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I never understood that lol, what makes drinking later better? If I want to get up and have a beer with breakfast I shall, and not feel guilty at all about it. I'm jobless at the moment so I don't drink as much as I would like, it's been maybe 12 a month if I'm lucky. I'll get back up to my...

Not my style....the music was cool though

Lol are you talking about me? I ended up adding the ice simply because the Midwest instructions said you could add ice directly to your wort to bring the volume up, and it states 8 lbs of ice is approximately 1 gallon of water. I ended up with around 3 gallon boil and 2 gallons of ice. I'll...

Lol my brew dropped from 220 to 48 in about two minutes. I was thinking it would be about 15-20 minutes like I keep reading but nope, it was almost instant. I'm pretty sure that it will warm up after sitting for a little bit but I wonder if that will have any ill effects on fermentation?

Lol well hydrometer reading was 1.040 if I'm reading it right...it's in the orange and says 40. Wow...I really should have educated myself A LOT more before diving straight into it, but if I did read it right, the paper says the SG should be 1.042-1.046 so I wouldn't be to far off that. I...

Probably a stupid question but how do you get the spigot on the plastic bucket? It wouldn't could the thread on the spigot itself so I forced it in and it stays but I can get it flush so it leaks. EDIT: Okay I finally got my bucket to stop leaking or so I think. It seems pretty tight to be on...

That's not a bad idea I do have some cheesecloth I can stretch over the fermenter. Does it change anything though beside just being more stuff floating around? The more I think about it the simpler this seems lol. I'm going to finish this beer and eat some pizza then get to work. I'll post...

So what would be the difference in adding water to come up to five gallons and me to add ice that will melt for me to come up to five gallons? I still plan on putting it in the sink with cold water and all that but if I have to add water anyways why not just add ice to help cool it faster...

My plan was boil 3.5 gallons and add the ice which is 2.5 gallons after boil to cool the wort, I read that it was an effective way if you dont have a wort chiller, is that a bad idea I mean the Midwest instructions even say so Lol. And I already was over thinking, I can just use the tube the...

Right now I have the burner going to boil the full 30QT pot as I keep reading I need to oxidize it or my first brew will taste like aluminum. I'm getting everything ready to to be tossed in the fermentation bucket and sanitize it for a good hour while the actual brew is going on. I plan on...

Lol I got that last week....nice to see It's even cheaper now

I started with 56 and ended up with 48. After two soaks with water and bleach and a good scrub I finally got it all off. I would have went and got oxyclean but It's nasty outside so I worked with what I had. I think all the work will make me appreciate my beer that much more, I guess we'll see...

Thanks for all the replies. I soaked about 56 Dos Equis bottles last night and threw out about 4 this morning because of stuff stuck in them I didn't want to mess with. They are now in a second soak to get the glue off, so I'm hoping from all this work my beer taste good lol. As for my general...

My initial plan was to make a tint like thing (two chairs with a blanket draped over) for the bottles but I'm thinking it might get to hot. We'll see, I have a little fan I can put under there to keep a breeze. People just keep telling me my beer will get skunky, which even with commercial beer...

I just got my kit in today and planned on brewing tomorrow morning and just had a couple questions. Are green bottles really that bad of a choice? I was going to just buy some brown bottles but a friend offered me 40+ Heineken bottles all washed, kinda hard to just turn down free stuff lol. If...

Lol I was thinking the same thing. I wasn't worried to much before entering this thread....but now I feel like I should be wearing some serious safety protection. I can see my obituary now being something ridiculous like dying from an explosion of home brew.

I placed an order after 5pm last Friday and it says it should be here tomorrow

Count me in Good luck everybody!

Haven't had my first brew yet but in general I think the less you worry and stop second guessing yourself the better. I found out when I would read how to do things and what to expect I would over analyze everything but in reality everything turned out great.

I just picked up a propane burner and 30qt aluminium pot combo for 44 bucks at Walmart which is about what a ss pot was going to cost me