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Looks like I can do 70 okay. Thank you for the insight.

Well, we checked the FG today and it was down to about 1.021. It's been 3 weeks, so we got everything sanitized, set up, primed and commenced our bottling. Mostly flip tops and a few with the capper. Looked like beer, spelled like beer. The color was a little on the amber side-just an...

This is great help. Though it's going to make for an agonizing 6 weeks to see how it turns out. I'm sold on the gradually lowering of the temp.

Thank you again. This forum doubles the fun of home brewing. I have a can of Blond Ale HME from a Mr Beer kit. Is this something I could add to this kit with a positive result? I just don't see messing with the little batch again and wonder if I could put it to use and what it would mean.

This is even better than what I was hoping for! This will only be my third batch, so it helps to have every step laid out and explained and the estimated ABV satisfies my curiosity on that. I definitely want to do my homework on lagering as far as the fridge temp. The 55 degrees might be...

The yeast is BREWFERM LAGER. I'm covered on the sanitation piece. I definitely won't take any shortcuts there. This set of instructions is pretty straight forward. I do have muslin bags and the grains are crushed.

It would be a partial boil. I do have an extra fridge. Would the whole fermenting bucket go in the fridge?

Okay, so the same beer shop that gave me a winemaking book with my beer kit instead of a beer making book included a Vienna Lager kit that has no directions. I could probably guess and it would eventually turn into beer, but it wouldn't be worth wondering for 5 weeks. Hopefully someone can...

I will let it sit...It's tough, but it will sit. I'll devote some time to reading some more posts and learning what I can for a future batch. Maybe I'll check the FG this weekend and see if it drops at all.

There was a lot of activity at first, even showing up in the airlock. I'm finding a published OG of 1.072 with some of the packaged kits, which match my ingredients. I did put a hydrometer in yesterday and the FG is showing 1.024 with a beer temp of 72 degrees. I'm not sure if the FG is...

Thank you for the help. I decided to go with the secondary so I can free up the primary for a Vienna Lager kit that is on deck. I decided to taste it while transferring and it tastes like beer, though it has an alcohol bite to it for sure. This forum has been awesome for digging into and...

It was at 75 degrees when I pitched the yeast and by that same evening, the temp was up to 78 degrees (not the 68-72 I was looking for). The beer stayed at 78 degrees for 3 days in the basement where the room was at 66 degrees. The bubbling settled down after 2 days instead of every couple of...

Big TYPO on my part! I could probably qualify for a job in the White House kitchen. My bad notes for sure, it was not 175 when I put the yeast in. Thank you guys for the catch on that. The recipe called for pitching when the wort was between 70-80 degrees, which I tried for the middle at 75...

Considering my beer kit arrived with a winemaking book in it, my first batch seems challenged from the start. I started with the Whitehouse Honey Ale. Yes, the one with typos and incomplete directions. Wasn't entirely certain on what steeping meant, but thought I'd turn the heat back on for...