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Did my first cider a couple weeks ago. I racked to keg when fermentation was complete. Approx. 5 days ago. Used unpasteurized cider and white wine yeast. When cleaning the carboy the smell of the yeast sludge was awful. Somewhat sourish/eggish? Anyway I tried the cider today and it tastes pretty...

Greetings from Upper, NY. We are getting ready to enter the great apple seaon up here before the cold winter settles in. I have many all grain beer brews under my belt and have lots of equipment not getting used. I also keg and use a chest freezer for the kegs. So now I'm ready to try something...

Greetings and happy New Year everyone. Let's hope for a healthy and wealthy brewing year! :mug: I have some $$ to spend and I am looking to replace my boil kettle. I would like to buy a stainless kettle, I do 5 gallon batches but know I should plan for future 10 gallon size. So with that in...

I thought I had a bag of priming sugar! I got everything ready to bottle my BM Octoberfast and AHHHHH...!! None to be found. Can I use cane sugar (table sugar) with good/equvalent results?? Should I just pack everything up until I can get priming sugar? I'm out of DME and I have no other sugars...

I use my keezer to maintain a steady temp for fermentation. After the beer has reached final gravity is it safe to start the crash cool process? Then remove the fermenter from the keezer and just let the beer sit on the yeast cake for a few weeks? When I say remove it from the keezer that means...

I brewed a BierMuncher Helles Belles. It turned out great but damn do I have some serious floaters. Looks more like the Smutty Nose IPA beer. Below is the recipe (I did half for a 5 gallon batch). 15.00 lb Pilsner (2 Row) Ger (2.0 SRM) 1.00 lb Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) 1.00 lb Vienna Malt (3.5...

Uh-Oh. I just bought and crushed ingredients to do a BM Krispier Kolsch. 7.00 lb Pilsner (2 Row) Ger (2.0 SRM) 1.00 lb Wheat Malt, Ger (2.0 SRM) 0.50 lb Honey Malt (25.0 SRM) 1.00 oz Hallertauer [4.80%] (60 min) 0.20 oz Saaz [3.80%] (15 min) 0.20 oz Saaz [3.80%] (5 min) 1 Pkgs Kolsch...

As I was looking through the small hops selection tonight at my LHBS I noticed most of the hops alpha ratings were different then my notes and then even different then the chart at the store. Is this normal for the these alpha ratings to sometimes not even be close to what beer smith says they...

OK so I've got a half dozen or more brews under my belt and they all have, so far, turned out to be great beer. So what are the consequences of missing OG and FG by a few points (2 or 3) when brewing beer? I know if your chasing an exact beer style then things may not be perfect but what other...

I am brewing this weekend and when I thought my Wyeast 2565 wasn't going to take off in my starter I panicked. I ran to my LHBS and picked up an extra one. Well my starter is doing just fine so...Obliviously these liquid smack packs aren't like having an extra dry yeast packet around not to...

Well brew day is looming..On Saturday I hope to brew. This morning I smacked my Wyeast 2565 Kolsch yeast activator pack. I got home from work expecting a bloated pack to make my starter. Well the pack was just as I left it. No swelling at all, although after I smacked it this morning I could...

I'm doing a BierMuncher Helles Belles this weekend. So far I've had to substitute hops and now the yeast. My LHBS only carries Wyeast Activator packs and not the White Labs WLP029 yeast called for. So I picked what seemed closest the Wyeast 2565 Kolsch Yeast activator. Does this seem like it...

So this weekend I hope to brew a BierMuncher Helles Belles. He calls for Tettnang hops. Well as we all know those proably won't be around for awhile. So I looked up and found that two substitutes would be Saaz or Spalt. My local LHBS said that either of those would be fine but Crystal was a...

Last Thursday on 6/5 I added a tablespoon of hydrated gelatin (unflavored knox) to my centennial ale in secondary. I've read from others that you should bottle within a day or two. I haven't had a chance to bottle yet. Last night I popped the top and saw this large pale blob of stuff floating in...

Three weeks ago I brewed a BM Centennial Blonde. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=42841 Gravity readings seem to have settled out now but I still have good size krausen on top. I generally wait a few days after that settles before bottling but I haven't seen on take this long to...

I've been trying to gather more info about crash cooling. I haven't found anything definitive on it. Can someone list the procedure and the reasons for doing it? Maybe it nothing more than throwing your fermenter in the fridge for a few days? But how long and what effects does it have? Thanks...

Ahh..The age old question and it has been beaten to death. But somehow I feel my circumstances are unique..(Not). OK so normally I would just leave my beer in the primary for about 2 weeks for yeast clean up etc. then go right to bottling. I brewed my first AG 8 days ago (BierMuncher's...

My first AG brew went pretty good in my opninon. I had a pretty decent plan in placed and I am excited now to taste the fruits of my labor. Only one equipment failure on the burner and I bought a new fryer so problem solved. The proces took ymabout 8 hours start to finish. The sparge time took...

Well my plan is all set (so I think) and I'm attempting my first AG brew! I'm pretty excited but also very anxious about screwing this up. I've made a checklist and I've been reviewing notes and things. I will try and post the brew sheet from beer smith. I'll take any input. I'm brewing...