Cool. Where do you source your berries? Long Island strawberries were excellent this year, I made a pie.

If you like the growlers, go ahead and use them. I'm not saying one is better than the other, I just answered your question about bottling. I like the kegs even better. Quicker to fill and carb, easy to tap half a beer or two. The biggest shortcoming of kegs is that I can only keep two different bee...

I used 12 oz bottles from craft beer. I got mine from my local beer distributor for the 5c return.

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Sorry to hear that.

Hi Andrew, welcome aboard!
Read this thread from the start, you'll find your answers.

Great! I love it!

A minimash APA and a BIAB Rye Lager brewed today.
Also had a boil over, broke my hydrometer jar, and forgot my one minute hops. It will be beer. Good thing we're having leftovers tonight, because I might mess up dinner too!

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With practice you'll become more comfortable with the whole process. But all of us still have questions.

No, the yeast will find everything they want to eat. And when they get really active they will stir the wort.

The first thing I ever brewed was root beer from an old cookbook recipe. Step one: collect sassafras root.
It was good, but over carbed.

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Welcome aboard! You came to the right place.
If I can make one suggestion to start, it is to be patient. If I remember correctly, most hopped extract kits recommend a quick ferment of a week or two. I usually let mine ferment three weeks. Good luck, have fun, keep us posted.