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That sounds really easy mcaple. Thanks! I am probably the least handy DIYer on here, but I think I can handle that.

So I end up with about 4 gallons of wort. I get it in the fermenter and place the fermenter in an ice bath to get it down. It takes me about 40 mins to get it down to 75 degrees. And I pitch the yeast. At that point I figured it's close enough, I am beyond ready for a shower and food. I...

Thank you Zombie Jesus, I am finally at the boil. After all my tribulations, I console myself with more beer. At this point I add the Northern Brewing hops. So I have about 5 boilovers all-together. All through the mash, this propane burner worked like a champ. It stalled maybe...

Since I only got 3 gallons of wort out of the mash, I added another gallon to the 2 I had heating in the 5-gallon sparge pot. At this point I am about 15 mins behind schedule on getting the boil started. While I waited on the now 3gallons to get up to 170, I go back outside and try to get a...

And then suddenly it got away from me. Temp slipped below 150 so I added more flame. For 5 minutes it was fine and stable, and then suddenly it jumped up to 175 degrees at one point. I turned the flame off and it continued to rise to around 190 so I panicked and put it in an ice bath instead...

So far so good. This being my first time a spent the first 20 mins just smelling the mash. and sampling the cream ale form my last extract batch. I was able to keep the temp at 150 for about 20 mins. I used four gallons of water to mash with. In hindsight, I had room enough to use 5 gallons...

Ok so so here we go. Yesterday I brewed my Amber Waves Independence Ale. Got my $36 POS turkey fryer from Wal-Mart, assembled without instructions because none were included. Amazed I didn't blow myself up yesterday. 6lbs Belgian Pale Ale Malt 4oz Briess 2-row Caramel 10 1lb Briess 2-row...

The name is Brandon and I'm a new homebrewer. I've already learned a lot lurking on this forum so I thought I'd sign up and say hi! So far I've brewed a porter with the Mr. Beer kit I got for Xmas, and Ive got a hefeweizen in the fermenter now using the starter kit I picked up from...