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I had something similar happen. Here was my recipe: 4.00 lb Wheat Dry Extract 3.00 lb Pilsner (2 Row) Ger 0.75 oz Tettnang [4.80%] 1 Pkgs Hefeweizen Ale (White Labs #WLP300) OG 1.055 FG 1.000 Actual FG seems to go below 1.000, but not by much. Fermentation was strong the first 72 hours and...

oh and thanks for all the replies. It was the first i have seen of this, so wasn't sure what to make of it. The beer has turned out very good, now i need to get my keg to pour without all the damn foam.

lol that floor is nasty! can't even tell with the normal light on, guess the flash shows its true colors!

So, I added the pellet hops 5 days ago. Now, there are little air bubbles all over the carboy and on the surface. Also, there are two layers at the bottom, yeast at the very bottom and then i don't know what is on top of that. Anyone have a clue as to what this is?

I had my yeast shipped here(arizona) a few weeks ago. It sat by my front door in direct sunlight for at least 5 hours. It was about 110 degrees that day. The inside of the box was an oven and all my ingredients were pretty hot. I put the yeast in the fridge asap and brewed with it a week later...

UPDATE: Its been a week since brewing, so I decided to take a gravity reading. Gravity is at 1.018. I tasted what I had tested and it had a fairly strong alcohol taste, but very close to what I have tasted of Irish reds. Its almost close to a scotch ale, but a lot lighter in color. I think its...

So, you guys have probably answered this a thousand times, but I can't seem to find an answer for my problem. I brewed my second batch two days ago. It is a partial mash Irish Red Ale non-kit brew. My OG was 1.070. I aerated and pitched one packet of Wyeast 1084 at 70 degrees. Not thinking about...