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My last Oktoberfest of the year This was a good year

Making a Dunkelweizen using malt extract and a grain bag. White labs hefeweizen ale yeast. Finished it at 10p and went to sleep. Checked it at 6am and the top of the CO2 vent had popped off so I replaced it. Got home from work and the whole top had blown off of the bucket. What happened?

I am making a raspberry wheat. First time to make this recipe. Basic brew part extract part grain. Time to transfer to secondary and add the fruit. When I popped the lid on the primary there was a thick bubbly head. Smelled like bread. Is this normal?

It's bottled a dry stout. I had started a Heineken clone and forgot my secondary was occupied with that when I made my dry stout. Revy advised me not to worry that the stout would be fine if not better for sitting on the yeast cake longer. Besides its a stout. It's black. Not like it needs...

Wo days ago I put a Canadian ale in my glass carboy secondary. I got a gift card to my brew store and in my excitement brewed an Irish stout tonight. Usually I sit in primary a week transfer to secondary for two weeks then sit in bottles for three weeks. I have read here how a log of people...

Does anyone have a Beamish Irish Stout clone recipe? I really like this beer and cannot find a recipe. Also cannot get Beamish in TX for some weird reason. Could get it in Arkansas but not TX...weird thank you for any help you could provide.

Moving into secondary the instructions told me to crush the remaining hop pellets and add to the bottom of the secondary as I fill. Are the hops going to settle or am I going to have to skim the top when I bottle?

think my trippel is either trying to carbonate itself or it is still fermenting or both(same thing?)? Day 11 in the secondary carboy and I am still getting a lot of bubbly activity

I am making a Belgium trippel ale recipe. after the move to secondary carboy, there is some serious bubbling action going on. this is day two in secondary and it looks like a lot of activity is still being kicked up. is this normal and because of the high amount of sugar in the recipe that got...

my first batch (an amber ale kit) was successful and tasty. My second batch (a darker higher alcohol content than first batch) tasted even better. My third batch (a quick version of an octoberfest) is in secondary and looks great. Stepped it up and broke off of kits for the first time. Used a...

my 3-yr old distracted me while racking from primary and a bit of the yeast sediment went into secondary... am I ok? hoping that it will settle and I can be more careful about the sediment while bottling... but a little bit of tiny grain (guessing it's grain or yeasties or whatnot)can be seen...

Howdy folks Houston TX newbie that loves beer and is just getting into home brew my wife bought me a two stage home brew starter kit and I have successfully made one batch of amber ale and it was delicious currently on my second batch of slightly darker ale I need a lot of help for my...

My first brew was an amber wheat. Very easy and came out tasty. My second venture is a little higher on the alcohol scale. I am makind a Helles doppelbock (abita andygator) if any of you are familiar. My local crew told me to follow the same instructions. Primary 4 days- secondary 2 weeks and...