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From what I have been reading and looking at I feel more reassured that its ok. But I would like some extra opinions. I am about 2 weeks in and the mother is lodged up against the forming baby. The area in question is where the mother is. It looks green but is not on top layer. The baby also is...

That was air temp but the I took a beer temp from the hydrometer tube and it was close to that also. It looks like I need a fermentation chamber or keep the carboy on ice because I cant keep my house cooled like an ice box

I brewed an OLD ale as my second beer on saturday OG 1.076 . I went out that night and got home and saw a bubble and got excited. I wake up the next morning and Im laying in bed, why dont I hear a bubble?, I thought. I look at my carboy and beer is flooded through the airlock and fermentation...

Long drawn out story: This weekend I brewed my second beer, an old strong ale. Fermentation went wild and it was pretty cool to see. Not longer after fermentation started a roommate tells me the AC unit is being replaced the next day. I immediately began to panic obviously because I dont want...

So eventually after seeing all the sugar still sitting on the bottom of the carboy i decided to put the handle of my stir paddle in there and mix it all up. That really made the air lock take off for a day. After it slowed down I added 1 lb of dextrose since the recipe was such a low abv. That...

Okay so I just pour some beer into my hydrometer tube, I figured it would help mix it up anyways. I got a reading of 1.020. I hope I can see the yeast reaction from yeast soon. From the looks of it now it the tube it will probably be a very pale ale.

Okay I mixed it up a quite a bit. I think im going to take a hydrometer reading today or tomorrow. Then another reading in a week or so to see where its at. I guess just wait and see...

I just followed the recipe for the most part. I mixed all the hops together and did a continuos hop like hogfish head. I now know to use as much water as possible during the boil. The instruction on this recipe is what killed me as a first timer. The color of the water on top looks suprising...

Indian Pale Ale Tampa Bay Brewing Company Original Recipe Designed by John Doble - Brewmaster 6.5 lbs Pale Malt Extract 1 lb Dry Light Mal 16 oz Vienna 8 oz Carapilis 4 oz Victory 8 oz Munich 2 oz Nothern Brewer (bittering) 2 oz Columbus (flavoring) 2 oz Cascade (finishing) 1...

The recipe was for a regular 5 gallon batch, got this from the store I bought the stuff from. The recipe I had prepare when I went there was for all grain and they pointed it out and said I wasnt set up for it. So I just went with an extract recipe they had there. I did have a pretty small...

So I am brand new to homebrewing and have been fascinated with it recently. I got all the equipment and picked out an IPA recipe that they had at the store. The recipe called to bring 1 1/2 gallons to boil. It also called to add the dry and liquid malt extract into the boil after 40 mins...