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I'm basing this on my own experience, but I've used it over a few times, when it sits for awhile, it'll start to turn to a brown/rust color. I believe that's just the minerals or whatever in the water separating or something. I also read in a few places that its not a 'contact disinfectant'...

Keith's has 200 years of brewing behind them, if they want to call it an IPA they can. Though I think it likely is a completely different ale now than what it was 100+ years ago. It seems more like a lager now. I think the Keith's 'tartan ale' is closer to what Keith's IPA is suppose to be like.

I stumbled upon this video and I found it works really well for cleaning out a beer glass.

Yep, pre hopped kits. Though I never gave the gravity a thought.

So some have used 2 cans of extract beer kits for one batch to give it a better body/taste etc etc, has anyone ever tried using two different kinds of extracts for one batch? I mean two kits that are sort of close in style, like a Cooper's IPA and a Coopers Real ale? Or would it be a recipe...

I've made a couple batches with brown sugar, if its on sale in the store I'll use it rather than buy my suppliers malt extract/glucose mix, so far it seems to turn out fine, not the best head in the world and I find the lacing is better once the bottle is near empty (I bottle it in 2L soda...

I use 2L soda bottles, I just put some of that pink powder sanitizer stuff I use in my fermenting pale, put a little bit in each bottle, shake it all around, dump it back into the pale, and rinse it out. May not be the best method, but from what I can tell, hasn't done anything bad.

I did pretty much everything besides blending it into a slurry or washing the outside. I'm gonna see how this is in about 7-10 days.

.99 each? Woah! I got them at my local market cored for $3.99 each, and that was considered 'on sale'

I've seen blueberry extract at the brew store, it maybe my next attempt.

Great to know! I personally ain't too worried if it came out bad, beer kits are a heck of a lot cheaper than buying from the beer store here in Canada, so I don't mind experimenting with some cost.

Hope it turned out good! I'm planning to do it tomorrow! Gonna rack to my secondary and thaw out a couple cored pineapples, cut'em up and toss'em in to the pale and see where it goes. Using a 'Canadian light' kit with a 'Can-ada' DME with some hops in it.

This gentleman here 'Craig' insists that one can bottle their brew after about a week or so and has never had any problems. It seems almost every brewer will tell you something different. I don't mind waiting longer if I really should, but some clear instructions that everyone can agree on...

The instructions just told me to put it from the carboy back into the primary for bottling, since thats all that came with the kit.

The airlock is going nuts right now. Being impatient as I am, once the airlock's activity stops, I'll take some readings and if I think its ready to bottle, I probably will, rather than use the secondary. I assume I can still still heat some water and dissolve the bottling sugar in it and add...

Okay, thanks for the info. The only other thing the store's instructions mentioned was that its 'not good' to leave a brew in the primary plastic fermenter for more than 5 days. Not sure if thats their way of getting you to use a secondary or if plastic can effect the taste of a brew, but so...

Okay thanks for the heads up. I stuck the lid on and jammed the airlock in. I'll let things go until about Sunday and move it to my secondary, or I may just let it sit in the bucket, but I wouldn't mind trying the secondary out for the heck of it.

Would it not being snapped down cause any harm? Or should I go snap it down asap and stick the airlock in it to be safe?

Yet another new person trying to attempt brewing! Now in Canada, I find that brewing is more of a necessity than a hobby because alcohol prices are a lot higher here than in the US. But moving to my question/point. I bought a kit from Nobel Grape and got a Cooper's 'real ale' malt extract...