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Sorry about the delayed response, it has been a busy weekend. I went ahead and dumped the starter as it wasn't doing anything after 2 days and I see where I messed up in my conversion (so obvious once you pointed it out). I now know what to do in the future though so thank you so much for the...

Thank you for the response. Is there anything I can do to salvage it? Let's say I were to pitch it at this point, would it be the same as having pitched it right out of the package or is it somehow now worse? If I pitched this mix with another packet, would that be enough? I have never used...

Our local homebrew shop sells 4oz packs of prepackaged DME specifically for yeast starting and that's what I used

Hey all, After brewing three batches of cider I decided to finally move on to beer and I am doing a Belgian dubbel (my favorite beer) that has an OG of 1.065 I have two packs of White Labs WLP530 and had decided I want to try making a starter instead of dumping both packs in the 5 gallon...

Just to give a follow up, thanks to the advice from you all, the cider turned out wonderfully. The gravity reading today was 1.005 and if it still that way tomorrow I will be bottling it. I did do a taste test today though and it tastes great so I cannot wait for it to finishing carbonating...

Thanks! You all have been super helpful and I definitely see this being an addicting hobby already.

Stupid question, but can it be racked at any time or do I need to wait till the fermentation dies down?

Just got a text from the wife stating the entire house smells like rotten eggs. Rhino farts are apparently pretty strong with this one. Hopefully it dissipates quickly.

You all are awesome, thank you so much for the information! I just switched to the blow off tube and I will let it go and see what happens. Even if I totally screw this batch up, I am definitely hooked and ready to keep trying and learning. I guess at this point I just wait :)

I have the blow out tube ready to go. I did not take an OG reading and unfortunately, the bung is pretty snug in the carboy so I cannot get it off right now to get a sample unless I apply a lot of pull on it which I don't know if i should do at this point. Like I said, I did a lot of things wrong :)

Thanks for the quick reply! My other concern is the amount of pressure in the carboy. If this recipe and yeast amount is for 6 gallons, would there be too much pressure build up? The fermentation is going pretty well (it has been 24 hours) and it doesn't seem to be in danger of overflowing, but...

Hello all! So I started homebrewing for the first time yesterday and I am pretty sure I made every mistake I possibly could. I used this Cider House Select mix (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LV4IYS4/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20) as I figured it should be relatively easy for a novice. The...