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I bottled my Cream Ale the other day and was surprised when I noticed how light the yeast cake was. I'm used to having a good layer of white across the entire bottom of the carboy. Is this normal? Does it mean there is little yeast? Maybe I will need to bottle condition longer. Just to...

Hey Guys, In a few days I will be doing my first bottling in a long while. I have all the gear for sanitizing the bottles (vinator/bottle tree) but I will be using old 650ml beer bottles I have saved up over the year. Should I do a more heavy duty "clean" before I sanitize? Thanks, Matt

Hey Guys, I am doing a Anchor Brewing Liberty Ale Clone and I have a few questions. We brewed this up on Nov 22 and racked it to the secondary on Dec 05. When we racked to the secondary we added the dry hops (Cascade). I was planning on letting it sit for two weeks but I recently...

I am about to rack my beer from primary to secondary. It has been a week and we got everything sanitized and ready then we did the gravity test. 2 days ago the gravity was 101.5 and now it is 101.0. I read that you should wait until the gravity doesn't change for 3 days. I don't wanna rack...

I started a cream ale a week and half ago. The Og was 1042 when I added to the primary. I just did a check before I racked to the secondary and it is at 1009. Does that make sense? Isn't that low? Thanks for the help! Matt

Hey guys, I am just getting back into brewing and I have a question about my gear. In my old kit I have a primary and secondary. It seems like people here mostly only use a primary and the arguements are pretty compelling. My issue is that my primary does have have an airlock. Should I...