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Do you put your sugar inside every bottle or put the whole thing in the bottling bucket? Putting the right amount in each bottle gives you some consistence but sometimes, the sugar gets stuck on the glass. Give it a little shake and more time it will go away.

I think you are all set with the 2 links you posted. Maybe a kettle would be a good buy with a grain bag (5$) if ever you want to try a mini mash in a near future. Almost forgot the hops bag (3$). Maybe some sanitizer, bottle caps. Good to go!

You will probably have a lower efficiency or lower ABV in the end. For the grains in the boil, don't worry about it. The difference will be so small you won't be able to taste it. Also, they will settle down in the fermenter and mix with the sediments.

I would definitely brew 2 or 3 batch for Christmas time :rockin:

That is a good idea. If I wanted to try this I would probably turn the pumpkin ale into a pumpkin cream ale and try banana and the biscuit malt, maybe cara60 too.

It could be anything really... What I would do in that case: put in secondary or only remove the sediments from the bottom, taste the beer. If the beer tastes fine, I would put in some more corn sugar in the mix juste to get the ABV a bit higher. Then wait if you see sign of a second...

I really like the steel carboy. Quite expensive but really useful for a small home brewer. Nice post

I found this nice recipe here on the site. You could check it out it will help you decide. I think it will be pretty hard to get a nice and tasty beer with banana and pumpkin. Pumpkin: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/southern-tier-pumking-clone-191381/ Banana...

Are you the kind of guy who puts chocolate chips in? I don't think it would be a great idea !!

Did you use a starter for the yeast? Sometimes fermentation stops because of the temperature (too high or low) or even because there is not enough oxygen mixed inside the beer. 72F looks just fine though. 1.030 is very high even for an extract kit.

Even for those kits I used to use a secondary (if you have a glass carboy). It looks nicer without the mud at the bottom from the fermentation. Not everybody uses a secondary. I did a couple of DIY beers mostly coopers. They always say the beer will be ready before it truly is. Don't follow the...

I would really suggest you do your second best type of beer just so you don't get mad at it. You might have trouble with the process the first time. All the extract kits you will find on different website will have the same process (or with very few differences). You will have the recipe and...

People who use those use the champain wire thing to hold the cork in.

We can subscribe to a thread, to a forum, but not to a user!! Lol

We have to be open minded. Diversity is good! And sometimes really funny

I am not sure what it does when you add it to the boil. You can always add it in the fermenter or even to secondary. To give a good cinnamon flavor you should try 1g stick per liter. I find it gives better flavor in secondary because it is not mixed into the slush at the bottom.

If it is 66F then its perfect! You should check with the kind of yeast you used what is the temperature range for fermentation. Most of them are around 60-70F. Also, fermentation is an exothermic reaction. The temperature inside the carboy will be a bit warmer

Boiling is always safer if thats what you are asking. My first few batches I did not boil the top up water. They turned out just fine. But I do it now

You will know by the smell and you can get nice infection pictures if you do a google search. There is nothing you can do now. Wait and pray :)

Thats a big weekend you got there! I have 7 batches of grain yeast hops etc. coming on thursday but have 3 exams next weekend. Damnit! Just a big teaser