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As a resident of Texas I'm familiar with the smell of sulfur and that definitely isn't it. My roommate thinks I may be exaggerating the strength of the smell, but it definitely isn't a normal beer smell. I can report back in two weeks when the bottling process is done and let you guys know if...

I thought that the time spent in the fermenter was pretty short, too. But in both cases the bubbling stopped for over a day before we moved anything. I'd post the recipe, but I don't think I'm allowed to. It's the Austin Homebrew 'cracked' version of Fat Tire. In terms of our methods, we were...

Hi, my name is JD and I bottled my first batch of beer about a week ago. Me and my roomate got into it and fumbled our way through the process by reading through forums like this one. The recipe we used calls for three weeks in the bottle before we drink, but we went ahead and drank one each...