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So my first two batches look quite darker than they should be. I wonder if while steeping the grain if I agitated the bag too much. Do y'all think this will be an issue for changing the taste of the finished product?

The lack of slugde and sediment is the reason I want to use a secondary. Think I'll give it at least a week for it to settle out of suspension and have a seat at the bottom of the bucket

Just wondering what the general concensus is on the subject. I've read a week after and also read once the bubbling stops you can transfer. I started a batch on thursday evening and haven't seen much action in the airlock all day today after it having a constant bubble every second or two...

I guess it's possible that I got more of the trub sediment than I should have in my sample. Guess i'll let it settle a bit and make sure to pull from the top next time. Thanks for the tips

Hydrometer is calibrated, just verified it (since i hadn't done that prior to putting it in the wort)

And to measure I pulled some wort out with a baster and put it in a test tube, read the measurement just below the meniscus (been in bio and chem lab enough to know my way around this step)

I used the northern brewer kit 1.25 gal water 10 mins of steeping bring to boil, at boil add 1.5 lbs of gold malt extract and 7g of kent goldings and boil for 45 mins 30 mins into boil add 7g fuggle hops remove from boil, add 2oz honey I filtered the trub out while transferring to primary Added...

Extrace recipe of the White house honey ale

I would imagine that it's at most a pint or so short, probably less though. Guess I was just surpirsed by the high OG, I was expecting something lower. Should have been around 1.064. Was planning on tranferring to a secondary in few days but the fermentation seems to have slowed way down...

I finished brewing a 1 gallon recipe and I boiled off a bit more water than I expected to so the volume of my wort was a bit less than a gallon. The OG reading i took when put into the primary was 1.172. My question is when i tranfer the wort into a secondary in a couple days can I add a...

Out of curiosity, how do you know when you need a blow off tube or not? Is it certain types of yeast or does that knowledge just come with experience of watching the wort?

I feel like a kid wiating on Santa Claus while i sit in my living room waiting for the UPS guy to drop off supplies :ban:

Thanks for the tips! My thought proccess was to use a 2 gal plastic bucket for the primary and rack to a 1 gal carboy after. I didn't think the carboy would be enough room just incase of some excited yeast.

Just curious for 1 gal recipies if a 2 gal bucket is too large for a primary fermenter? Seems like the less air space means less chance of getting unwanted bacteria into the wort. What are y'all thoughts?

I've been reading that temperature control during the fermenting is huge in quality of the finished beer. My basement is most likely where I will store the fermenting beer, but I have to wonder if the temperature is too cool. My basement tends to stay around 67-68 degrees. It's been a while...

As I am looking through recipes my wife walks by and gives me the look and says "can you make anything you want?" to which my response was "I can try like hell". I get a smile as she walks out and says "Well, you know what type of beer I like...." I think this could be the start of something...

Thanks for the suggestions, part of it is that my wife and I (moreso my wife) don't drink that much beer. I like to have a variety of beer in my fridge so having 5 gal of something to drink would probably take me a while to get through. That being said the kit I have came with the supplies for...

Thanks for the tips y'all, I'm looking for some local suppliers right now!

I've spent a good bit of time looking around online and doing reading where I can since this is something new to me. I have found some small batch (1 gal) recipies that look like more my style for now until I have a few runs under my belt. Currently the kit I recieved contains: 5 gal...