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Thanks everyone! I'll leave it alone until it's ready to come out.

Hey everyone, I'm a newbie home brewer, this being perhaps my fourth batch. I have a question about the appropriate procedure for something that happens to me during primary fermentation. First of all, this has happened to me for all of my previous batches, regardless of the style of...

To be honest it could really be any number of things. I screwed up a lot with my first batch and was very inpatient to try it. I'm going to try bottling with the carbonation tablets this time and let them sit for a month or two as you suggested. I know I've gotten at least one good thing out of...

Strange, I would have figured the big carboy would be stronger, but I suppose they're not really made with o2 pressure in mind are they? The cap sealing thing makes a lot of sense though. I've decided to buy some bottles & try out the carbonation tablets I bought. Would welcome any other...

Thanks for the quick reply Husher! That confirmed my thoughts on the blow-off tube. Unfortunately it's starting into the time of year where we start to see temperature drops in my area, so it looks as if I'll have to quit being so cheap and just buy a new airlock. It would seem as though I...

Hey all, I've posted here a couple of times with my newbie questions and have received a great amount of help. I'm here with a few more. I just started a 1 gallon batch of Irish Stout. For the first three days I had some tubing stretched from my cork stopper into a half-full glass of water...

Thanks for the quick replies everyone, I expected as much but oh well. I've never heard them called "small beer" or "lawn mower beer" those are pretty interesting. @JonM I just bottled yesterday, I realized my mistake when I filled up 1 gallon worth of bottles & had another gallon left. Put the...

In my first attempt to make beer, I screwed up my recipe. I made enough wort for 1 gallon of beer but filled a 2 gallon fermenter. Surprisingly the taste is still pretty good, if a bit watered down, but there is not much alcohol at all. If I put the beer back into a bucket with some more...