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Thanks you guys. I had a feeling that honey didn't go bad, but didn't know how it would perform in the brewing process. I also had the idea of sitting it in a warm water bath to soften it up. I appreciate the input, and I'll keep posted on how it turns out!

I have unearthed an old extract kit of MS honey bee ale kit. I ordered some fresh yeast, and was going to brew in the next couple days, but when I opened the box, I found the jug of honey to be mostly hard. Can honey go bad? Should I still use this kit? Thanks in advance.

Thanks, I was in a no nonsense mood this a.m., but thanks to the help on the forum, I got beer in bottles. In my first ever batch of beer, I over primed and every single beer spewed foam when they were opened, so I didnt want to waste a bunch of time again.

thanks big cat, i will definitely look into a beer program, but there wouldnt be much i could enter for ingredients for this recipe since it is just lme from a can and a crap load of sugar.

great contribution to the thread, worm. rumphf, thank you for the answer and info, i will search for a priming calc

thanks for the info who. revvy, i knew someone would say that, and i began to look at that STICKY, but it isn't indexed, and the thought of searching through 51 pages isnt very appealing. but thanks for the suggestion. i know some of you people who have been around a while get tired of...

thank you guys for the quick replies. i did some site searching, and found some things as well. next question, does the concentration of the priming solution matter? how do you all prepare your priming solution?

The instructions for my lhbs beer kit only gives per bottle priming info. I am wanting to use a priming bucket instead. Does anyone have quick conversion for the amount of priming sugar i should use for 6 gal of light american beer clone with a final gravity of 1.010? FYI this is only my...

Wow, I sure let this thread die. For those of you who care, my first batch was a monumental fail. I over primed my bottles, so...when I opened them, the beer erupted out of the bottle like a foam geyser! So, I gave up, but now I'm back! I have a 5gal batch of a beginner LME on day 4 of...

1 week down...i hate waiting

I also called the kit "summer ale" at the beginning, but I just looked again, and it is actually "summer wheat"

yeah, it was free!! I would have passed if he wanted to charge me, but I'm sure he will get a couple bottles of beer out of it as payment! After all of the work, I had the same feeling, "only a gallon?!" If my first batch turns out ok, I'm sure I will be onto a 5 gal system in no time. I...

Well home brewing is going to be rough on me then, because patience is not one of my virtues!! I think I'm going to have to get another batch going since this kit is only a gallon, and I don't even think I have a full gallon of beer after the boil. All the work, and all the waiting may not...

I will have to get a hydrometer, the kit did not come with one, but the instructions say to wait 2 weeks in the fermentor, and 2 weeks in bottles, would this be considered "aging in primary" or should I leave it in the fermentor for 3-4 weeks, THEN 2 weeks in bottles?

I think it the yeast is ok, the first 12 hrs or so it was visibly bubbly, and there were air bubbles coming out of the blow off tube, but now most of the visible bubbles are gone, but there is still some air bubbling out of the blow off tube. I guess my next question would be is this the...

In the little bit of knowledge I have gained from this forum, I have been worried about the yeast as well. If there are no signs of fermentation, will I be able to get some from the LHBS and add it after the fact, or could the last 3 hrs of mashing, spurging, and boiling be wasted?

Took my first shot at homebrewing tonight using a Brooklyn brew shop kit(summer ale, I know its almost winter!) I had planned on using a LHBS kit for my first time, but I told my neighbor about wanting to start brewing beer and he told me he had this kit, but didn't have the time, so he gave it...