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I have been reading this forum for over a month now. Everyone here is enthusiastic, friendly, and always ready to answer us "Newbies" questions. I don't think i truly grasped the obsession aspect of this. Until now. I sit here drinking my first attempt at a homebrew. It is a little flat...

Today i brewed my second beer, an Irish Stout. All went well until I had to activate the yeast. I followed the instructions on the back of the packet, which said to locate and move the inner packet to a corner and then pretty much smash the crap out of it until it breaks. I did this...only i...

So I'm brewing my first homebrew... Everything went very well (boil, cooling the wort, adding to water in the primary fermentor, pitching the yeast) until the very end. The rubber seal on the fermentor's lid fell in when i attached the airlock. Hindsight says i should have attached it...