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:) it's a liquid wheat yeast from Williams Brewing. I 'smacked' it last nite to get it going. It was slightly swollen this morning before I left the house. It should be good when I get home hopefully.

I actually bottled my first IPA the other day which was the result of my first dry hop. I had used pellets right in the secondary and had a nice layer of hop sludge in the bottom. I very quietly siphoned into the bottling bucket and ended up leaving about 1/2" of beer over the sludge when I...

I'm actually doing my first starter tonight and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit paranoid. I got the AHS starter kit this weekend which came with 3oz package of DME and a 2000ml flask. So above I see "1 oz DME to 1 cup of water" and "1/2 cup DME to 2 cups of water" which is really...

thank you very much everyone. for the future though, it looks like I may just get 1lb of DME to keep for starters so I can 'step up' right before brew day.

It's sitting out at room temp. I smacked it around 6pm last night and this morning the package was plump but not solid or anything. I plan on making the starter when I get home from work in about 7 hours from now.

ya.. it seems like there should be more but the pack from Austin Homebrew Supply was so tiny. Kinda strange, and I dont have any extra DME. Hope I'm not screwed for this weekend.

Hi gang... my third brew day will be this saturday... using my first liquid yeast and first starter for this batch. I smacked my pack yesterday (Tuesday) and am waiting for it to swell... I got the 2000ml flask from AHS and the starter kit that came with it is for like 750ml which doesnt...

Okee doke.. here goes... Summer Solstice Light Ale (as made by Jasper's Homebrew supply (Nashua, NH)) 3lbs Light Hopped Malt or 3.3lbs Lt. Hopped Malt Syrup 2 lbs Light Dried Malt or 2.2 lbs Lt. Malt Extract Syrup 1/2 oz Saaz Hops (Flavor, 10 min, 2.3 AAU's) 1/2 oz Saaz Hops (Aroma, 1...

Sorry gang.. i've been out of town... I'll get the recipe when I get home tonight and post it. It's not the one above unfortunately. It was a 10 minute brew, funny enough, with 5.5lbs of dry malt. details to come!

good advice.... thank you. I MADE myself be patient with my first batch and let them age a bit once they were in the bottle... but now that I have restrained myself in that regards, I'm dying to get both of the new recipes started lol.

Leaves quite the mustache! :)

Ok... I got 2 recipe kits and one blowoff tube yesterday and a 6.5g and a 5g carboy. I would really like to do both kits at the same time (a honey wheat and a porter). Question: which recipe would be advisable to put in the 6 with an airlock and which to put in the 5g with the blowoff...

it's called Summer Solstice Summer Ale... 4 weeks after bottling and sooooooo good... I am so hooked and addicted now... So pleased as it is my very first batch! Thank you to everybody's tips that made this a successful first batch... I didn't fear the foam! :)

thanks... I just wasn't sure if there was a golden rule about exposing the extract (any form) to air, but I guess if it's only going to end up being boiled it's not that big of a deal. thanks again.

Ok.. not a question on HOW to make a starter... but for people who are new to brewing like me (about to brew my third batch.. first with a starter) where do get the 1/4 cup of DME to make the starter? Silly question I know, but if you dont have a LHBS close enough... can you simply take the...

great input TNL.. thanks!

Iordz... can you hit me up on a lil more info to this statement? I currently have an IPA that is ready to be racked to secondary this weekend. What I was planning on doing was putting my 1oz of pellets in the secondary then rack on top of that. If I dry hop in my primary when I get home...

Thanks Funken... I'm curious to see the response as well!

Interesting.. thanks. I guess I'm kinda freaked out now until I can get some lithmus paper. Dont want to save it just for it to possibly not be working as intended. Would rather spend a few more bucks on a new bottle of starsan than be stingy and lose my beer to an unnecessary infection :o

Quick question about the retention of StarSan... from reading I understand that you can keep a bucket of StarSan solution (which I did from my last brew day) and that it is good as long as it retains it's clarity (which I think it is)... My question is bubbles... obviously it wont keep it's...