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1st time brewer. Beers been in the carboy for 7 days. Just took a gravity reading. 1.020 down from 1.049. It smelled like beer, looked like beer, but tasted like ****. Should it taste anything like beer at this point? Help! Worried that it's not going to be ok

Thanks for both links guys! Both great info. Not sure what I'm gonna do at this point but have lots of great info thanks to you both. I'll let you know how it turns out? :mug:

When I rack to the secondary do I take out the airlock and put the tube through the whole in the rubber stopper or do I pull out the while stopper out? I'm using a clear carboy. Same question for the secondary. Do I plug it and put the hose through or just run the tube in the opening and then...

Lmao!

From what I'm hearing is that it's not necessary but the beer tends to be a little clearer and less chance of crud in the bottles when u use a secondary. When I share this much-anticipated beer with my eager friends I'd hate to have a bad end result. So if I do secondary I have a couple...

If I knew how to spell the sound my mouth makes when I shake my head back and forth then I'd insert here. That sounds like I need somebody to show me how in person. #veryoverwhelmedinhomebrewing

Ahhhhhh Norm!!!!! Thanks man, everybody here on this site is great. Everybody has made me feel very welcomed

***buy a new keg

Have two kegs left over from parties MANY YEARS AGO. If I wanted to keg, can I get these cleaned somewhere (they still have some old yucky beer in them)? And if so how do I do it? I'm sure you'll tell me to start from scratch and by a new keg. That's fine but what's the cost for a keg and the...

I'm just trying to get used to this forum. :mug: means something along the lines as "here's to you"?

Argh! Another acronym I'm not familiar with... What's IMHO? And :mug: ?

I'm definitely inexperienced as I haven't done it before. Have my first batch fermenting away in a cooler in the closet. Don't I just keep the hose a couple inches from the bottom? Once I move my carboy to my kitchen counter to rack should I let it sit for a while before racking? Seems as though...

Ahhhh I see. I need to channel my inner texting lingo to keep up around here :)

Thanks! That's what I was looking for!

I'm currently in my first batch, trying to soak up as much knowledge about this addicting hobby as I possibly can. I've only been on this site for about 3 days but I've read a LOT of what you all have to say. I keep hearing about using a secondary fermenter. My kit didn't say anything about...

IMO? Man trying to learn the beer lingo Here is impossible! I need a beer thesaurus! What's IMO?

My cousin gave me a bunch of homemade jalapeño honey... Delicious honey. Tempted to play with it in a batch... Anybody ever tried it?

Ok next dumb question... After I ferment for 2-3 weeks in my carboy, I should put it in another fermenter? I thought I ferment for 2-3 weeks then transfer to my bottling bucket with a spigot, add sugar then bottle

I read a lot of posts about "before I rack" or "when I rack"... Not to sound too much like a noob but what does that mean? I looked at pics online and it seems to me that it's just something to hold your bottles while they dry.

I put my grains in the bag but didn't tie it off properly. Once it boiled it got away from me and the bag opened. Grains everywhere. I took the bag out, dumped in the LME and proceeded from there. I thought I was supposed to remove the grain bag once it started to boil. That's what I did, but...