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I have a 3-year-old Wee Heavy that has been languishing in bottles for a long time. I bulk-aged the beer for 8-9 months and apparently ALL of the yeast fell out of solution, because when I (finally) bottled it, the bottles didn't carb up. The beer its self is massively too sweet. I boiled a...

I am looking to brew some higher-alcohol beers. I have lots of brewing toys, but no O2 (yet). I just about to bottle a Scottish 90 or wee heavy (1.058 OG). I pitched two smack packs to try to compensate for having poor oxygenation. -by poor, I mean I just poured the wort slowly from the kettle...

I'm trying a retardedly high-gravity brew for 12-12-12. It's a Scottish strong, and I'm shooting for 12% alcohol (because I'm prosaic like that). I'm using BeerSmith to come up with a recipe, and I'm not sure that the volumes make sense. Here's the recipe: 22 lbs of Golden Promise 1 lb of...

Brewed a Zombie dust clone back in October. I gave it three weeks to finish fermenting and then dry hopped and promptly got so busy I haven't bottled or kegged. So that's 6+ weeks of dry hopping. How is this going to effect my beer?

I went to a garage sale this summer and bought a slug of brewing related stuff, including a few cases of bottles and a CO2 tank and regulator and some fermenters... Pretty much a bunch of random stuff, but I only paid $20 :rockin: so hey!! why not? I was cleaning out my beer cave and I...

So I entered my first brewing competition with a slightly modified clone of Pliny the Elder . I was SUPER anal about my brewing technique for this one, I'd say it's as good as I am capable of making right now. -And the score kinda sucked. 34 out of 50. I need help understanding the comments and...

I have a friend who is just starting to brew (one brew under his kilt). He went to Portland a couple of weeks ago and fell in love with C-Note IIPA from Old Lompoc brewing. I told him I'd help him make a clone... Feedback would be appreciated. C-Note Imperial IPA Final Batch Size 5.5G...

Probably just being paranoid, but help me out here... My daughter bought me a Pliny the Elder all-grain kit from MoreBeer. (and yes, she may be the best daughter in history). I made 2, 1/2 gallon starters and pitched a Wyeast 1056 pack into each. The fermentation was nothing spectacular...

I'm doing an all-grain APA. I overshot my temp on the batch sparge (I wanted 154 but I was closer to 156-7) So I know I might not get as low a gravity as I wanted for this beer. Add that my boil wasn't very vigorous (trying to brew inside) and I overshot my volume by almost a gallon. My SG...

I have a Belgian Heavy that spend a combined 5 weeks in primary and secondary. I fined with gelatin and bottled a week later. I was in the basement giving the bottles a turn and noticed that they all seem to have tiny, tiny dark floaties clinging to the sides of the bottles on the bottom...

I'm going to Sacramento Tomorrow. Where do I want to eat and drink? Any good brew pubs?:ban: Any really lousy beer places I should avoid? Help me out!

Sucrose versus Dextrose: does it really make a difference? I want to bottle tomorrow, but I don't want to schlep down to the LHBS to buy freaking corn sugar. Would table sugar work as well?? I have a calculator that lists both for priming.

Sorry about the headline, I'm probably being paranoid... I have a Belgian String Ale that was in primary for 2 weeks and has been in secondary for another 3. The SG is steady (I forget where but I believe it was 1.016). I added Gelatin to it a few days ago after I cold-crashed it. Did I...

Okay, I've seen all kindsa people on here talk about "short-term" beers- Beer that's out of primary in 3-5 weeks, in the keg for a coupla days and bam! you're drinking it. I've heard other people say that for SOME beers, older is better (at least until about the two-year mark or maybe a skosh...

Okay, I brewed my Belgium strong three weeks ago tomorrow. I am a lazy bastard and instead of making a starter, I just used two smack packs. My beer closet stays about 66 degrees and the yeasts kept it around 70 for the first 10 days, then it cooled, then the airlock stopped bubbling last...

So after a rasp. wheat (turned out okay but not great) and a Kolsch (still carbing up, but tasted great at bottleing) I thought I'd try a high-gravity beer. I brewed a Belgian heavy ale yesterday (1.088 starting gravity) . I am too lazy to make a starter, so I just added two smack packs of...

Hello from darkest Utah, I just joined the forum and I just put my second batch in the plastic fermenter (Kolsch for SWMBO). My first try was a Raspberry Wheat (again, for SWMBO -I want her to like the new and potentially expensive hobby before I start investing in lagering freezers and...

I'm brewing my second batch ever (first post to this forum, too!) and I was so enthusiastic in getting my cooled wort into the plastic fermenter, I just dumped the whole damn thing into the bucket, trub and all. That was about 5PM last night. This morning I was thinking back over my brew...