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Well, I don't have any experience with bottling, but I can tell you, from what I've been reading, kegging seems so much easier. Plus I love having beer on draft, friends love it too.

I have both, don't notice any difference.

I've had good luck with them, I did the California imperial ale, and black India ale, both were pretty good. I also brewed the imperial blonde and Oktoberfest, those turned out horribly, but both times attributed to my inexperience and/or brewing mishaps.

I skipped bottling and went straight to kegging, but my guess is you should let them sit a while at room temp and see if they carb up.

If you're worried about, what about putting a layer of Saran wrap over the opening then putting the top on. You could probably put 1-2 psi in it to fill the headspace. This is completely based on theory however :) ... I have no idea if it'll work :)

I usually pitch Nottingham around 75-80 degrees, no problems...you'll want to keep the temperature cooler during fermentation though. I set my freezer to 67 +/- 3, fermentation usually kicks off rapidly and violently.

Is it carbonated?

If you keg, and you're really worried about it, I imagine you could flush out some of the head space with CO2 before fixing the airlock.

I've made several batches of this before and it's always better towards the end of the keg (probably because I'm impatient). I have family coming in this weekend, and I brewed some last Thursday. I keep thinking I've drank this after 10 days and force carbing it, but now I'm second guessing...

How long did you let it go in the secondary?

Anyone tried it? Brewing some up today, first time I've brewed since my twins were born 10 months ago. Fell in love with Bridgeport's Dark Rain a couple weeks ago, figured I'd give this kit a try to get back into it.

I believe they sell a type of hydrometer at pet stores...though the range is probably not as wide as a brewing one. Or if you've got one nearby, any kind of science supply store.

Things actually turned out pretty ok...in the end I just tried to keep things simple, and had another home brew. I ended up adding a little more boiling water, and let it sit...Temps settled at almost 152 on the dot. Took about 15 mins to get there, but once I was there I started the clock. An...

I brewed this about a month ago and just kegged it....after a couple days carbing, it taste amazing! This is definitely going to become a regular beer on tap in my house. Anyone got an All-grain recipe for it? I just made the switch, but I may just brew this extract regularly if I cant find...

Ok, so I'm trying out my first all grain batch using a converted 70 qt coleman xtreme. I added 3.5 gallons of 165 deg water trying to hit 152. I pre-heated the cooler with boiling water about 10 mins before I doughed in. My temp came in closer to 145...I added about 2 tea kettles of boiling...

You can just run to Lowes quick and pick up some hose that fits over the stem of your air lock if its a 3 piece...there's a thread about it here somewhere, but its just 1/2" ID vinyl tube. Cost me like $1.80 for 5 feet. Like this: http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f222/wburn/IMG_0919.jpg

I went with pin lock, mostly on the recommendation of my LHBS. The recommendation was based mostly on that the pressure relief valves on the ball lock kegs (pin locks don't have one) tend to go bad and start leaking over time which increases your cost, and potentially costs you a bottle of CO2...

When I added one to mine I just picked up a male to male short pipe from Lowes, screwed right in. Some high pressure ports have left hand threads, but they're not always that way. Be sure you buy another primary regulator though that's built to hook to a tank directly. My LHBS misunderstood what...

It was a kit (albeit my last). For the most part I just followed the instructions. Like the first kit I bought it just came with a packet of dry yeast. The first time I just sprinkled it over the top like the instructions said, this time, after doing some reading I re-hydrated the yeast...

Yeah, I've been seeing that a lot, and honestly it seems like if enough people are saying the secondary isn't necessary, then there has to be something to it. The only reason I went with a secondary is because I kept seeing disclaimers like "...as long as its not high gravity..." etc.. The beer...