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excellent. thanks.

This is a picture of the bottom of the carboy. The yeast looks like it is growing...and the top of the wort has a bit of a film/foam to it. Is this good news? P.S. I hope this picture uploads... Chris

The reason I am so concerned is that my first batch (it was a kit) pretty much began fermenting immediately. With this second one, a recipe I sort of put together with the help of someone at my brew hut, i pitched the yeast and it has done nothing now for over 15 hours. This is normal? The...

So it's not ruined? I will see if I can warm it up a little bit to get the yeast started! Thanks! Chris

So I finally got everything done last night. I transferred the wort to the carboy after it had cooled (probably well beyond 90 degrees, actually) Is that a problem that it cooled so much? I checked the temperature of the full carboy (3.5 gallons water, 1.5 gallons wort) and it was at 64...

I can definitely fit both into one bag...no problem! That's what I'll do! Thanks for the help!

some say just add the coriander and the orange peel together...others say to just put the orange peel in without a bag...what to do?!?!?! I've got 15 minutes to decide...

So... I am brewing a blue moon esque type beer. The wort is on the stove right now. It is brewing with: 6lb wheat lme 1 oz hallertau (in a tea like bag) My question is this: I have two more tea like bags and I have three more things I'm adding with 10 minutes left in the boil...

Well, I made it to the bottling stage. Two weeks in the fermenter, and now, in the bottles. I plan to leave the bottles in a dark room for 7-10 days before trying one. I must say though, it smelled wonderful in the bottling bucket as I was bottling! Hopefully no bacteria and everything is...

Thanks...I was just worried and wanted some feedback before the night was over... And sorry for the double post...won't make a habit of it.

Thanks for the help! I messed up initially by not taking a reading of the wort, so I'm not sure what the OG was. I am brewing an abbey ale. I did sanitize the thief before inserting it into the carboy. So hopefully I'll be fine with that. So, some of you suggest waiting before bottling...

Okay... So, my ale has been in the primary for 11 days now, 8 with the airlock. There has seemed to be no bubbly activity with the airlock for probably 5-6 days now. I decided to take a hydrometer reading tonight and I have a couple of questions... When I took the rubber lid off there the...

Okay... So, my ale has been in the primary for 11 days now, 8 with the airlock. There has seemed to be no bubbly activity with the airlock for probably 5-6 days now. I decided to take a hydrometer reading tonight and I have a couple of questions... When I took the rubber lid off there...

So you suggest waiting 3-4 weeks before bottling, and then waiting an additional 3-4 weeks before refrigerating one and trying it?!

Man, I really need to get a second carboy...if brews will take such a long time I'll want to have multiple brews brewing at a time. Ugh.

Then why do my instructions say to go ahead and bottle after 10 days? I want to make sure I get as tasty of a beer as possible, especially for my first one. But, as assumed, I'm anxious to taste...but I'm not willing to compromise the process.

Four weeks?!?! Good grief. That's a long time. :( The book and articles that I have read suggest 7-10 days. And then in the bottles for another two weeks. What is the advantage in leaving in the carboy for four weeks??? ANd would you leave it it in there that long with the airlock on...

So, I recently decided to dabble in home brewing. After a bunch of reading I went to my local beer home store and purchased all the necessary things to begin my own brew. I chose an abbey ale to start. It has been fermenting for just over 3 days now. It is resting in a comfortably dark...