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I'm still relatively new to brewing and am afraid to experiment. I did brew a Vienna Lager that the instructions said it was OK to ferment like an ale.

I just ordered a Labatt's Blue clone. Is swamp cooling placing the fermentor in water and wrapping it with a towel that is also sitting in the water?

Thanks. So would it be wise to swap the lager yeast with an ale one?

Hey there you beer brewing gurus, I don't have enough refrigerator space to lager my beer, so does it hurt to brew a lager as an ale? What are the ramifications of doing this?

Here are the 3 instructors, Rob, Greg and Greg starting to set every thing up.

Here is everything set up and ready to go!

These are some of my brew class classmates.

Hops added to wort. This is a all grain Summer Ale that I am anxiously awaiting to try at the next class!

Beer samples. I had an all grain IPA that's one of the instructors (Greg) brewed from his own recipes. It was the best beer I have ever tasted!

This is Fitzroy (my good luck Gnome) checking out what we were going to brew that day. We brewed two Summer Ales. One from a kit and another Summer Ale that was brewed from an all grain recipe.

These are pics from a brew class I attended at North Court Beverage in Medina Ohio. The 2 best parts was that it was all free and I got to sample about 10 different beers from the 3 instructors and some of the attendees!

As of 7:30 last night, it started bubbling. And today it's going real good.

Well yesterday I made my first Hard Lemonade. Here is the recipe I used. Thanks Lorena (Yooper), britishbloke, and rod for the great post you made years ago. Ingredients: 4 lbs of Corn Sugar 1 lb Dry Malt Extract (to make it a malt beverage like Mike does) 10 12 oz Cans of Minute Maid...

Here we are toasting our success on our first homebrew.

Me Poppin' My Cap from our first Mr Beer Canadian Draft homebrew.

Jim Poppin' His Cap from our first Mr Beer Canadian Draft homebrew.

Color and head from our first Mr Beer Canadian Draft homebrew.

I'll take them so I can sell them to the Beer Museum for twice that. Not! Since I have both and a 6 pack of Billy Beer (5 unopened) and a full 6 pack of Mash 407, I'll pass.

When you brew and bottle up four cases and then throw a party to empty your bottles so you can brew another batch.