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Thanks alot guys...even to the pothead! ;) I feel much better now! Much appreciated! What is "RDWHAHB?" I've been seeing alot of those acronyms lately.

Brewing my 2nd batch (extract). OK think I may have gotten too drunk during brewing. Brewing a 3 gallon batch. Wort got alot colder alot quicker in an ice bath than I thought it would. Before I realized it the wort was down to 56 F. Pitched my yeast. When I looked at it the next day I realized I...

Much appreciated.

I read somewhere that the hop harvest season is from the middle of August through the middle of September. Does anyone know if this is true? If so, when do the hops usually become available for sale? Is there a different harvest time for different kinds of hops? I would like to buy a pound or...

@ChandlerBang I've invested too much money in equipment to give up after one batch. If I screw up a couple more though, when the cost of wasted ingredients start to outweigh the cost of supplies, I may start to believe I wasn't cut out for this........... How long does it take you to get in an...

Thanks a lot! Everybody has been a great help!

@broadbill True. Ok next time I will let it pan out and see what happens.

Well the book did mention that the beer would "peak" at 3 to 8 months and is cellerable for up to a year. If that's a bad strain of yeast then alot of their recipes are going to be off.....they recommend it alot in their high gravity recipes. What would you use that yeast for then? Wine perhaps...

I know I'm new to this but it just didn't seem right. I trusted my gut. Have you ever had a beer smell sweet but taste sour? In my experience (which isn't much I'll admit) the taste of any beer I've drank is similar to how it smells. I didn't want to go through the trouble of bottling and the...

TY to everybody who took time out of their day to help me out with their advice. It's because of people like you, willing to help out, that a discouraged newbie is going to give it another shot instead of giving up. I've got a thermometer on the way from my online home brew supplier so I will...

I was trying to make Avery's Maharaja clone from the book "Clone Brews." I was only making a one gallon batch so I multiplied all the ingredient and water amounts by 0.2 (recipe was for a 5 gallon batch). I could give all the details, if needs be, but the only thing that seemed to go wrong (the...

Oh and I submerged all my supplies in the fermenting bucket full of sanitizing solution for a minimum of 2 minutes before using.

You're probably going to laugh or think I'm a moron but truth is I don't know how hot it was. I figured I'd save a few bucks by using an old meat thermometer I had laying around the house. I found out, as I was cooling the wort down in an ice bath in the sink, that the thermometer didn't read...

My final gravity was 1.004 when the recipe called for FG to be 1.020-1.021. I think I pitched the yeast when the wort was too hot but not 100% sure...

OK I'm new to home brewing. Just brewed my first batch (extract) and it didn't turn out. Smelled sweet but tasted sour (not bitter, sour, like lemon juice). Any thoughts on what I could have done wrong would be appreciated but that isn't my main question. I read that it's a good idea to make a...