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What do you mean by kilned when talking about crystal malt? Sorry, my terminology for home brew is a bit weak.

Right now I'm at the stage where I am getting curious and trying out different ingredients from different brands. But I still have only done extract brewing. I am still unsure what exactly your malt extract and crystals do for your brew flavor wise. Also what does cracking the crystals before...

Well not exactly sure on the boil time but I know it was less than an hour. It's been bottles for 3 weeks now and it seems more bitter than a regular pale ale.

Yeah, we added the hops during boil after we seeped the crystal malt in the water. I'm not sure if its a hop bitter cause well this is my first home brew.

I used a pre measured kit here is the list of ingredients. Not sure if this is any help though. If we let it sit longer would that make it less bitter or more?

After letting a couple of my pals try my first home brew we all agreed that it is quite bitter compared to others. Could anything cause your homebrew to be more bitter than usual?

Well I certainly have learned more than I would have like perhaps. But who gives a hoot.

Alright thanks for your input guys. Helped a bunch. Cheers to my first home brew!

Is this stuff bad or harmful to drink? Cause I usually drink beer out of the bottle and not used to pouring it in a glass.

Is this normal or should I be alarmed? It's been sitting in the bottle for about 3 weeks. Thanks for any input.

Alright thanks for everyone's replies. Taking this as a learning process as its my first time. But what I'm planning to do is siphon the beer back into my primary fermenting bucket just for storage. Then add the first gallon of beer then add the priming sugar and finish off adding the beer. I...

Hmmm. So do I switch it back to my primary bucket to add the sugar? And then just siphon it back to the bottling bucket? Sorry, read the kits instructions and got a little confused.

Well, we are using our secondary bucket as a bottling bucket. Just gonna let it sit for a few days. Had a taste and it takes like flat uncarbonated beer.

Me and a friend just got true brew beer equipment kit and picked up a pale ale ingredient kit aswell. Seems to be going along nice although not really sure what I'm doing. Here's some pics! How does this look so far?