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I currently have a pale ale in secondary fermentation in a carboy. I decided to dry hop the brew and added about 1/2 oz of cascade pellets. Being a beginner, I just dumped in the pellets. They disintegrated and are now floating in the top 1/4 to 1/2 inch of the brew. WIll they ever drop...

I got home today and checked out my new fermentation chiller (Son of a fermentation chiller to be exact) and found my krausen creeping out of the airlock. "Hmmmmm... ," said I, "I'd best put in a blow-off tube." I pulled out the airlock and WHHOOOSSSHHHH!!!:eek: I was attacked my my day old...

I racked my latest brew yesterday from the primary bucket to a glass carboy for secondary. I had some trouble last batch in getting a good siphon and lost about half a gallon in primary, so I was spending some time making sure the siphon was nice for this batch. Unfortunately, I noticed when I...

The starter kit I got included the standard 2 5.5 gal plastic pails, tubing, etc. I have my first batch of IPA bubbling away in my primary. I needed more bottles so I went over to a friends to get some bottles from him. He had been doing some homebrew a few years ago, so he suggested that I...

I started my first batch of home brew last night. The brew went well, I guess, except that I had a bit of trouble getting the temperature of the wort down below 78 degrees to pitch the yeast. I tossed in some extra cool water (about a quarter gallon and some ice cubes, so the wort was standing...