Thanks guys. I've ordered the kit, should be here next week.

Good input on adjusting the pre-boil size...thanks.

Okay, I've decided to take a make another visit to the dark side (away from my Mr Beer training wheels) and do a boil with hops and everything to make a Fat Tire clone beer from extract using an ingredient kit from MoreBeer. The kit comes with 8 pounds of extract and 1.5 pounds of specialty malts fo...

I do find your comment that you were not impressed with an extract, steeping grain, hop boil odd. I do not find your comment that you are satisfied with what you are brewing as odd. To be clear, I didn't use steeping grains. I was talking to the proprietor of my local home brew shop, where I regula...

I started with Mr Beer along time ago, and somehow never quite made the switch. I tried one batch of DME/boiled hops beer last spring and it was ok, but not noticeably better, at least not better enough to justify the large increase in time and effort. I'll probably try the full boil again at some p...

Hi Guys! I started with Mr Beer last winter when I got one for Christmas and brewed 11 batches of beer between January and May of last year, when it get too hot to brew here in Atlanta. Now as the year starts over, so am I. I've got batches of "Baby Got Bock" , "1776" and a hard ...