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Just wondering because I've pulled 2 samples at 1 week and 2 1/2 weeks and hit my gravity but when I bottled, it had strange, lingering, i-guees-cardboard-taste, almost like plastic, when I took a nip of the wort from the bottling bucket. It wasn't there before with my two sample pulls. I used...

Is it bad to look at the wort with a flashlight while it's doing its thing?

So. All I do is read HBT while I'm at work and I love it but something has occured to me. There are countless topics/threads/discussions regarding length of primary fermentation and length. We've all read it before so let's not go there. But my question pertains to the fact that extended...

In less that 8 hours. For the first time in four years I cannot go and me and my friends pretty bummed. And in way, I blame the show Brew Masters. I have no doubts that it sold out so quick because of that show and everyone thinking beer is now the hipster thing to get into. In fact, I...

I just want to confirm that Light DME is ok for priming/carbing. I've been searching all over and reading that, yes, it is and that there's apparently the chance of smaller bubbles but at the cost of a longer carbing time. I'm just afraid, since it's light, that it won't carb up like it should...

Anyone headed to TAP NY this year!? It's not only a beer fest, it's a fine food fest too! This year's theme is BBQ. It'll be my third year and its one of the best festivals I've EVER been to and I've been to quite a few here in NY and surrounding (Itacha Beer Fest, Syracuse Beer Fest...

Everytime I go to Watkins Glen and hike the Gorge with SWMBO, we stop by the Crooked Rooster and get pints of, what I think, is the best nut brown on the East Coast and talk to Doug. Its darker than your average nut brown, almost black and has a minute red tint at the bottom of the glass if...

I bottled my Austin Homebrew Nut Brown two weeks ago. When bottling, I added NOT EVEN a 1/4 ounce of hazelnut extract w/ my priming sugar. (side note: I posted a question if I should have added it before I did and no one provided any hints or tips...which, now that I think about it, pretty...

I ordered the Austin Homebrew Nut Brown kit and am going to add some hazelnut extract at bottling. I've been toying with adding just a little cold-steeped coffee as well. Not much, just enough for a hint. Anyone have suggestions, thoughts, positive input telling me this isn't such a bad...

I'm planning on brewing soon but I have to move into an new apartment. I want the beer ready for a special occasion but this move puts a damper in my (possible) racking schedule. I know racking is for settling and clearing but can you move a secondary carboy (unlike a primary, where you...

I probably already know the answer to this but I'm just calming ny nerves. I doubled the amount of hops the recipe called for for the Tru Brew IPA. I chose Centenial for the boil and Cascade for the finishing. I sampled the hydrometer reading (1.020) and, of course, its very bitter. I love...

Hey. I started reading this site the day after I stashed my carboy in my closet for primary. The info and different opinions on this site rival and even surpass both of Papazian's books I read (both Joy and Companion). I attend Extreme Beer Fest every year in Boston, TAP NY at Hunter...

Just made my first (as of yet no-name) IPA. After steeping the grains in the water and removing them, my brewing partner (my girlfriend) asked if we just throw out the grains, grain sock and all. She said it seemed like a waste of material. She has a point. Recommendations for future seep...