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Wow, great post! I did notice that I have absolutely no sediment in bottles, where as my friends' brews always did

Really? Brew It Yourself, are they good? That's a lot closer to me in Tomball

Clonefarmer, the IPA doesn't taste bad just kind of thin or watery, would that be lack of crystal malt or the water issue?

The only place in the Houston Metro is DeFalcos as far as I can tell. Heck I wish there were a store in far north or nw houston

I second Jason's response to the minerals question. Jason have u checked out AustinHomeBrew.com? Lots of kits available, $100 purchase free shipping. I like Defalcos, but do they have the same commercial beer kits, ie Real Ale IPA. Where is Danbury?

My wife bought me the starter kit @ DeFalcos in Houston.

Tap water, is that the better option?

That wass lack of crystal malt, not lake of

Birvine: I used 2 gals water, it still only produced 48 bottles, so I guess it was lake of crystal malt? Yooper: that is great info on Coopers, and I have been looking @ all the kits on Austin Brew's site, spent about 4 hrs @ work the other day lokking @ all their kits. A friend and I will be...

Recipe: 3.75 lbs Cooper s IPS malt extract 2 lbs unhopped extract 1 tsp water salts 1 oz hops 3/4 cup corn sugar 1 pkg yeast 1 pkg bru vigor

I made my first batch of IPA (and first ever batch of brew), did 6 days in primary, 3 weeks in secondary, and has been bottled for 2 week now. Tried my first one last night, sorry couldn't wait 3 weeks. Anyway, it had good bitter, but was lacking what my wife and I both thought was body, sort...