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FWIW, anyone close to a Meijers. It's on sale for 7.00 a sixer this week. Halfway through my first and probaby will pick up 1 or 4 more before midnite saturday...I need the bottles.

So I don't get all frazzed about what's going on in my carboy, I've headed off to start an important side bar; collecting bottles. And the most convenient method of collection is removing the liquid yourself....Working on some Oberon now. It was on sale...

Things I've learned from this knowledge base: 1. I may need to provide additional cooling to whatever I ferment in. 2. It may be normal that CO2, yeast and/or alcohol smells could knock my socks off. 3. I could benefit from covering whatever I ferment in to shield it from any light that may...

Room temp is a pretty steady 71d. Carboy is set in a closet, coolest part of the room, it just happens to have a light fixture (with a separate switch) in it. Is it possible that my pallet is mistaking yeast flavors for alcohol? It's a two gallon batch of this recipe: 5g>2g 6lb DME > 2.4LB...

Now in a stroke of wierdness, day after I detect the smell, I pull enough to do a reading, smack dab in the middle of the green area of the instrument (I guess learning how to read the gauge would be a good idea) Then notice that the brew is bubbling more and in "clumps" of bubbles as opposed to...

I'm using sanitizer. Not going to waste good vodka!! I will say this. The first couple days of fermenting the bottom of the carboy was a bit warmer than the top. Is this indicative of anything not normal (process?) BTW, 3 gallon carboy, just about 2 gallons of brew.

First batch paranoia going on here. pulled a sample to test gravity (unsuccessful. I can't get a deep enough sample for the hydrometer to float). The liquid that stayed on the thief smelled great, so I stuck my nose close to the carboy opening and got a heavy alcohol smell. Normal...

Bit of both. All 700c wheeled: Niner MCR, Karate Monkey, Titus Modena, Vintage 70s Torpado fixie and his and her's Schwinnies... When I get involved in a hobby, I get in a hobby...

Hello from Ann Arbor! I've never brewed, thought about brewing, knew where to find brewing thingies. Then I discovered a few friends that were doing it and I felt that I needed another hobby to be used as an after product of other hobbies (I race RC cars and am a recovering cyclist). So I...