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So I started a cider a few weeks ago. There was a lot of fermenting and bubbling going on in the first few days; everything looked fine. After about a week, the weather started going from extreme hot to extreme cold and I just found that my fermenter is under a pretty heavy vacuum. The three...

So about two weeks ago I bought some Red Wheat and German Pils. The grain was crushed, put into paper bags, and left in my room in a plastic bucket. I find today that the bottom of the bottom bag is wet. The wet part of the grains has some white mush on them. They smell very slightly sour...

I'm going to be brewing a wit and hefe soon and was wondering if I should make a starter for them. I'm going to be using White Labs yeast for each of them. I've heard some of the stresses put on the yeast by the underpitching can help to produce esters, which may not be a bad thing for these...

So I was brewing today with one of the floating thermometers and it broke in my wort. I fished out all the small sphere weights from the tip but was wondering if this happened to someone else. Your beer turn out OK? Anyone know what these things are made of?

Just took an OG reading on my first brew, a hefeweizen, after fermenting two weeks and got 1.011-1.012. I then tasted the beer. What is it supposed to taste like at this point? Mine had a sour flavor to it, definitely not what I was expecting. Is this normal? Or do I most likely have an...