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You can afford to brew your own beer but you can't afford to heat your own house? More power to you man. I guess your homebrewed beer keeps you warm at night.

So last night I finally bottled my first batch of home brewed beer. It's a pale ale and was in the primary for a little under 3 weeks. I had to go ahead and bottle last night so I could have some ready for a visiting friend 3 weeks from now. Last night was the first time I had even seen the...

Is there a difference in adding the remaing portion of the DME in the last 5 or 10 minutes versus waiting till the very end and letting it sit for 15 minutes? It seems that if you added 2/3 of your DME during the boil, this would lower the temp of the water and it would no longer be boiling...

What if you added some corn sugar near the end of the recipe like mentioned above. Seems like it would help raise the ABV to be closer to the original (7%).

Cool, thanks! I hope I can make a beer that taste at least close to the two hearted ale. It has been my favorite beer for a while now and it seems every IPA or hoppy beer I drink I compare to it and they are just not as good to me. I think I like how it's lighter on the malt flavor but is...

What is the purpose of adding the sugar exactly? I'm guessing to raise the alcohol content without having to add more malt?

I was thinking of trying a two hearted clone for my second try at brewing. I think I will take the above advice and use the grains from the 2nd recipe and the hop schedule from the 1st recipe. However, the first recipe shows .88 lb of corn sugar listed as the last ingredient. At which point...

This is my first brew so I haven't used my autosiphon yet. It sounds like this won't be a problem based on the fact that there is something on the siphon that keeps the trub out. But I guess you still end up leaving a some beer behind in the primary in order to keep from sucking up the trub at...

Can you put something on the end of the siphon like a sponge to act as a filter? Would that clog up?

I've read about techniques for whirlpooling the wort before siphoning the beer into the primary bucket in order to keep out the trub stuff. For my first batch, however, I did not do this and I simply poured the wort into the primary and left just a little wort remaining in the kettle to keep...

Question, when you guys say keep it at 66 degrees, are you talking about the temperature in room that the fermenter is in, or the temp inside the actual fermenter? If it's the fermenter, does that mean you're sticking a thermometer in the beer to check the temp?

Yeah, I just made my first brew this past sunday and thought one month was good enough to have it ready by christmas, but now that I've had more time to read up on it, it looks like 6 weeks is ideal, 3 weeks fermenting and 3 weeks bottled. Still, it's my first batch and my buddy will be down...

I'm new to this also and my first batch has been fermenting for about 4 days. I'm kind of worried about the whole process of opening the lid of my fermentor and sticking something in there to take a gravity reading. Is there much risk of affecting the fermentation process when I open the lid...

I just brewed my first beer but I forgot to add this whirlfloc tablet that came with the brew kit. I think it's supposted to help the clarity of the beer but I was wandering if this affects the taste of the beer at all or if it's just for the look of the beer?

Thanks for the replies so far. I feel a lot better that there's a chance my efforts weren't for naught. From reading about others having troubles with ceramic tops, maybe it's not just the kettle. It's only slightly concaved. It's not defected either, it is molded that way so that it has a...

I attempted to brew my first beer last night and of course, even after all my research, a huge problem would occur that I could not fix. The 20qt stainless steel kettle that I purchased with my start-up kit from the local brewing shop just so happens to be concaved on the bottom. Since I have...