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Kölsch is brewed with an ale yeast. (As is Altbier.) It's then lagered to allow the yeast to clean esters up and bring the taste closer to a pilsner or helles. But I agree, waiting is no fun!

It's not so much a question of a hornet's nest about secondary as the fact that Kölsch is essentially a lagered ale. The lagering implies some sort of secondary.

Once I switched to kegging, I never use my bottling bucket anymore. At least not as a bottling bucket. Now, I usually use it to hold the milled grains from my Barley Crusher.

Triumph is in Princeton, not Victory, but both are winners.

Or at least 22 bottles, so you can both have one on his/her 21st birthday.

I plan for the next month or so in order to have ingredients on hand, but beyond that my mood changes.

What's the temperature where you're fermenting? That, to a large extent, will determine the speed of the ferment. Also, do you have a hydrometer yet? That's the only way you can tell for certain the progress of the fermentation.

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How old was the LME? LME tends to darken over time.

Did you keep the yeast covered when you rehydrated? If so, there shouldn't be a problem. To attach a chiller to the faucet, you typically use an adapter. They're pretty cheap.

All the grains eventually have to be milled. You can either do it yourself or the vendor can do it for you. I still hand crank the mill at the beginning of the brew day.

I revisited favorites when I switched to all-grain to see if I could brew the "same" beer with both extract and grain.

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I would also be amazed if the outside temperature were a steady 36.

Now the real question is: will you be able to let your beer age enough, or will you drink it all young?

Smith's is a northern nut brown, but there are southern or London nut browns that are rather sweet.

Step away from the beer...

Drink good beer while reading about homebrewing.

By "old stuff", what exactly do you mean? LME, DME, grains, liquid yeast, dry yeast, weasels, hop pellets, hop plugs, candi sugar? In part the answer will depend on how they were stored.