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Its all pre done for me, I wanted to keep it simple for the first time. I swirled the cake from the bottom and if it doesn't drop in a week I will bottle it

Measured with a hydrometer. the kit was an all grain pre boiled everything done, just a big ole bag-o-wort thats all grain some yeast and some other little things. but yeah if it does not drop I will bottle it. another question is, its a dark lager but the samples taste almost like a light...

OG was 1.050 ambient temp was around 74 the yeast was coopers ale yeast (dry sprinkled on top) and it has been fermenting for 2 weeks now at least

My gravity is stuck at 1.020 and I was wondering if you can re pitch yeast or do something else if swirling it doesn't work?

Its been 4 or 5 days and the gravity is the same, I gave it a swirl.

I have only done one starter kit and I am still in the midst of it but if my eyes dont deceive me I would have to say that is foam from pouring your wort into the bucket or carboy and you have sprinkled your yeast over it. that's what I did and it looked like that right there. worked fine I saw...

I would save all my bad beers in a giant tub, I mean giant. around 200G tub. then when its full empty out your neighbors swimming pool and fill it with beer. Now that would be a pool!

I will have to go put a thermometer in that room which I haven't done yet, Id say its 65-70. I placed the hydrometer in water and it hit 1.000 so I assume its calibrated. and the reading if your a few degrees off is minimal, I believe it said its around +0.0016GR at 70 degrees which is not...

Yeah I will let it sit for the next 5 days then re check, but its safe to assume it started at 1.050GR because the kit says it should be at 1.050 and I followed the directions completely? I'm just worried maybe the GR was at like 1.020 already when I started? unlikely?

Okay I am having no problems reading and such i just had a quick question. I bought a kit which included a bag of pre boiled all grain wort and yeast bottling sugar and such, you add 4 liters of water and the yeast and everything else included other than the sugar. On to my question. The box...

I believe I did get coopers yeast, it was in a yellow metallic package and I never looked at the name.

Stared at my carboy of Munich dark lager for about 20 minutes and labeled it, not very interesting but my first brew!

So just because there are no bubbles does not mean there is no fermentation going on at the moment? I thought Co2 was the by product of fermentation?

So I pitched my yeast in my brew house kit http://www.brewerylane.com/beer/brewhouse.html Bought from my local brewery supply store. essentially it contained a bag of already boiled all grain wort, yeast, sodium biocarb (or something like that. a balancing agent anyways) and some bottling sugar...

Yeah taken out of context my title is quite hilarious! I did not even notice that till now. Thank you all for the very fast responses!

Could I not just sterilize my 1/2 inch tubing and siphon off enough for a test every time? I just don't want to go buying everything when I'm not sure if I will stick with brewing. I would buy a wine thief after the 2nd or 3rd brew. But is siphoning acceptable?

yeah I waas going to pick one up today but most brew stores are closed mondays here for some reason haha. so tomorrow I'l be picking one up for sure. and a few more stoppers heh.

Il for sure look into that book! thanks!... Oh stupid problems of the first time doing something. I placed the stopper into the neck and submerged it about 1 cm into the neck of the carboy so now when I rack it into secondary I have to cut out the stopper! oh well.

My directions told me to put it in a primary.. the cooler because I was not thinking. then after 3-5 days I transfer to secondary and wait 12-15 days then bottle. buttt.... after about a day I figured I did something stupid so I poured everything from the cooler into the carboy. everything. put...

Thank you all, I went to my nearest home brew hobby store and picked up a dark lager kit, its the easiest of its kind then il move onto extract or all grain. came with a bag of wort, bottling sugar, yeast, and possibly a few other things I do not remember. I also picked up two glass carboys 23L...