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Does everyone have a mini yeast cake at the bottom of their bottles or am I doing something wrong?

My secondary carboy is now been full of dry-hopped IPA for 7 days. I'm afraid to rack to bottles because the airlock is still bubbling and their is quite a bit of Krausen on top. I'd be comfortable just letting it sit in their awhile except I've read how you don't want those hops in there over...

That is what I bought, any thoughts about the strength of that decision. I guess I could exchange it.

I'm brewing a partial mash/extract of a brown ale for my third batch so far. My question is about dry hopping. I plan to add .5 oz of each of the three hops i am boiling with including pearle. IS this a good strategy even though it is not in the recipe i was given?

I have a Scottish ale in the secondary on its 3rd day. It was in the primary for 10 days. How much longer would keep it in the secondary before racking?

I'm hearing/reading quite often how secondary fermentation is less prevalent now. I'm wondering why that is.

I've brewed two batches so far. In the first one I boiled three gallons then cooled the wort by pouring it over two gallons of spring water that was frozen. On the second batch I boiled 5 gallons and used an immersion chiller of my neighbors but it leaked close to a gallon of water into the...

This looks like an amazing online community. I have my second batch in the primary right now so I have a million questions. Looking forward to a future of new discoveries, successes, and even setbacks. Thanks in advance for any help I can get from you.

Am on my second beer and things have not gone very smoothly. My first was an Irish Red that was great through both fermentations but I mistakenly used half the corn sugar before bottling so it was terribly flat. After realizing my mistake I rebottled the reaming beer(90%) and added the rest of...