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It's been two weeks since i bottled my first brew ..(a Sam Adams summer ale clone) My ? is how long does it take for all of the bottles to reach the same flavors ?? I have managed to sample a couple,few,12, 24 lol, and they have been rather uneven in flavor .. None have been bad , just some...

well today being my birthday , I decided to put a couple beers from my first batch (ever) in the fridge last night .. So I could do an early sample today .. I must say it is pretty good !! There is room for improvement (or maybe the aging will bring out some other flavors ?) The beer seems...

I just brewed a batch a German wheat this morning .. Its fairly warm in the house , so i have placed two 2 liter bottles of frozen water right next to the primary and covered the whole thing with a wet towel , as well as placed a fan on it . The airlock is bubbling like crazy .I dont have a...

What are the advantages to a liquid yeast over a dry yeast ?

I just ordered The German wheat "kit" from G&G .. any suggestions on what i should do when it comes time to make it ? Here is the link to the kit .. http://www.thegrape.net/browse.cfm/4,8273.html Havent even finished the first batch .lol .. just getting prepared for the open primary ...

I had a guy tell me to rack from my primary to my bottling bucket , and let my beer set in there for a while before adding priming sugar and bottling ? Is there any reason to do this or is the guy "full of it" ? He told me that the bottling bucket could act as a secondary , and I could bottle...

Are there some good books/manuals on brewing that will help a beginner ?? I have one but its pretty vague and doesnt cover terminology real well , or even explain process well .. I am just looking to get a bit more familiar , or educated , you might say , on other process's and terms used...

I have wanted to brew for years but have never got around to even attempting it til now .. What I have done is purchase a one stage kit from "Grape and Granary" http://www.thegrape.net/browse.cfm/4,9465.html And one of their ingredient packages...