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So...I've got a pumpkin ale in the fermenter. It's my second batch! Last week a nice cold front came though. I'm in college and my roomies and I are pretty stingy when it comes to running the furnace so the average temperature of the house has been set at 62. Temp was real good during the...

That's what I tried doing. I figured the action of the siphon would be enough to stir it. Another thing I did was try to get every last bit of beer out of it so I tipped the bucket and got an extra 3 bottles out of it...except all of those were pretty darn carbed! Some bottled ended up being...

Here's the first bottle...I figured out I made a mistake in my process. For the first brew ever I think one little mistake isn't too bad. I thought you didn't want to mess with stirring it at all when you were priming and bottling so I didn't...Oops! My priming sugar didn't get distributed...

So I just tasted my first brew tonight. It's a smoky porter. Fermented for 18 days. Bottle conditioned for a week...couldn't help but take a taste tonight with my roommate. It was amazing! Great smokey aftertaste. Definitely tasting those smoked malts that I steeped. Anyways, I decided to have a...