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I dude I know has his panties all twisted over the fact that Trader Joe's grocery store sells a "Hofbrau Bock". He's insistent in the fact that this is stupid because Hofbrau Munich is a brand name and this TJ's beer is somehow wrong for calling itself Hofbrau. I'm just curious for anyone...

So since my first batch seems to be very unsatisfactory, I'm trying to formulate my next Mr. Beer batch before I move on to making bigger batches. (I bought a package deal at the LHBS; includes Brewers Best Basic Equipment Kit, first batch of ingredients and a class.) But one more Mr. Beer...

Hmmmmm... 1st batch, 100% by the MR. BEER book. After 3 weeks in primary, and a full week of bottle conditioning and a few hours (at most) in the fridge... The results are... pretty crappy. Now granted, this was a can of WCPA that was already a year past the expiration date (I know, I...

Hmmm... this would give me an excuse to upgrade to a real brewing kit. Cannot have a carboy cleaner without a carboy! Count me in.

Would 2-2-2 be 2 weeks fermenting, 2 bottle conditioning, 2 cold lagering? And I'm not thinking my experiment would really have desirable results so much. I'm interested in tasting the bad results and having a concrete example of how they're improved by time.

Also, I was thinking of trying to experiment with the first batch. As in, staggering the initial fermentation and bottle conditioning by 1 week. So I would bottle maybe 6 bottles after one week, then 6 after two and the rest after three weeks. Then letting a third of each of those batches...

Has anyone tried using organic "raw" sugar (unrefined, evaporated pure cane juice) in a MR BEER kit for priming? I try not to use "fake" sugars in my diet so I really don't want any in my beer if I can help it.

Yeah, they got a little eager seeing my interest. I do want a glass carboy though. I want to watch the fermentation like that.

Hello, I'm Mike. I got a Mr. Beer kit for Christmas and it's been gathering dust. But I'm getting ready to do my first batch and I wanted to read up on tips and such. The Mr. Beer thread is MASSIVE but I think I'll read through at least a few dozen pages for advice. I've been to Great...