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First of all, I bottled my first batch yesterday!!! The taste test went pretty well and I'm psyched to try it in a couple weeks. The bottles are currently hiding in a closet. That batch got a little hot during fermentation but it is a Belgian so I think it will be okay. After bottling, I...

Ok, sounds good. Thanks guys. broadbill, fellow Mainer!!

I'm in secondary fermentation now and I used a sponge and dish soap to clean my primary bucket after I racked out of it. A couple days later I gave it a whiff and it still smelled so I washed it again. Now it doesn't smell anymore but I can see a yellow tint to the inside of the bucket from...

They're wicked nice and very helpful, but some of the things they have told me definitely fly in the face of what I've read EVERYWHERE else. I was going to ask them what they thought about skipping secondary and doing a long primary, but I don't think I even want to go there now.

Yea, it was a bummer. The guy at the brew shop told me to put it upstairs so it would be in a "warm room". I called him a day or two later and told him it was 80+ up there and asked if I should move it, but he still didn't seem too concerned. It is a "Belgian Golden" and he said the...

Hi all, Just got back into brewing recently. Picked up a pretty basic starter kit (2 buckets, siphon, hydrometer, airlock, capper, etc) at my local shop and cooked up a batch a week and half ago. I think my biggest problem with this batch is going to be temperature. In the reading I have...

Hello all, New brewer from central Maine here. 31 years old, new father, Network Engineer "by day". I brewed a couple batches before with a college roommate back in 2000 or so, so it has been a long time. I'm looking to get back into it and currently have a batch in secondary...