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Thanks guys. It was 6lb Ultra Light Malt Extract 1lb Lactose 1lb Black Patent 12 oz Crystal 75L 2 oz Cascade I racked 3 weeks ago. Man, you should see how black it is...

This is my 6th brew. All successful but this one. Full boil Sweet Stout. The color is black. Solid black. This is the first time I made no stupid mistakes. It tastes kind of burnt. I'm not a big stout fan to begin with but I like a sweet beer and I wanted to brew a dark beer. My question...

I was chilling my 8 gallon kettle in a blue keg tub full of ice with the lid on. I swirled it really good then I took the lid off to take a temp reading and a few drops of ice water that splashed on the lid dripped in my wort. My question is, how and when will I know if it was continated and...

I took a peak and there is some foam on top. Not a lot though and it looks as if I may have lost a half inch of wort. I put the lid back on tight and guess I'll wait it out. I've never opened the lid before. Scared I'd contaminate it.

Oops sorry. I'm using a Bucket.

No bubbles at all. The yeast was a London something. The date was good. I checked for leaks. I'm in Baja and have no other yeast available but I do have a liquid Hefe tube and or I can get some Mexican baking yeast. Should I pitch the Hefe yeast. Remember my wort is a sweet stout.

I brewed a Sweet Stout. I had no problems. I did a full boil and started with 5 gallons of water but after removing the steeping grain bags and through evaporation I lost well over a gallon. So I topped it off to 5g and was careful to pitch the yeast at a room temperature to my wort at around...

Maybe this is a stupid question. I did a full boil of a Sweet Stout and after my boil I lost more than a gallon of wort. I took a reading before I topped off to 5 gallons and it read 1.24 instead of 1.045 as it should have. Is it because it was concentrated? I don't want to disturb it to...

My liquid tube doesn't have a date. How long is it good for? I bought it January 12th 2014. Stupid of me to have let it hang but I had to. I brew in Baja and **** happens.

Two days to Puertecitos OMG! It takes less than 3 hours to get to San Felipe from the Calexico border. It's another hour from there. They are trying to connect that hwy (5) to Hwy (1) on the Pacific side. It's actually a beautiful road once past Puertecitos. It's pretty much paved now all...

So what would happen if you accidentally spilled a tad of vodka into the air lock onto the wort because you forgot to put the top plastic cone thing on your fermenter first?

Wile E, This is only my 3rd brew. I have brewed Hefe each time. This time I did a full boil. I like the ice bottles and tub suggestion. Being on solar limits my power situation. I have been told to try Belgian. Not sure I have ever tasted a Begian beer. I like Hefe. I grew up drinking Bud...

Thanks guys. I'll let you know how it turns out. The ambient temp has been 80 in the house almost everywhere and a lot hotter outside. I've been reading a thermometer I have sitting under the wet towel like 3 times a day and it has always hung around 79 or so.

I have a batch of Hefe in it's 6th day in primary fermenter. I'm in Baja Ca and it's been really hot here. I keep the fermenter wrapped with a black wet towel and have a fan on it. It's been hanging around 78 degrees during the day the past few days. I live in a solar home so I have no AC...

1 cup sugar in a plastic liter bottle then I added 1/4 tsp of Hodgson Mill yeast and shook it really good then swirled it to make it concave then added 1 tblsp root beer extract. I added water to about 1/2 of bottle and swirled it to dissolve everything. I filled the bottle up to an inch from...