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I have been considering straining or filtering my wort ever since I have begun having trouble with clogged kegs. I was wondering if it would be possible (and beneficial) to filter my finished wort through my grain bag that I used for steeping. My thought was that it would filter out a lot of...

I kegged my first batch last weekend. I force carbonated, hooked everything up, and when I went to serve, the beer barely came out of the picnic faucet. After a minute it totally stopped. my first thought was the outlet tube was clogged with sediment, so I attached the inlet tubing to the outlet...

A friend and I are hosting a fairly large St. Patty's Day party at a lodge near us. Guinness, Smithwicks, Bass, and other Irish/English beers are normally served, but since we've started home brewing more often we wanted to add a home brew kick to this year's events. We're going to make at...

I brwed my extract bitter four weeks ago, its still in the fermenter. This is my 4th overall batch, and my 2nd of this kind, so I know what it should look and smell like. About 1 week in I noticed some weird spots floating at the top, it almost looked like a off colored mold. I noticed as...

I just boiled my second batch tonight, a Dry Irish Stout. The kit suggested OG was 1.042, and I've seen it as high as 1.056 on other recipes. I followed all of the directions and had a pretty mistake-free (relatively, of course, to my first batch) brew session. At the end I took a SG reading...

What are the best times to test your beer (or wort) throughout the whole process? I thought I read somewhere you can sip the cooled wort and get a good feeling if the beer came out ok... And I'm assuming you can taste during and after primary fermentation, and at bottling... Am I wrong on any...

How early can you tell if your batch has been evaded by bacteria? My carboy started bubbling probably 10 hours after I sealed it. It would bubble from the airlock every 5 seconds or so. Now it has been reduced to every 20 seconds or so. Is this normal? Or is this a sign that bacteria...