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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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