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The two months time in secondary was per the instructions of the kit. Bulk conditioning. It does look quite dark there -- lightens up in a smaller vessel though. I don't think it has grown in the three days I've been aware of it so hopefully that's a good sign..

↑ meep meep ↑ Sorry to bump, but really eager for some feedback on these shots.

I've had a Belgian Tripel in secondary for 2 months. I only noticed this yesterday, but something has developed along one edge of the surface that has me worried it might be an infection. Attached are images. Feedback would be appreciated.

My lager fridge called it quits last night. I will be replacing it soon, unfortunately this occurred during an active lager process for a 5 gallon batch of Vienna Lager. I completed d-rest and transferred the beer to a secondary vessel for prolonged lagering. Fermentation is fully done...

Cool site. Looks like this may work... .8L first step. 1.2L 2nd step.

Hrmmm... brewersfriend.com doesn't seem to like this plan too much. Says "Starter is saturated. Increase starter size". Back to the drawing board?

Hoping you guys can verify whether or not this yeast step up plan will work... Knowns -Brewing 5 gallons of 1.050 lager -Need 350B cells to do the job -Have a single lager smack pack dated 8/13 which should have 86B viable cells -Equipment available is 2L Erlenmeyer flask and stir plate...

5 gallon batch. There were 12lbs of LME. I added 3 for the boil and 9 at flameout. It is on the low end of barleywine for sure though I think. 1.080.

re #2: It does taste a bit sweet, but not so sweet that it tastes bad. re #3: No rush to finish this beer other than one of my primaries being tied up for however much longer. I have a Columbus IPA planned for this week which also uses US-05. Perhaps I could pitch onto it in two weeks...

Brewed morebeer's extract barleywine kit: http://morebeer.com/products/barley-wine-extract-beer-kit.html Ended up with an OG of 1.080. Aerated for 1 minute from O2 canister. Pitched 1.4 packs of rehydrated US-05 as per mrmalty. Fermentation temps got away for me a bit for the first day...

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Sorry moved to fermentation forum...

Okay great this is a relief. Thanks all...

While topping of some water in my boil last night, I reached for the wrong gallon jug of liquid. Instead of pouring in about 12oz of fresh spring water, I poured in 12oz of diluted Star San mixture. A careless mistake which was no doubt aided by the quantity of homebrew I was enjoying while...

27,769.5 + 5 Honey Porter + 5 Hefe Weizen + 5 Belgian Dubbel = 27,784.5