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Thanks Calder I think you are right with the seal. I had put the lid in a star san bucket while i was testing gravity, and when i put it back on wet. it began to bubble a lot out of the lock. But as it dried up, the bubbling slowed again. I hoping its because of this and not just shaking up...

hey all, so I did a batch on Monday night of a IPA kit from the LHBS. It now seems to not be fermenting, or at least have no activity. I didnt do my primary in my better bottle like i usually do, so i can see what is going on, i did it in a pale this time. the activity never seemed to...

thank you all!

So i just purchased a kit online from a close HBS. It didn't state that their grains came uncracked in their Extract kit. I have no mill to crack the grains. Does anyone know of a way to best do this? I was think with a rolling pin. I have a limited amount of household items to use. thanks!!

just sat through about 2 hours+ of reading this. It is great! Still new to home brewing (4 batches this past year), this thread will have me a dreaming for years to come! I may have missed this, but how long were you HBing for when you decided to go commercial with it and what made you want...

thanks for all the advice! So, on a whim when I ordered from NB, I ended up ditching the Amber and went with their pale LME (which they call "golden") and got 9.15 lbs. Then got a pound of the crystal 80 b/c I like a more amber than pale IPA. Will probably use at most .5 lbs of it. I also added...

Well apparently I can't upload pictures yet... here is a link to my photobucket. (that i was so excited to share these i just setup!) http://s1141.photobucket.com/albums/n600/richeyring/New%20Years%20Beers/ a new micro brew store RE-opened up around the corner from my apartment in...

i think i plugged this in right to mr malty... and it seems you are correct sir, that i would need 2 wyeast packets. it seems that for a "simple starter" (which i guess the wyeast packs are??) i would need 200+ billion yeast cells and the 1056 packet only supplies 100 billion. does this...

Hey all... I'm going to attempt an American Style IPA. I like them bitter with a very nice hoppy aroma. I plugged all of what i think will be a good IPA into Beersmith. Couple questions... does this look like a good recipe? Also... I'm not quite understanding the boil volume. On the kits I...

thats pretty awesome! Thanks again for all the advice guys! Ill try to stop in on that wednesday meeting in january hopefully!

great. thanks for the advice!

this might seem like a stupid question.... but what is the best way to check the gravity during fermentation while still in the primary? Secondary? Or better yet, how to do it for a carboy and for a bucket? I would imagine it would be to stick your auto siphon in there and pump some out, but...

marko--- thats really cool. Were you part of that group when you lived in this area? do you know if they are generally receptive to new people just showing up to meetings? Or, is it the type of thing where i should shoot off an email to them first?

So, i am slightly confused now. so here are a few questions. With the secondary not being needed why do most posters have the beers brewing in secondaries? is that just because they are all bigger beers which need it? Secondly, I had been told by one of the workers at a local brew store that a...

this is all great advice. thank you all! just a note... i decided to bottle sooner than later and will be doing tonight. This will be in hopes that by New years, ill be able to try some of the beers to see how they are. and for very wishful thinking of being able to serve it to some friends for...

yeah... ive been up to Woburn. Beer & Wine hobby or something like that. They are really nice and knowledgable up there. There is alsot barelycorns out in Natick. Which is a cool store, but i feel like they gear themselves more towards brewing groups on premises. I liked it, but they dont have...

Hey everyone, I'm a new brewer out here in Boston! Currently working on third brew, a dark brown ale. Will be bottling it tonight and i cannot wait! My previous ones were a pale ale from the Coopers' brew kit. (didnt turn out that great--- but i attribute that to waiting over a year to use...

thats interesting about keeping it in the primary for 2-3 weeks. I thought I had read somehwere that the yeast that collect in the bottom (the trub??) could damage the beer if left there too long.

This is my first time posting on here! I brewed a batch of American Brown Ale about 10 days ago. I've had it in my secondary fermenter now since saturday 12/18. I was wondering how long i should leave it in there for before I bottle? The only caveat is that I am traveling from the 23rd...