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In this case the blow off tube still was ineffective. I removed the airlock this morning and put on a blow off tube and it still popped the top with the build up of foam

70-72 degrees was room temperature. that's about as cold as my house is right now

So I've been brewing off and on for a few years. A batch here and there basically. Yesterday I brewed a batch of Irish Stout. I got an extract kit from northern brewer. I had an extra 6lbs of LME kicking around and wanted to bump up the ABV a little. The kit estimated OG 1.042 so I added...

Thanks for the info.

I see where I went wrong. I thought that since it was just sitting on a shelf the extra oxygen in the neck of the bottle could cause issues

Okay so from what I have read on here.... 1. If you go straight from fermentation chamber to keg (refrigerated) and you like it a little dry, you don't need to pasteurize. 2. If you go from fermentation to keg (refrigerated) and add some juice to sweeten you don't need to pasteurize. 3. If...

I like the idea of fermenting apple cider with nothing but sugar or honey added and then back sweeten or add other fruit juices to taste. How often do you mix some juice with other juices before fermentation? Does the other juice change flavor during fermentation?

That's what I threw in there. Thanks.

So my OG was 1.09 and now it's at 1.02 and no signs of going further. I just used a basic ale yeast. What additive do I need to make sure all the yeast is gone so I can put it in bottles?

I just might throw in another bottle and see what happens.

So I am doing my second cider. 2 gallons of honey crisp from trader joes. I added some sugar and mixed it in really well. Pitched my yeast and the next day things were happily bubbling. It's been bubbling for about 10 days or so. I get a bubble about every minute so I get the idea that I...

I put it in the top of my pantry. Sitting at a cool 70 degrees f

I'm going to pull a sample today and check. My og was 1.31 (first all grain) so well see. I've only got 50 gallons of brewing under my belt so I'm still a noob

So I'm doing a gallon batch for fun, I used a half a packet of yeast. So theoretically 2.5 times what's required. The fermentation kicked off very quickly and then died off the next day. It's been 3 days. Do you think the fermentation is done? The recipe said ferment for 2 weeks. I...