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Ok i have read a lot of posts on here, none of which i can find right now, about keeping your beer in the primary for 2-4 weeks and then tranfering to the secondary for another week or so, etc, etc, so i was hoping for a little clarification. In general, when is the best time to transfer...

I just dont think there are that many people on here from the Miami Valley area, every time i have needed any help everyone has been great. Luckily i live pretty close to Brewtensils so i can pick things up pretty easily when i need them, and since im a newb its been pretty often. But you...

Looking forward to seeing some of the pics from your projects. Sounds like you will be spending plenty of time and money and Brewtensils!

No, I'm still just using kits to brew from

Believe me, the 4 beers i drank while brewing had nothing to do with me forgetting to add the DME

Can you post your checklist? I think i need something like that for my nest time.

I left out a pound of DME.

I steeped the grains, then brought it up to a boil and added the liquid malt extract, being very careful to mix it very well and not allow any to burn. Then i forgot to add the dried malt extact, and then added the hops and finished brewing and was just ready to transfer from my keggle to the...

So ive been waiting all winter for the first semi-warm weekend to get out and brew my 2nd batch. I brewed my first batch last summer and havent had time to brew again before winter. I spent my winter tweaking my keggle and other things and, i had my brewers best kit was ready to go. Everything...

Their Christmas Ale is out of this world!!!

Just picked up a 4-pack last weekend, very good. I love almost all of Great Lakes Beers!

Im fairly new to home brewing, hoping to brew my second batch this weekend, but already really enjoy this and hope to get into this a lot more this summer and have started to look into kegging. I have been trying to read as much as i can on HBT but my head is spinning and was wondering if...

So I really shouldn't worry about opening the fermenter up and possibly contaminating my beer? That was my thought process behind using the spigot. So if I sterilized the turkey baster and maybe gave the fermenter lid and air lock a quick sterilize before closing it back up I should be ok?

I just bought a graduated cylinder, i was planning on opening the spigot on my fermenter and letting some of the beer into the graduated cylinder so i can test it with my hydrometer and not risk infection by taking the fermenter lid off. Any thoughts?

Well that makes me feel better. My keggle didn't drain very well into my fermenter and I ended up dumping all kinds of trub in there. So I thought that could be the problem coupled with the fact that I left it in the primary and secondary for a week out so after it was done fermenting. But the...

Yep it was a Brewers Best Kit. At first taste the beer tasted amazing, but there was that aftertaste that would always get me. Dont get me wrong its not so bad that i cant drink it, its just there and slightly bothersome.

Well I guess we'll see how this ipa turns out, wish me luck. I've ironed out some issues I had with my keggle and won't be working out of town like the last time so things should go much better.

I fermented in my basement which stays pretty cool, just guessing but probably mid 60s. My brother tried it and said it tasted fine...

It's been months and the taste is still there and it's been there for every beer, so I gotta assume it's something I did not sediment/yeast on the bottle.

It was in the primary for 2 weeks then a 3rd week in the secondary before I bottled it. It carbonated a week or so in the bottle. I brewed this batch in august and I'm still drinking it and it still has the same after taste. Could it be from fermenting too long? Or from putting too much of the...