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I just found a couple of 6 month old Stouts I brewed that were terrible when I brewed them but tasted great today. How long should I let my beer sit before I drink it?

Yeah I was thinking that it would be kind of rude. Maybe a home brew no no. I might just keep this one to myself. And anyone who kisses me.

Do you do all grain or extract brewing?

I tried to secondary ferment my 5th ale and its just caused extra work and potential contamination. Next time ill jus leave it alone.

You sound way farther ahead of where I was on my first batch.

Sorry, don't get confused. You don't want alot of head space during secondary to prevent oxidization, if your racking off the trub.

I use a 6 gallon plastic carboy for secondary and a 6.5 gallon pail for primary. If your doing 5 gallon batches you don't want to leave too much head space.

I made a bitter ale and everything went great until the primary fermentation ended and I tried to rack from a plastic carboy to a ale pail. My racking cane came apart and the bottom half fell into the carboy and i was only able to get half of the beer out. So I used my bottle filler minus the...

Hello. Hope I can get and give some good info.