I can definitely feel your pain and frustration! Mine was all powered extract which I found when you try to dump it into steaming hot liquid will cause it to clump in the bag and turn into a charcoal hard brick. When I went to chill it with my fancy wart chiller hooked to the garden hose I found...

You are right on the nose JA, it's hoppier than I expected it to be. It still didn't taste bad though. Thanks for the info, I think I'll be taking some advice from all of you. Rather and risk infection I'll just bottle the 4 gallons and use the calculator Medarius linked to for priming. I'm...

So, totally new to homebrewing. The recipe called for 5 gallons of water to make the wart, which I boiled. When I was done, I had 4 gallons. I know NOW that I was supposed to add water to get back to 5 gallons in the fermenter, which I didn't do. Now it's time to bottle. My question is: do I...