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I'm still pretty new to brewing, and my first two batches are bottled and ready to drink. But I'm not real happy with either. I'd like to send a few bottles to someone who is very familiar with both kinds of brews and get some honest feedback on both. I've got a hefeweizen and an irish...

Ok, so I made a dumb, dumb mistake over the weekend. I was brewing a hefeweizen and had made a yeast starter about 2 days in advance. My starter was kept at room temperature, around 75 degrees. When it was time to pitch the yeast, I didn't shake up the starter. It had about 1/8" of an...

I'll be doing this as my second batch this weekend. I took the original recipe for "Golden Path Hefeweizen" posted on this site and tweaked it a little bit using BeerSmith. This is my first time using this program as well. I increased my boil volume to 4 gallons (in a 5 gallon kettle)...

Ahhh! So my first batch ever is cooked and in the fermenter. Brewing was fun but took more time than I thought it would. But I learned a lot and I'm sure the next brew will go faster. Here's how I went: Put 3 gallons of water in the kettle and on the stove to heat up. Filled fermenter...

I'm brewing my first batch this weekend and I feel as though I understand the process pretty well. One question I still have is about over-carbonation. I've read that after the beer is fully carbonated you could (should?) move the bottles to somewhere cooler so that the yeast goes dormant...

I have a basic starter kit with a 6 gallon ale pail but I don't have anything that I could attach a blow off tube to. Would it be a bad idea to ferment the hefe in the ale pail with only an airlock on it? I'm going to get a 6 gallon carboy or better bottle sometime, but it won't be in time...

Hello, new guy from Missouri here. I have ordered a starter kit online and can't wait to get started. I have zero experience but I'm good at following directions, so here's hoping my first batch turns out ok. I'm also a bit of a forum junkie. I'll be around here quite a bit reading up on...