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Thanks for all the feedback. I did add a blowoff tube and it is bubbling like crazy. Do i have to worry about my alcohol content getting out of control? I added my extract syrups plus now my several pounds of fruit which also provide sugars for the yeast to convert to alcohol.

Several questions in here. Any insight by anyone would be greatly appreciated. I brewed a recipe i found online that seemed to be missing a few steps so i made my best guess, now i worry i was wrong. First off, i brewed last night. Placed it in my primary and this morning and around...

Thanks everyone for pointing out my mistake. Yes, i did mean to say that I will bring my 2.5 gallons of water to 158 degrees, steep then boil. After the boil and addition of all of my materials, i will add the remaining 2.5 gallons of water as i chill the wort to 71 degrees before yeast.

I am going to attempt to brew a chocolate peanut stout this week. I found a recipe with very limited directions. I was looking up the steeping time for stouts and have found many recipes that range of 150-158 degrees which seems to be pretty consistent but the times have ranged from 20 min to...

I don't have a glass secondary fermenter. I have been taking a large funnel with a fine wire mesh filter and pouring my primary fermentation through into my bottling 5 gallon container then rinsing the funnel/mesh and primary 5 gal bucket (resanatizing) then filtering back into my primary 5 gal...