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thanks for the advice!

If you are looking for a kit I would 100% say you should go for it and get the free kettle, I think it is worth it if you plan on brewing more than a few time a year. I use only plastic fermenters, I brew a lot and beat up my stuff, so plasic is the way to go for me.

So I am planning a parial mash recipe that will end up being about 1.1 and change OG. I was going to use a white labs belgian or trappist yeast. So my question is how to go about the yeast starter. Should I do a starter with 2 vials of yeast? or should I use 1 vial with a larger amout or DME (In...

I would recomend purchasing a kit with everything you need included if you have trouble getting hops or malt. it will have everything included that you will need and will cost about 50-55$ for 5 gallons.

099 will work fine on it's own with a normal yeast starter. I have had great luck with it in the past.

That recipe looks good, I would recomend WB-06 if it's a wheat beer. I have had good luck with it.

poor sanitation is the best way to ruin your beer. I would recomend fermenting for atleast 2 weeks, even after fermentation the yeast can clean up some off flavors left in the beer, no rush to bottle. make sure the priming sugar is boiled well before adding. never be afraid to buy fresh yeast...

If you are making a pale style (pilsner, pale ale, cream ect) it will darken much less with late addions. I find DME is much easier for adding late in the boil.

if your fermenting for less than 4 weeks I would say it's completely pointless and not worth risking contamination. I don't think you will notice any difference.

for the second one I would say add more water, but 4-5 points is just fine. that being said even at 10 points off it will ferment just fine, so don't stress too much.

3 weeks to carbonate, that being said I have noticed most of my beers benifit from atleast a month of aging in the bottle.

I have had the foam actually fill the container and over flow, luckly into a large bowl I left it sitting in. I have done this many time with sanitizer solution and never had any off flavors when completed. hope that will lower your anxiety with using the blowoff.

I would recomend a kit atleast the first time to become familiar with a typical recipe but its up to you, if there is a home brew store near you than they will have everything you would need to make your own.

brewers best and northern brewer have full starter kits more advanced than the mr beer kits that have everything you need (except kettle) that go for about 100$ or so. bottling supplies, fermenter, utensils, hydrometer ect. after that you can get ingredient kits from any brew store or online...

you should consider getting a larger pot (4.5 atleast) when adding more than 6lbs of LME. The most I could get away with when I used a smaller kettle was about 8lbs of LME and that was really pushing it. One thing I did have luck with was using all DME in a high gravity recipe, didn't seem to...

So I'm making a german bock recipe I have not attempted yet which was recomended as a lager with white labs 833 german bock yeast. I was looking for any good recomendations on an ale yeast substitute. I have used WLP29 in the past for a substitute for a pilsner that came out great. Should I...