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Raspberry Hefeweizens are great, I'm thinking along the lines of Abita purple haze here. Smoking a hookah the other day with raspberry and rose tobacco, I realized how well these two flavors go together. A little bit of rose really enhances raspberry...so, I thought I would start with this...

Well, it had been in the primary for eight days. Racked it, *strong* sulfur smell. I think this was probably from the campden tablets - I used five of them. It's now in the secondary, how long do you think it will take to go away? Also, it's a lot drier than I expected (or have had...it...

I think I would like to brew a smallish ( one or two gallon ) batch of cider for fall. I want to do it with organic juice, it just seems more authentic that way. I found this: http://www.organickingdom.com/js163.html I think my local health food store has something similar. This is cool...

I've always used bottled spring water...except for my last two batches, I used tap water in those. Both batches foam and bubble very easily after malt extract has been added when I use tap water. I have racked the first already...it continues to form iridescent bubbles and foam. I thought...

Alright, so this week I'm going to do a partial. I would like to do a full but I don't have the equipment (can't afford it yet). Still, I would like to learn about sparging, mashing, balancing PH using gypsum and CaCO3, starch conversion, various grain types, and all that good stuff. So...

Hi, I have done five or six batches of beer. Each one was extract based with steeped grains. I would like to do partial mashes or all grain...but don't know where to start. One thing that might be stopping me is pot size...I have a 22 quart stainless steel pot, and a 20 quart "stainless...

My first brew started out very bad, I used way to little water. As bottles gold older, they developed a very strong metallic twang to them. I fear this is happening with my second batch...the bottles are a week old now, and are starting to taste sort of metallic. But they were delicious a...

Well basically it didn't bubble at all in the primary, although an inch of krausen residue was left when I racked it to secondary after nine days or so. It's been in the secondary for two days now and there is a lot of trub. But I have a sinking suspicion that it never fermented at all! I...

So it's been a week after I bottled my first batch...which spent a week in a primary and a week in the secondary. I followed the instructions fairly well, but only used 3.7 gallons instead of the required five. I opened my first bottle today and it was incredibly malty and sweet. It also...

Well, I just brewed my second batch. It was a half mash that used 13 oz of specialty grains with 2 lbs DME and 3.3 lbs LME. Also, bittering/finishing hops. I was brewing at a friends house, and we use a butane stove. The grain was put in, temperature brought to 165 and maintained for 20...

Well today I racked my first batch. It had only been 4.5 days, but the bubbler airlock wasn't bubbling and it wasn't even under pressure anymore (water levels equal). I siphoned it with my mouth since I was too inept to use anything else, but I did rinse my mouth with vodka and submerge in...

Well, my bubbler wasn't bubbling so I gave my primary fermenter a good shake. It started bubbling, but a bunch of beer went through the bubbler and I'm worried about sanitation (since before, it was sanitized/sterile water). I've poured some sanitation solution into the bubbler, and since it...

I'm going to rack my brew to a glass carboy for secondary fermentation. What exactly is the point of racking it from my plastic tub to a glass carboy? I suppose it will make bottling easier as I can use a spigot. Should I be careful not to disturb the yeast at the bottom of the primary...

Well, I brewed my first batch of beer last night (an IPA using hopped muntons extract and unhopped amber ale extract). I underestimated the amount of ice needed to cool the wort (note to self: make wort cooler), so it took quite a while to cool. I'm worried about infection from this, and...