Hi everyone!
I'm new to home brewing and I have a couple questions... I brew my first batch this past saturday.. It was the block party amber ale that comes with a northern Brewer kit...everything went fine except I almost had a boil over but I read that adding some cold water kills it and it worked haha...well I put it in the fermentation bucket after I cooled it down in ice (took about 20 mins) and I pitches the dry yeast directly because I wasn't sure if I should rehydrate or do a starter since well, it's my first time.... My concern is that about 4 hours after, the fermentation air lock started bubbling vigorously....next day it had slow down significantly but I would see bubbles every 10 seconds or so...but yesterday and today I haven't seen any... Is that normal? I'm not 100% sure about the temperature but my digital thermometer reads 73 outside the bucket...and the closet it's in stays at that temperature also...is it normal? I noticed that the water from the bubbler had almost depleted so I added a little purified water.
Thanks in advance