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I stumbled across the source......it's helping me go from 1 gallon batches to 5!

Have a source for almost unlimited free honey. Well as much as I can use anyway. I'm looking into mead recipes....any suggestions on beer or mead using honey?

Oxidized or not it's bottled now.

So is there anything that can be done if a batch is oxidized?

It's an American Cream Ale.

So if I over oxidized my beer is there any way to verify it. If I have do I just pour it out and count it as a lesson learned or is there anything I can do after the fact? Thursday will be the 21st day since brewing so if it's salvageable I guess I need to bottle soon.

I didn't check it. I'm afraid maybe I did get too much air in. For some reason the auto siphon didn't want to work correctly.

The American Cream Ale I racked into secondary today. I brewed it last Thursday and hadn't seen any airlock activity in a couple of days. The Red Ale I brewed today and within maybe 3 hours it was bubbling pretty good.

Well if I haven't screwed anything up I have an American Cream Ale and Malty Mississippi Red Ales in fermenting buckets.

Rebel brew in Nashville has some good prices. I picked up a "malty Mississippi red ale kit" today along with a few other goodies.

I don't think I'm going to either. Now that I have a batch fermenting and I kinda know what I'm doing I think I'm going to buy a couple of buckets and make my own primary's. Any suggestions on the best place to buy them I like the tractor supply ones and the are food grade.

Also the guy at AlaBrew told me a lot of people are going with 1 stage fermentation.

My first batch is in the fermenting bucket. Went with American Cream Ale. Also trying 1 gallon if JOAM.

No this guy is in Madison. What about primary in a bucket then pin lock keg with an air lock? Would the keg be better than either a better bottle as secondary or 1 stage in the bucket. Read somewhere that fermenting in metal is better. Was considering it as a mead fermenter as well. Still at the...

He is asking 35 each.

More or less asking if fermenting in a keg then bottling is a good idea. As of now I prefer to bottle.

Pin locks not good?

I have a fairly local source for the kegs at what appears to be a good price. Just need to make sure using these to ferment is a good idea. Seems like one but I don't have enough knowledge to know yet.

Would a 5 gallon pin lock keg be a good primary, secondary fermenter or both? I've read they are better than glass or PET.

Excellent points. I learn from both. I like to research then learn hands on.