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Hey all, I'm brewing my 3rd batch today and I've come across something in this month's BYO magazine that confused me a little bit. In the article "On The Boil", on page 55 he mentions that "Unless [Irish Moss] is strained, much of the coagulated proteins, break material and Irish moss...

Cool! Thanks for the help all! I have a feeling this one is gonna come out great!

Hey all! I just racked my second brew ever to secondary tonight. Man did it taste good too! I couldn't stop drinking the sample I took. Can't wait for it all to be done. Anyways, my whole schedule got screwed up this week. I had to wait for some bottles to come in to bottle my first...

Is there any way to see if the beer is carbonating in the bottle with out cracking one open? I'm just afraid all the yeast might have died off 'cause I let it sit in the secondary for an extra week (total of 3 weeks in secondary). Could that harm it in any way?

I use OneStep. I fill the carboy up with 2 or 3 gals. of water with 2 or 3 Tbl Spoons of OneStep and then lay it on it's side. Every minute or so, I'll rotate the carboy till it's all good. Then, I'll poor some into the sink to sanitize my kettle lid, strainer, and anything I need to keep clean...

Hey all! Just bottled my first beer ever tonight! :ban: It tasted alright! It's SG was 1.041 and it's FG was 1.010. Does that sound right? It's a brown ale (Fat Tire clone). Anyways, the question I have is, does the flavor change after it's been bottled? When I tasted it tonight, it had...

I hope mine don't do that. I just got done using OneStep for 'em.

Hey all! I'm racking my first batch to bottles tonight and I never thought about it, but should I sanitize my bottle caps as well? I always hear to sanitize anything the beer touches but I would have never thought to sanitize the bottle caps till I sat there staring at them and the...

Alrighty. I'll relax about it but I don't have any home brew to drink so a micro-brew will have to do. Thanks for your help everyone!

I would have never thought about it being bubbles. They looked small, but solid. But I guess a group of tiny bubbles could appear to be solid. Hopefully it all tastes fine in the end! Sorry for the double post! Does anyone know what yeast looks like in a fermenter?

Hey all! I'm about to bottle my first brew this week and when I went to check on it in the fridge I found little white things floating on the top. I sterilized everything that it touched the best I could. It's had an airlock on it the whole time. This just formed sometime this week. I just...

Alrighty, sounds good! After reading my posts over again, I really need to get a grip on my typing. LoL I didn't realize I was typing that poorly.

Now I'm wishing I would have tasted it! Thanks for the help and advice! I'll feel much more comfortable on the next batch. Lessons I Learned: o Take Gravity readings during transfers o Don't rack to secondary till done fermenting in primary o Sediment good o No krausen can be alright so...

So, if I understand this right, the beer should be done fermenting before I rack to my secondary? I only thought you took an SG when you first transfer the wort to the primary, and then take the FG right before you rack to bottles (well, 3 times on 3 days) to ensure it's done fermenting...

I did take a gravity reading when I put it into the primary. The SG was 1.041. I did let it set in the primary for 7 days. Sorry for the typo above. I brewed last Sunday and racked this Sunday. I was hopping the ring was the residual from the krausen collapsing. I'm kicking my self in the...

Thanks all! I added the location like ya suggested. Good thinking! As for the general knowledge stuff. I'm almost as book smart as it comes with this stuff, just no experience. LoL So I'll be asking tons of questions.

Hey all! I just racked my first brew to my secondary fermenter yesterday and I was a bit worried when I popped open the lid to my primary. There wasn't any krausen at the top. None. The hops stuck to the sides and I don't recall seeing anything that resembled mold. I'm just kind of shocked...

Hey all! Just brewed my first batch ever last weekend. Racked it to the secondary this Sunday. Looking forward to any and all future conversations! Cheers! Lou