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Hats off to you for enthusiasm! With that sort of dedication, you will get top quality beer in the end no matter what. There are easier ways, but as Prost once said "I took the one (road) less traveled by, And that has made all the difference" Let us know how you get on.

Nice work. Welcome back to the brewing addiction.

Hey cvstrat, Firstly, two thumbs up for brewing your own beer and for getting straight onto grains. Nice one! Your changing gravity measurements mean you have made some beer, so excellent job with that. To help understand your OG measurement, did you add any water to your fermenter after it...

Don't sweat it, there are far worse things people have done and it still turns out great. (Have a gander at Reevy's sticky post to live his adventures). 3 days is not long, and the yeasties will still be busy doing their thing, crapping out alcohol and cleaning up the wort. A bit of oxygen to...

Just chill out, RDWHAHB. There will be plenty of O2 to keep the yeasties busy. 6 hours isn't long to see action in your primary. To keep you sane, I pitched a re-hydrated dry yeast into a Belgian brew and didn't see any action for about 12 hours. Then it went off the charts. Chances are you...

Yep, consistent hydrometer readings that sit around your expected final gravity (FG), will give you the relaxed state of mind required to sit out 3 weeks of conditioning your first home brew. Seriously, give it at least 3 weeks in the bottle. You will want to try "just one bottle to check it's...

I just finished up bottling the first brew I have done in over 8 or so years. Looked and smelt pretty good. Now the hard part of waiting for it to condition. I didn't have a hydrometer at the start or the finish, I just left it in the primary for 3 weeks at 70oF. No worries!:rockin:

AS prologue to this post, I live in the Caribbean, where the only beer available commercially tastes pretty average. There are no home-brew stores, and no raw ingredients readily available. I ordered a recipe for Australian Golden Ale (I am Australian) from DeFalcos in Houston for a friend who...

Hi there, Just re-discovering homebrewing beer out in Trinidad & Tobago. The selection of beers out here gave me the motivation and my first brew is still in the primary (will not secondary). It is a partial extract / mashed grain mix golden ale which I have not tried before, but it seems...