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thanks for the replies. @staticfritz Do you have any more pics of your kettle? Yours seems to have a lot of features I was looking into. Is the top hole you have for recirculation? For the heating element, I have only seen 1.5" TC heating elements? like this...

I'm in the process of switching to electric and am looking at getting a custom kettle from Spike. I'm planning on starting with an induction burner to get my feet wet, but want to be able to use the kettle for a traditional three vessel system brew kettle down the line. So I want something...

Yeah it is an extract. I guess maybe it's just dark. Oh well its delish!

really? I'm usually pretty good about oxidation and avoiding it.....no strong flavors. Like I said its really good just color. The couple I have had were just in six pack holders so could have got exposed to more light than ideal but they are in a closet. Could light exposure be the issue?

So question about beer color. I made a sierra nevada pale ale clone, and first of all its INCREDIBLE, very close to the original. My question lies with the color of my beer. When I bottled the color was spot on. Just where I wanted it to be. Now at drinking time after 3 weeks in bottles...

Just curious, what freezer did you find for $131?

Thanks for the replies guys! Just as a follow up....you say I may run into problems. What kind of problems? Are we talking possible lid blow off or could this produce off flavors? I'm probably just going to order a new bucket but was really trying to avoid it. What is the worst case senario...

Hey guys, I'm looking into getting into wine and had a quick question. I have fermenting buckets for beer and they are I think 6.5 gallons. All the things I have read call for 8 gallon fermenters for a 6 gallon batch. Is it possible to to do 6 gallon batches in the beer fermentor or do I...

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Hi all, So I just received my first brew kit for christmas and had a quick question. As you may guess I'm very excited to get started in the obsession and want to taste my first brew as soon as I can. The only problem is that I am returning to college in 5 or 6 days so my question is...