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I have read posts about leaving the beer to ferment longer is not necessarily a bad thing. All my batches I have normally left 3-4 weeks before bottling and they seem to have turned out good. I have a cream ale that has now been fermenting for about 5.5 weeks. I am not sure I will have time...

I made my first batch of root beer from a rainbow extract the other night. It has been sitting in my pantry for a few days now and the bottle is firm when I try to squeeze it so it makes me think that it is ready to go. So my question is how long does it have to be in the fridge before I...

I brewed a cream ale on Saturday evening. Everything went great and I know it takes time to show signs of fermenting. So at 24 hours after pitching there was no bubbling in the airlock. I know that airlock activity is nothing to base fermentation on. My question is on temperature? Where I...

I bottled my most recent batch last night. Everything was going smoothly until I transferred from the fermenter to the the bottling bucket. Transfer went great but when I set the bottling bucket on the counter to start bottling, I noticed I had a pretty good leak coming from the spigot. I had...

I am a fairly new brewer with 3 batches under my belt. I had a good pipeline started and then we decided to put our house on the market and find a new house. I have to be out of my house in a week and won't move into the new house for 3 weeks. Since we started packing stuff up, I have been...

I have brewed two batches so far and have had great results with minimal temp control. I brewed them during the winter and the temp in my basement was low enough to keep the temps down during fermentation. Now with summer approaching I have a feeling that I will have a harder time keeping...

So I brewed my second batch on Saturday night. It was a Brewer's Best American Light extract kit. I started by boiling 2.5 gallons of water then added my LME. Things were going well. Then I added the hops and all of the sudden, I lost my boil, as in I couldn't make the wort boil. I boil on...

So despite all my concerns that I had done something to screw up my brew, I bottled my first brew about 10 days ago. Just out of curiousness and my unwillingless to wait for the whole 3 weeks to let it condition I threw one bottle in the fridge and let cool for a couple of days. Popped it open...

So I bottled my first batch Monday night. It was a Weizenbier kit from Brewer's Best. I followed all the directions. Cleaned and sanitized I let sit in the primary for 3 weeks. The temperature remained steady between 66-68 degrees. Never got above 70. I racked to the bottling bucket after...

I bottled my first batch last night after 3 weeks in the primary. I have to say I was surprised it went so well. Did not take as long as I had planned and I feel like I have accomplished something. My plan is to let them condition for 3 weeks to carbonate. I have a plan of throwing one in...

So I have my first brew in the primary fermenter right now. I have no secondary fermenter so I am going straight to bottling when it is ready. My question is: Am I ready to bottle? It has been in the primary for 10 days. I took gravity reading 2 out of the last 3 days and they were the same...

So I am brand new to this and I brewed my first batch on Monday night. It was a BB Weizenbier. I have been checking airlock on my primary for the last couple of days and no activity. I was a little concerned last night so I popped the lid and there was a thick layer of krausen and it smelled...