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Thank you for all the replies, folks!

Well, yesterday was day 7. I took off the trusty blow-off tube to reinstall the airlock and could not resist sterilizing and stealing a little to taste, just to see how bad it is. My take: after just a week it could and should of course condition much longer, but it really did taste much like...

Chattanooga here as well, a couple of friends just enticed me into it- first batch violently fermented but "looks" good 5 days out! I'll have to check out the Murfreesboro place. You fellas take it easy!

Thank you very sincerely for all the welcomes. I wish I had read more of this forum before turning on the stove on brew day, but it all looks ok now and I'm glad to be here!

Sounds good, I've heard some people prime for carbonation with less than the 5 oz sugar, I have heard 4 oz several times... At this moment I don't feel a large leap ahead of anybody, pretty nervous about the whole process, made worse when you can't make it better by trying to do anything to...

That helps, along with the other posts. The temperature thing really was not clear to me somehow in all the instructions I thought I read carefully. Yes, the basement will stay 65 ish until mid summer if I keep it closed up, then all bets are off. And, if my beer tastes brown (it is at...

Would a day 10 transfer be OK? It almost seems as if it fermented a LOT (too much?!) in a very short span, so I think the 5 gallon will hold this tepid fermentation that is all I have right now (with the blowoff). I do have a 6.5, a 5 gallon carboy each plus the bottling bucket so I can go...

I'm not too hot at multiquoting...sorry fellas, but I sure appreciate the responses. It's a 6.5 carboy. The secondary is a 5. I will most assuredly use the blowoff every time now. The video made it sound much less important!!! I am actually considering using it instead of the smaller...

Hello All, I said most of this in my introduction but I thought after reading a good number of posts here I would get a little input from folks much wiser than me. Background is I am a first time brewer, brew day saturday with a Northern "Deluxe" kit and the "Caribou Slobber" extract brown...

I'm gonna see where the batch takes me! If you like Terra Nostra, next time you come through you MUST look up the new Flying Squirrel it's brand new on the Southside, excellent excellent excellent tapas, craft brews, wine, etc!

Hi all- I was perusing the beginner stickies for a few days and after my positive experiences on the antique side of the Corvette forum, I figured I'd better sign up here and join the fun (thereby committing myself to another addictive internet forum). Anyway, a buddy from church gave me a...