is excellent.

I just did my second batch of extract. I used 2.5 gallons of tap water, boiled, comes from a huge aquafir (underground well water) in n. idaho. Then finished the 5 gallon batch off with bottled spring water. Last batch I used all bottled spring water. I think my tap water is pretty good but I...

Ya gotta love an ex-laywer!

Thanks, yes I understand that, yeast are dormant now.

I think I've got it down. Sanitizing bottles in my dishwasher, they were all cleaned with bottle brush and oxyclean then double rinsed before. Oh by the way it's an American Wheat true brew. 24 days fermenting, last 2 days cold crashed, beer is at 38 degrees. Going to add the 5 oz of priming...

Well there was icing in these buckets for donuts, cakes and frosting for bakery goods. These are food grade, they have to be. They still had the label on them even though they were cleaned up pretty well in their commercial dishwasher I would imagine. I'll just clean them up with oxyclean and...

Hi all, went to the local market today and picked up two 5 gallon icing (frosting) buckets with lids, gaskets, and handles for a buck a piece in the bakery section. For newbies like me on a budget I thought this was a good deal. With a little modification you could have a fermenter, secondary or...

I've got 125 Grolsch 16oz. bottles that I got for 40 cents each. I just put an ad on Craiglist that I was looking for beer bottles.

Well thanks flushdrew42 and all, after further research I'll be leaving my brew alone at least one more week. I'll give the yeast a chance to clean things up a bit more. May even go 4 weeks in the primary. Anyone else ever done this with an American wheat? It seems time and patience are my...

So I guess I'll just leave it another week to be on the safe side. If I wanted to take a FG reading do I just sterilize a turkey baster and pull some of the beer out and then if it's not to the specified final gravity clean and sanitize the airlock and replace? The batch is in a 5 gallon glass...

Thanks guys, fermenting at about 68 degrees. I've got a hydrometer. So what's the best way to test with it. Sorry I'm really green at this. Would rather here advice here than what the instructions say. Final gravity should be 1.012-1.014 according to instructions.

Hi all, well my first batch is getting close to bottle (or not) a True Brew American Wheat. 2 weeks today in the primary. My question is I'm still getting some activity in the airlock every 10 minutes or so. I think the kit said to bottle after one week (wasn't going to do that). I've read here...

Catman, check out Walmart. I just bought a 30 qt turkey freyer, lid, burner, thermometer, regulator hose, everything you need except for the propane tank. On sale for $34.