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It has a nice white fuzzy layer on top. It took me about a week before I tried to pitch the yeast.

So, being the lazy person I am, I waited too long to pitch yeast after brewing (I blame it on the yeast I bought not looking like it was good, it was clumpy in the starter, and trying to give it more time to... I don't even know). And now I have an infection in the batch. Would pitching my...

I want to brew a nice bourbon oaked barleywine but am having some trouble coming up with a recipe. Is the basic equation a ton of base malt and small amounts of specialty malts? I've been thinking of using marris otter, because i believe it to be slightly more flavorful than 2-row (without any...

I've seen the yeast ones, and i do have one on my phone for hops. What i'm really interested in is something that would tell you the flavor profile a certain malt would give a beer. Instead of having to just experiment with different malts.

I was wondering the other day, is there any sort of compendium of ingredients, such as grains, hops, and yeast available?

It's an APA, OG at 1.052 and 5.5 gallons 8.5 lbs 2-row pale malt 1 lb 40L caramel .5 lb CaraPils .5 lb pale wheat .2 lb biscuit Cascade hops(7% AA) .75 oz at 60 min .75 oz at 20 min .75 oz at 10 min 1 oz at 2 min 1 oz at flameout WLP001, White labs California Ale yeast...

So, im in the middle of brewing some oatmeal stout, while sipping on some Fat Tire clone (from northern brewer) Day started off terrible, but is going well now. just wanted to let everyone know!

Unless you've had used a tea ball in the past to boil your hops and have good results, i would suggest you go a different route. I used one for a brew I did a while back, and I must say the bitter was lacking. I was using pellet hops (which might be where the problem arose), which just...

I recently got, "I can't taste any alcohol in this. Is there any alcohol in this?" I really can't remember the last time I tried a beer and thought, "Hmm I can really taste the alcohol."

I was actually looking for Fort Collin's water profile, but couldn't find it on the county/city's website. Thanks a lot, this is very helpful.

Does anyone have an idea of what water profile to use for a Fat Tire Amber Ale clone?

So, early Sept. I made Northern Brewer's American Wheat all grain kit. Everything seemed to go well. Yet after having been kegged for close to a month now it taste like I'm drinking hydrochloric acid. I've given it to a couple of people to try, and they all say the same thing, "tastes acidic"...

I'm just beginning to build my keezer and am stuck between getting all perlick creamer faucets (the 575ss) or just getting regular 425ss(?). Is there any real advantage to the 575ss?

thanks for all the replies, but i feel if i cut into any power line, something might blow up, and people wouldn't be to happy if that happened. I ended up just buying a Ranco like 30 min ago. prewired of course.

I'm going to be building my keezer soon, but am currently looking into temp controllers. I really like the look of the love controllers but can't figure out for the life of me if I'd have to wire it myself into the freezer of it's a "plug-n-play" type deal. If anyone could please help me out...