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It's my understanding that too much sugar will create over the 5-6% that kills the yeast and there will be sugar left that can't ferment...because the yeast is dead. Anyway, went ahead and made the batch, there's a little under 4 gallons and i added 3/4 a cup of corn sugar. I hate being...

I'm sure you saw my last thread using k-mart ingredients for my first batch to get the idea of brewing. I decided to buy the real deal stuff this afternoon after someone from here showed me a local brew shop. k-mart ingredients, $15, real ingredients $20 and i got more extract plus a package...

Either way, thanks and thanks to everyone. I'll be going to this shop soon and talk to them about my next brew and will definitely use some of the other brews posted. :mug:

I have no idea how i've never seen this place, THANKS! I'm a delivery driver and have lived in this town for 24 years too! I Google mapped it, I have deliveries to the child day care two houses down from it, lol. And oddly...my "brew" doesn't have a sweet taste? It's got a really bitter taste...

Haha, yeah! I think i might actually just add some hops to my next batch and make the exact same thing and see what hops can truly do to beer. This hobby is going to be the end of my liver, lol, it's so ****in' neat. :rockin:

You see where i'm coming from exactly. :mug: The guy from Lowe's i talked to actually suggested i airlock with your method, but i was worried of the water just being pushed out from the air after i did it and pushed down on the lid. So i built from what he told me and discovered i could just...

Not bad at all for what sounds like a decent brew, especially considering bud light (which IMO kinda sucks), is $80 for 15 gallons. I think i'm most intrigued by doing this for my next batch.

And the verdict of someone that doesn't just love any kind of alcohol in general... "Eww, that **** is nasty, tastes like apple cider" (while it still wasn't carbonated at all). lol. I can't really get it to carbonate, my pressure regulator will only allow about 7psi in the keg. :( My...

Too many new recipes to try, lol. Regular ol' store bought apple juice...i don't know what i'm doing at all with fermenting, but i'd think the preservatives wouldn't agree too much with this?

I have two half gallons of that in the freezer, lol. Yeah, i know i shouldn't be drinking it right now, it's not carbonated and i'm sure it's actually not finished. But there's definitely quite a bit of alcohol in it, i'm on my 3rd or 4th cup and feeling pretty nice. :drunk: But doing it...

It's been the longer part of 6 days, i started around 3pm on Tuesday. I was reading for what i was doing 3-4 days should've been about enough, then another 3 to carbonate...but no big deal, i'll know next time to go longer. There's definitely alcohol in it, i'm on my 2nd cup and feelin'...

Aaaand, i'm drinking it. It wasn't fully fermented, while i was sealing the keg it was pressurizing itself. :| I have a relief valve though, so it's all good to finish in the keg. It really doesn't taste half bad IMO. Yeah, it's far from good, but it's definitely drinkable and almost...

Kegging it now, went to get a wiff of the batch to see how it smelled and got a face full of CO2. **** felt like wasabi, lol. After the CO2 smell died off a bit, it's kinda eh. Smells a bit like beer, i guess, lol.

Yeah, totally understood, i have a long way to go before i try making a batch of really good stuff. I really need to get some iodine based sanitizer is what i'm reading, it doesn't require rinsing.

Cool, thanks. And definitely not trying to stir a flame pot, just intrigued by alcohol and want to learn to make my own stuff. I think my next batch i'm going to go for a coffee beer with a hint of mocha. Sounds yummy. :mug:

lol, it's all good, i love a good beer too. For my first batch, i just wanted to get the idea of how to make alcohol in general, i learned a huge amount with this crap "beer" i've made. I'm going to keg it tomorrow and let it carbonate to see what i come up with. I didn't see a reason to spend a...

I'm 24, lol. I saw that hops tea is sold...I'm reading ginger makes a good substitute for hops?

Hmm, that's pretty sweet, i'll give that a whirl some time, thanks. :D I know about the bread yeast, but from what little i read, bread yeast is an ale type yeast? But a lot of it can lead to very unpleasant tastes. Hell i dunno, i'm just excited to see what comes out of what i make. :mug...

I'm not so much trying to make Bud Light, just something cheap for people to drink. Skol is too expensive, i use Karkov. :p $80 per keg though kinda hurts the pockets every time i get bud light (which is the cheapest in town...aside from Busch which is $3 cheaper, but eh, i rather spend $3 more).

The guy in the paint dept was a brewer himself and suggested i could use it *shrug*. He's the one that told me how to make the airlock i made. I boiled about 3 gallons of water, put it in the bucket, then boiled the malt until it stopped frothing at the top in one gallons of water. Cooled...