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Well I popped off the lid and I was surprised with a nice 2" ring on the side of the bucket! I'm assuming this is from the "krausen"? I also took the SG and it was 1.024! Coming from 1.067 that means its obviously fermenting and must have done so while I was sleeping or not able to check the...

Hmm, looks like I may need to try this again and see what the results are. Just makes for more beer :)

Blueberry Wheat Ale: 6lbs Briess DME 2 oz Tettenag (60min) 1 gal Blueberry Juice Muntons Yeast Brought 5 gal of water to boil, added DME and Hops (in nylon pouch). Stirred and reached hot break. I only got a rolling boil for the second half of the boil (im on a gas stove). Flame out...

I got the first chance to test out my refractometer yesterday. It was a $25.00 one off eBay that also has a ABV% scale on it. After chilling my wort I took a reading at 16.333 (estimate) which converts to 1.067 SG. My hydrometer recorded 1.067-1.068. I'd say thats pretty close. I'm going to...

Any idea on the ABV of this recipe? http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator Says 3.5%, which seems low, but it doesn't account for the sugars of the blueberry juice...

Would the easiest way to increase ABV to add a pound of DME? Also I'm looking at a beer recipe for Blueberry Ale and the recipe suggests using a gallon of blueberry juice as part of the wort. Would the sugars in the blueberry juice add to the ABV when done? I assume yes. Anything below 4.5% is...

How much yeast did you add? 2 packets? by bittering with hops, do you mean add more than 1 oz tettnags or add 1 oz? Did you get your gallon of blueberry juice by juicing or did you add the juice to the juice from pressing the flat? Haha, sorry if that is confusing. This will probably be my...

Can anyone confirm my last question? I also have another question. When going from primary to secondary or bottling bucket using an auto siphon what do people do to keep the crap at the bottom of the fermenter from transfering buckets?

Hmm, I might try the brix with the hydrometer for a couple of batches. Does this one look okay? And my understanding is to ensure it works there are a couple calculators I can use: http://brew.stderr.net/refractometer.html http://onebeer.net/refractometer.shtml And I really like this last one...

Auto siphon tube :)

I would like to eventually move on to making enough beer to fill a homebrew keg (how many gallons?). So I think that answers my own question on bucket sizes. From my understanding the brew pot doesn't need to be as big as the buckets since water makes up most of the volume in the fermenter the...

Hello everyone, I've been reading around here the past couple of days and decided to make my first post. My girlfriend got me started with a Mr. Beer kit a couple of months ago but I've been thinking about upgrading to a bigger setup that lets me start to brew larger and more diverse batches...