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I'm active in quite a few forums, and it's the same on all of them... I don't get upset seeing the same routine stuff day in and day out - it happens, and even if they did search, it's NOT guaranteed they actually find a full 100+ page community thread about it. I added a comment in one of the...

I do only have 1 hme brew done so far, and followed the instructions exactly. Obviously I barely even needed a boil, and only mixed the hme with a little bit of water, adding water to reach the desired gallons.. With that in mind, I want to migrate to extract, and I've been reading a lot. I...

To make a few things clear here - I always rinse bottles after a pour. I did wash, rinse, and re-sanitize before bottling the batch, but I did not check the bottles. In fact, I bottled 11 in 16oz beer bottles, drank 6 with no issues in the past week, and on the 7th, the last glass had the mold...

Last night I had an unfortunate find in one of my beer bottles of apfelwein. Mold? I poured the last bit of the bottle into the glass (leaving the trub if any in the bottle), but had little black chunks floating in my glass. Damn, as the other 2 glasses of the bottle were soooo good! So... I...

Well, my first mr. beer kit has been in the primary for 2 weeks. Planning on bottling it this weekend or next! However, I know the directions state use table sugar and prime bottles. I have a bottling bucket, so I figured I'd just batch prime to make it easier. But how? How much water should I...

I didn't carb it. I kept it still and dry. Ended up chilling another bottle for this weekend for more people to try! I'm gonna run out before my next batch is ready. Being the first one I made, I didn't take notice to the "start another batch in 2 weeks"... I should've done that. :rockin:

Well, I bottled all of mine on 8/9 and since then, I consumed 2 bottles of it already. The first wasn't that great, it was room temp, and one night I just couldn't wait longer to try it. However, the second bottle, amazing!!! It was chilled for 2-3 days in the fridge, and even though it was...

Wow, that's a lot pages to read... Gotta finish reading later, however here are my options: I don't live on a 'cool' street name (Zuck - pronounced like cook but with a z), so I didn't want just that. Figured since swmbo always says I spend too much (even though she enjoys the end products) I...

Well, I finally bottled my 4ish gallon batch tonight, 12 750ml bottles and 11 pounders. Had a 3/4 pounder left over to sample. I wasn't blown away, maybe I'm not used to the taste yet. But I also don't know what wine turning to vinegar tastes like and I hope that in 6 months to a year I don't...

err, swmbo, enough said??? I had a pound measured out for a smaller batch for her since I was gonna rack to my bottling bocket and bottle, then clean/sanitize primary and make hers. I was 4-tasking it (not a good idea) making lunch, 2 small batches and gonna bottle. Had swmbo helping me and...

OK, so I started a batch a while ago, left it for a month, then accidentally added another pound of sugar to it (yes, accidental). Left that to ferment in the original month long primary for another month, then racked to secondary. It's been there for about 3-4 weeks and is now finally really...

I've only done the 1 mr. beer recipe that came with it (booster + 1 can hme), but doesn't it say right on the booster package that it ups abv, body, and flavor? I know it increases the abv less than that of another can of hme, lme, or dme (does lme/dme come in cans?). I'm only 3-4 days into...

It seemed weird not settling back down, if it is yeast. However, I was thinking like you about infections forming on surfaces, so I doubted it. But after a week of just sitting there I began to question it. I'll have to try to siphon it if I can for a taster. Thanks!

The instructions that came with my pre-hopped kit said to bring water to a boil, remove from heat and add the HME. It said nothing about times, so I followed the instructions being my first kit, brought to a boil and removed... I always read on here that if we do our own hop additions, we need...

I know I know... relax? Right? I went to move my wine last week so I could bottle and got a small stream of bubbles and this floating from the sediment to the top. I moved the secondary back and this thing isnt settling back down. Getting a little worried about that as I've been extra careful...

Awesome info! It makes sense now as to why the majority of beers won't ferment so dry compared to wines. I can't say I was going to be worried about carb in my first attempt, but I was just thinking in general, 'cause I know at some point I'll try something crazy with additions/secondaries...

I'm starting my first pre-hopped extract mr. beer this weekend. However, I've been doing tons of reading and am hoping to have some more experienced brewers clear some things up. I've been making some wines, and it's make, pitch, forget, rack till clear. This however, gets rid of all yeast...

I ended up racking this again tonight, only got a 2 litre right to the brim out of it. I don't think there was 1/4" of lees, but I didn't notice anything floating anymore, so I figured I'll rack and give a test. OMG, the heat right up front was shocking, since I couldn't smell the heat at all...

I just ordered a Mr. Beer from Amazon. Kinda excited, maybe about a week or so until I have time to use it. I def. haven't read through the whole thread, did read about the first 10 pages though. One question I have is with extract do you still need to boil, and hop, and chill, and whatever...

Have you used this from a racking cane/siphon before, or only from the spigots/outlets on your containers? Being non self primed, you can just let the liquid flow into the pump then turn it on correct? I'd be putting it inline from carboy -> pump -> filter -> bottling bucket. I asked about the...