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It was terrifying. I woke up in the middle of the night to a loud boom. I wasn't sure what happened at first, it sounded like someone shot a cannon or something. I figured SWMBO would not have been impressed if at 4:00am I told her that that noise was my beer exploding, so we went back to...

I'm planning on doing something basic like: 7lbs Golden Light DME (Should I use a lighter DME?) 1lbs clear candi sugar .5 lbs belgian caramel malt 1-2oz of Kent Goldings at 60 1oz Saaz at around 5 Wyeast 1214 What are your thoughts on adding cherries in the secondary? If it's...

Hopefully it doesn't end up as that. lol

How much orange have you all been adding? Just the shavings from one orange? I'm gonna make this brew this weekend. I'm planning on just using 3lb of Briess Golden Light DME (or perhaps NB Organic Light) and 3lb of Briess Wheat DME instead of messing with the LME. I'm still going to use...

That looks like a normal krausen. Some beers ferment more vigorously than others. What kind of beer is it?

Whatever you do, just be sure to add your mace in the secondary rather than during the boil otherwise it won't impart any of its flavor.

Yeah, they make priming tabs where you basically just put one in each bottle. You can also just put regular priming sugar in each bottle. I don't remember the amount but I think it's are 1/2tsp.

The butter in butterbeer is for butterscotch, not actual butter. You will also want it to be "warming" if not served hot, probably by having a bit of alcohol. Can beer be served hot? This would be fun and make for a great competition if a bunch of people tried it. I always imagined it as...

This quote wins the thread.

He actually just types it from scratch every time.

Austin Homebrew has some sort of "ABV Boost" thing that supposedly adds 1% to any beer without affecting the flavor and I don't think they cost much. I have no idea if it works or not. Perhaps someone on here can vouch for or against them.

It's probably fine. Maybe you just didn't drink enough water last night, or perhaps you haven't had a lot of homebrew so your stomach isn't used to it.

Aren't Hefe's supposed to taste "bready"?

So the best way is to artificially sweeten and bottle carb as normal?

Yeah, that's what I've heard, but I can live with overcarbed beer and it doesn't explain why it tastes terrible.

The 5 ounces that came with my kit.

I wish I had the same experience as everyone else. I opened my first bottle over the weekend and it was undrinkable. I poured pretty much the whole thing down the drain. It has only been in bottles for a week but it was completely carbonated. In fact, it almost seemed over-carbonated. It...

Noble Pils is okay, but I see no reason to ever buy it again when I live in Minnesota, where I can get the ultimate pilsner, Schell's Pilsner.

So how do I bottle carbonate it if I have to kill off the yeast? What do you typically use to kill the yest?

You're supposed to rehydrate yeast at about 100 so I think you're okay.