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I got my first sampling of this last night (out of bottles from the booze shop) and I thought it was really, really great. I detected NO alcohol and neither did SWMBO (who enjoyed it more than I did, I think.) If you're not tasting spice in your beer you've either got a faulty tongue or a funky...

I've read about Corona labels being hard to remove, but for bottles I've cleaned so far a soak in soapy warm water for anywhere from a few hours to 24 hours followed up with a scouring pad is a great way to remove labels.

Oooh, my dumb fault. As long as you have enough clearance in the fridge then you should be all right. Some mini-fridges are now coming compressor-less and cannot do lagering temps but most any basic fridge should be able to get down to 40f-ish.

A chest freezer should have no problem getting to lagering temperature.

As far as I can tell, this is their webpage. And this is their best selling mini-brewery, from their catalog. So, looks pretty standard if a bit simple.

If you just want to see if you can push on it, take off the airlock and try to re-seal.

If your gravity is dropping, there's active yeast. I'm still on my first batch and I had to wait about 36 hours for activity to happen. General rule of thumb here appears to be that if there's no activity in 72 hours, re-pitch.

That's the place, a bike ride from my house.

Hey everyone, got my first beer (a black lager extract+specialty grains from the lhbs) in primary on Monday. I read a boatload on both this site and John Palmer's howtobrew.com and prepared myself pretty thoroughly beforehand with a chest freezer & temp controller. The airlock is bubbling...