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About 5 or so batches ago, I stumbled across this little trick I thought I'd share. I started collecting a bit of leftover wort after transferring to my primary and fermenting in a side fermentor, which is a glass 1L milk bottle in my case. It's come in handy for so many reasons. Whether...

An issue I've increasingly noticed since I started all grain brews about 6 months ago is that the beer I now make ends up changing color over time as it bottle conditions, maybe picking up 3SRM or so as it darkens over the course of a few months. That part I can handle, but what I don't like...

I brewed the dubbel recipe from Brewing Classic Styles a few weeks back. All went well, but I noticed the Wyeast 3787 tended to form into larger clumps and float in solution. Most of it dropped out, but there were noticeable floaties when it came time to transfer. I didn't bother racking to...

I brewed a Cascade SMaSH on the weekend and through both a software glitch (my fault) and a mash problem (probably also my fault) I ended up with an OG of 1.040 instead of 1.060. My hop bill was intended for the much higher gravity (6.5oz Cascade, 60 IBU with a bunch of late-additions), so...

After royally screwing up the initial ferment (gory details here) I decided to leave it alone for a few weeks. It's been sitting in the primary undisturbed for 16 days, and I was thinking of bottling on Thursday. I took a sample tonight for an FG reading. No problems there, it fermented out...

So here's the situation. For my third batch, I wanted to move to liquid yeast. Not quite ready to do a starter yet, so I asked at the local homebrew shop if a Wyeast 1056 smack pack is good enough without a starter. They said yeah, so I brewed as normal and dropped it in. Except I used a Wyeast...