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• Posted in thread: Revvy's Belgian Blonde (Leffe Clone) on 05-19-2013 at 08:56 PM
  Hi to all on this forum,I saw Revvy's Leffe Clone recipe about 2 years ago and I saved the link
  as a favourite so I could come back to it.So here I go.It's the first time i've tried brewing
  from grain...

• Posted in thread: Beer Emergency--deploying for 7 months in less than 5 days on 05-17-2013 at 03:15 PM
  Quick update, I bottled today. Surprisingly, the mold(?) did not seem to affect the flavor or
  aroma of the beer much. I think I sensed an ever-so-slight apple/peary fruity aroma, but it was
  tough to t...

• Posted in thread: Funny things you've overheard about beer on 05-17-2013 at 02:05 PM
  All this dissing of Guinness' flavor is pretty disgusting on a site like this. It's a dry Irish
  stout. It's the classic style - all other dry stout aims for that flavor (if in style). Those
  wine forum...

• Posted in thread: On aerating wort... on 05-16-2013 at 03:07 PM
  Wine whip, sloshing carboy, splashing, drill bit with paint stirrer... doesn't matter how you
  do it. Thing is, no matter WHAT you do, with plain air you are never going to get more than 8
  PPM of O2 di...

• Posted in thread: Raising ABV in secondary? on 05-16-2013 at 01:55 PM
  Tasting flat beer in the fermenter - especially if you are a new brewer - is an almost
  guaranteed way to be disappointed.It is amazing what carbonation and a little age will do for
  beer. If your beer ...

• Posted in thread: Priming sugar on 05-15-2013 at 02:48 PM
  Use the priming sugar calculator here lets you adjust volume, as well as sugar (if you wanted
  to use something other than dextrose/corn sugar) and CO2 volumes based on style, and temp also
  (I heard s...

• Posted in thread: Putting yeast back into suspension before racking into bottling bucket??? on 05-15-2013 at 02:31 PM
  Hmm. It's strange that I'm certain the reading I'd done in the past have typically warned that
  fermenting in the primary for more than a month is bad - off flavors, soapiness etc - and for
  the life in...

• Posted in thread: Lot of headspace in primary on 05-15-2013 at 02:26 PM
  Agreed, leave it. Once you start getting bubbles, you know that CO2 is pushing the oxygen out.
  As long as you don't disturb it, you are fine.The issues arise when you have unpurged
  secondaries with lo...

• Posted in thread: trying to save a bad but non infected beer on 05-15-2013 at 01:36 PM
  The extract flavor may fade with time, but fermentation won't fix it. Yeast eat sugars, not
  flavor extracts, so that won't change.Dumping the bottles back into a fermenter is pretty much
  assuring oxid...

• Posted in thread: Putting yeast back into suspension before racking into bottling bucket??? on 05-15-2013 at 01:33 PM
  Someone was telling me that if you let the beer clear by letting it sit in the primary for a
  couple of weeks that there may not be enough yeast left in suspension for the priming sugar to
  do its job a...