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It's fermenting like crazy right now. Right now it's at about 19 degrees, I'm trying to get it to a little lower temp, but so far it's going good. It started fermenting really fast so I have high hopes.

I used the calculation in the coopers instructions and it adds the .5% for priming already. I didn't realize that before, but thanks anyways.

.5%? or .05%?

Alright I got everything in the fermenter. I ended up just using the 3# DME with the kit. I made a sticky mess because I had a boil-over, but other than that everything went smooth. The OG is 1050 so it might be a little higher abv than normal. But the higher alc. is fine with me anyway, it...

So how would you balance out a high alcohol beer? Add hops?

I think I'm just gonna use the 3lbs of DME. I have another question though. This will be my first time using DME, should I boil it? I've heard of doing this but I wasn't sure if it's completely necessary.

Alright. It looks like I'll be reducing the amount of sugar then. Thanks for the help.

So a lot of you guys are saying that I have too much sugar. Are there any bad things that can happen with too much sugar? Or is it just an ABV preference for most of you?

Thanks for the help guys. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Hey guys, this is my first post on here and I have a question about my second brew. I'm planning on using the Coopers English Bitter kit, 3 pounds light dry malt extract, and 2 pounds light brown sugar. My question is am I adding too much brown sugar? Should I cut it down to 1 pound? Thanks in...