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Title says it all... Warmer weather coming around, I figured a nice light beer would be good. Plus the garage would be nice and warm for fermentation... You guys have any extract plus grain recipes...

You guys must think I'm an idiot. Anyway, my primary was a bucket, with a hole in the lid and a blow off tube. The hole was too small for the airlock I had, so I just left the blow off tube, with the other end submerged in water. Using simple logic and physics this is no problem. After the...

I'm planning ahead for my second brew. My first batch was more of an impulse experiment than anything... So i'm in question asking mode... I ended up with around 4.2 gallons of beer in the bottles. I'm pretty sure I started out with less than 5 gallons in my primary. When I racked to the...

I missed this, I think East Coast Hydroponics is the same store as HomeBrew Too

There is HomeBrew Too, right off of the LIE in queens. Main Street exit I believe. I had the equipment from my dad's wine making days. They had all the ingredients I wanted. Selection was slightly lacking, but call ahead and ask if they have what you are looking for. Karp's homebrewing...

At this point, should I just move these to a fridge or at least a cooler environment?

I bottled my first brew three days age... stuck the bottles in a plastic container with a lid. I opened the lid and heard some hissing. Didn't have time to dissect how many where actually hissing. I think it's like 2-4 out of 30. I drank one yesterday, it had carbonation already. I may have...

I noticed that some botles are hissing? Do i need to retighten the cap or re-cap completely? I am using polish beer bottles and one of those red cappers that you press on two sides and the cap snaps on. EDIT: posted in the bottling forum. please disregard

So I opened a beer. It has carbonation. Tastes like... well... beer. Is there concern about too much carbonation? i.e. is the amount of carbonation proportional to the time the bottles sit at room temperature? Do i need to get them to a cool place after a while? If so, will a basement...

When you have this in an ice bath, do you stir the wort occasionally? Or just let it be? How long does this take? I thought time is of the essence once you stop boiling your wort.

I plan on brewing my second batch. I guess I should of asked this before my first. Here goes. On my first batch I saved about two bags of ice from my fridge ice box, dumped the ice into my primary, filled with water up to about 2 gallons. I then strained my wort into the ice bath. Should I...

I think I will try to see where I am at with carbonation and cack one open...

So I bottled my first batch two days ago... took a peak at a bottle and it appears as though some yeast(i think?) has settled at the bottle of some bottles. Looks similar to wha was at the bottom of my secondary. Obvious newb question.. is this normal? Maybe this should be an acronym... ITN?

Oy vey, one more thing to worry about. Well I sanitized dried and bottled, so hopefully i will be safe. On a side bar, I just bottled my first brew. Spent two and a half weeks in the secondary, as I was short on bottles... Oh what a shame I had to drink extra beer... Tasted like flat beer...

Bottle does not mention having to rinse. Is this true or is rinsing required?

I just perused this thread, but I was in Munich for the last day of Oktoberfest, literally for 6 hours during a layover. I went to the Augustiner tent. Probably the best beer I drank in my life. I've been looking for it in local beer stores and had only been able to find it once.

Got to get to drinking more beer now... purely for the sake of producing more bottles... it's a tough job but somebody has to do it. Out of curiosity, if taste the sample should it taste like flat beer?

I figure at this point, I'll just take off the blow off tube and throw the air lock on. wait until sunday and bottle. Hopefully it will taste like beer.

No they were either 5 or 6 grams per pack.

Guy at my LHBS said to se two.