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This is my 1st attempt at mead, followed this recipie with one alteration, I substituted limeade for lemonade concentrate (as limeade is inherently superior...). Its been ~24 H since I pitched the yeast and not seeing much int he way of signs of life, no bubbles, nothing at the airlock...

Its been about 15 days and the beers still at 1.018 SG (1.041) SG. So approx 3% abv. Should i throw more yeast in or just deal with it being kinda weak?

I racked by Scottish Ale to secondary and it only came up to the 4 gal line on my ale pail. I doubt i lost a gallon to evaporation while boiling, and I was careful enough when measuring the water that theres no way i forgot an entire gallon of water. I filter the water then pour it to a...

Thinking about adding some maple sugar to a BB English brown kit, what would be a good amount of maple syrup that wont overpower the rest of the flavors but at the same time be one of the dominant flavors in the beer? Is there anything else i'd have to adjust due to the extra sugar?

Can anyone recommend a tasty partial mash oatmeal stout?:tank:

Im sitting at 48 hours since yeast was added and still no activity if i dont see anything by tomorrow should I re-pitch?

Temp while I was steeping was 70ish for 5 min or so, added my extract early before the wort was boiling and i pitched teh yeast too warm. Did i break teh beer? Actually not overly worried hopefully things work out well and its stuff I to work on for teh next batch.

I'm getting ready to cook my 1st batch tomorrow, and want to make sure i haven't forgot any important prep steps. Anyone have a pre brew checklist? Im gonna sanitize everything tomorrow morning and I've just finished boiling water in the new AL pot to build up an oxide layer. Slightly nervous...

there a recommended temp range or just throw it somewhere dark and forget about it?

Like before star-san or bleach? With all the concern over infection how did they manage to actually make beer in the old days?

Recently ordered a Brewers Best Deluxe kit and i'm waiting on it to arrive along with a couple ingredient packs. Planning on starting with a brewers best english brown http://www.brewersbestkits.com/pdf/1016%20English_%20Brown_Ale.pdf I was looking through the sticky/faq threads, and one of the...

Been wanting to get into home brewing for a while and finally had some cash to start it. Ordered a brewers best deluxe kit, hopefully should be able to get a batch going by the end of next week.