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#1) Dry Irish Stout #2) Bavarian Hefeweizen And brewed #3 yesterday) Scottish Wee Heavy. going to empty the first two fermenters this week.

My biggest fear is a runaway fermentation. The foam has nearly taken all the headspace and being early in the fermentation I still fear it is still ramping up. This is also the first time I fermented in a clear vessel so I've actually "seen" it before.

The temp was 70 at pitch. I'm not going to make that mistake again.

I've been downing 12 oz Gatorade bottles, filling them with water, and placing them in the freezer. I don't think that will help until the morning.

I made my first wee heavy this morning with 12 lbs of LME and Nottingham yeast. I pitched a 1300 ml starter. This is a 5 gallon batch put into a 6.5 gallon BMB. I have the brew in the basement that is 60 °F and it has been down there for 8 hrs. The Fermometer is reading 66 °F and I cant get...

I saw somewhere that mineral water is good for the yeast, I've been throwing in a liter on sparkling mineral water in each batch. Don't know if it hurts or helps, or does nothing, Still have not fully conditioned my first bottled batch.

Yes, added the 5 oz of priming sugar before bottling. If I don't get carbonation in the next 3 weeks I'll just drink it flat. It is tasty but carbonation would make it much better.

I have 4 cases, fermenting a stout and just finished brewing the hefeweizen. We tasted the first batch 9nut brown ale) that has been bottled for a week, and it is still as flat as the sample we tasted 3 days after bottling. I'm wondering if I bottled wrong because when I bottle, I pull the...

3 Kits, Imperial stout, Scottish wee heavy, and Belgian Dubble. Going for the long term stuff!

I took one of my bottled nut brown ales and stuck in in the fridge to check the carb tonight, while I bottle my American wheat. Expecting a shipment today of a Scottish wee heavy and Imperial stout. I have to really start putting my patience muscles to work, but it should be a bit easier now...

Week 1) I bought my beginner brew kit online, then filled in the "additional" stuff, like a 5 gal brew kettle, sanitizing tote, etc.. Week 2) mail ordered 2 kits. I stopped buying twist offs and started buying pry off beers with brown glass, even cleaned out my beer store of one brand...

Oops. On the vial it said 70 - 75, so I waited for it to warm up a bit before I brewed this. Looking on the site, it does say 65-68. Thank you!

I'm brewing, what was described as a session, a Dry Irish Stout. Brewed it up last night, added a 2000 ml starter of Irish Ale Yeast WLP004. I came home and the airlock of my 6.5 gal fermenting bucket was clogged and the top of my bucket was domed. I think if I had left it for another 2.5 hours...

My wife and I have been watching Brewdogs and after every episode I would turn to her and say, "I would like to brew some beer.". About a month ago I made the jump and purchased the equipment and a few kits. My second batch is fermenting and bottled my first brew yesterday, and kicking around...

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Welcome. This may sound stupid, but I'm already addicted and have not even tried my first brew yet. Have a nut brown in secondary and brewed a wheat today. Already have two more kits and another carboy ready for fermenting. I can't complain too much about having to empty bottles for...

Brewing for the second time, an American Wheat kit that arrived on my doorstep yesterday.

Looks like the nut brown ale I had to put into secondary (there was an equipment reason). I inadvertently added some air and trub. Hoping a week will settle things.

I did have to rack, I was fermenting in my bottling bucket, I felt like a bone head when the time came near to bottle. Now I have to wait another week.

I finally found a "Not So Local Home Brew Store", NSLHBS. I am elated, no more waiting on mail order! Picked up a 6.5 gal fermenting bucket, and a few other toys that had me drooling, like an auto-siphon... Brewing my second brew and first wheat tomorrow. :ban: