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Wow! That was exciting. I got the bucket outside and pulled the lid off and it scaredthe crap outta my Wife! Pretty funny, not too messy. I sanitized my siphon tubing and stuffed it into the hole in the lid and then stuck the other end in a bucket of sanitizing solution. Thanks for the quick...

Oh.....Th lid looks like it gonna blow and I'm pretty sure the airlock is clogged, but I'm nervous about pulling either of them off. Is this baby gonna go "old faithful" on me?

This is my 3rd batch and this time I'm brewing a Brewers Best Imperial Pale Ale kit. It had 8.3 lbs of extract and I brewed 5 full gallons. I put the beer in the 6.5 gallon fermenter last night around 6pm. I came home just now and when I checked on it, there was beer everywhere and the bucket...

Well, I screwed up the gravity readings so I'm not sure what they were.

This may be dumb question. My 1st homebrew batch has been in bottles now for almost 5 weeks. Its not bad, but it is very light-bodied. It was an American Amber kit from Brewers Best. I'm doing batch #2 tomorrow which is a Brewer's Best English Pale Ale. Comparing the 2 recipes, the AMerican...

I can't get rid of the beer smell in my fermenting bucket. Does this even matter? Of course I'm going to sanitize before using again, but I thought I'd ask.

So I boiled the DME in about 3 cups of water, 2 did not seem like enough. I added it to the batch once it was below 80 degrees. Everything seemed fine but my gravity was low again. Oh well. I still barely have more than 5 gallons of beer. The beer smelled good when I opened the fermentor, I...

I did take a reading and it was super low (1.02). I posted a thread about this, but I convinced myself that it was because of poor mixing. God! I feel stupid about this!

I still have the dry

I asked the brew shop guy if I could boil the dry but he said if I already have 5 gallons it would water it down? or soemthign like that. The recipe called for the can of liquid extract (3 lbs maybe?) and 2 lbs of dry I think?

It turns out I did indeed screw up my first brew. I brewed it on Saturday. It turns out I did not put enough malt extract in the boil. I was supposed to put dry extract and liquid extract in but I only put in the liquid (in Napoleon Dynamite voice: "Idiot!"). It was bubbling in the fermentor...

I'll start off by saying thanks for all the quick replies to my other posts. This board is awesome and addictive. It just might get me fired because I couldnt resist reading it at work today. Anyway, I'm only on day 3 of my first batch, but I'm already wondering about my second batch. I'm...

The recipe for this beer kit said to ferment for 7 days then bottle and let sit for 2 weeks. Everything I'm reading on this board talks about leaving it in the fermenter longer and possibly secondary conditioning the beer. Thoughts?

Thanks for all the replies! I feel a lot better. Another question, Can I check the gravity again after I've already sealed the fermenter? May be a stupid question, but I'm a beginner. The beer has definitely begun fermenting since the airlock is bubbling.

I started my first batch of homebrew today using a kit from Brewers Best, the American Amber. I thought I followed the directions pretty closely, but my starting gravity was super-low! Around 1.02. Any ideas what went wrong and is this batch ruined? Thanks for any advice in advance Brandon