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Hi! I'm making a porter with an OG reading of 1.054 and a FG of 1.020 (after 2 weeks), which would give me 3.57% alcohol content. I was thinking that it should be a little higher so I was advised to add more yeast (brittish ale yeast) and try to get it to ferment more. I also forgot to add cacoa...

Hi! So i made my first GF beer and it is in the carboy ready to be bottled tomorrow. I'm a little concerned it may be bad though, for 2 reasons: (1) hardly any fermentation looked like it was going on. My beers normally fuzz up and bubble and have a lot of activity, but the GF barely had a...

So, I'm pretty sure i may have screwed up a batch of beer! I forgot to strain the hops out of the wort before i put it in the bucket to ferment. I then added some citra hops after about a week for "dry hopping" (never done that before, so not sure i did it correctly). Anyways, i'm hoping to...

I forgot to put my freshops in the refrigerator or freezer after i purchased them 6-7 months ago. They have been sitting in a dry bucket in their original airtight package in my closet. Can I still use these or will it be funky? (They smell ok) :)

So I think i made 2 major mistakes and need to know if I should just dump out the beer in the carboy and start over :( 1) I forgot to take the yeast out of the fridge until right before I added it to the carboy so it was cold. 2) I added the yeast to wort that was at 60 degrees F instead...

Quick question. I need to bottle tomorrow. Can i clean/rinse the bathtub, let bleach water sit in it for an hour drain and refill with more bleach water and then sanitize bottles? I was also planning to sanitize with iodine solution tomorrow before bottling as a final precaution. I read on the...