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Hi guys. I decided to brew a batch a beer 4 hours before i had to go to work yesterday so i was rushing through my entire process. Long story short, every thing went great...until i forgot to Change my fermentation chamber temp controller setting from 38* (the temp i use to keep beers in...

Title pretty much says it all. I think i did a pretty decent job letting the trub flocc to the bottom in my one gallon jug. After i racked some yeast over into 4 mason jars, i refridgerated them over night. I came down to check on them And this is what i see in my jar. So my 2 questions are...

Hey how's it going everyone. My question is about keeping my fermentation from dropping my stout's gravity too low. I started out with an OG of 1.094 and am looking for it to end just slightly lower than it currently is. I just took my first gravity reading and it is at 1.032 after 3 days. The...

Hey guys and gals. I am just about all set to get my starter going for my first crack at an American wheat beer. It's a 5 gallon batch and I will probably infuse half of it with raspberry during secondary. I will post my recipe here and while I welcome any possible critiques or twists on the...

Hey guys i have family on the MA/NH border and and am going to be going there next weekend. As you know VT is not too far away and i am wondering if any of you can maybe give me an idea of how far north id have to drive into vermont to find a store where i could purchase some to take home. Any...

Hi guys. I gabe away a couple homebrews recently to a friend. As my bottle supply is still pretty low i asked him to keep the bottles for me after he drank em. And to rinse them out of course after finishing off a bottle. Well he went one for two. He kept the bottles but did not rinse them...

Hey guys and gals. I've brewed a few batches of beer so far and am still going strong loving every new batch and gaining experience and knowledge as I get my reps in. I've decided I want to try and get some small batches of mead going since I've always found mead interesting. Anyway I've read...

Hey guys I find myself wondering as I am about to make my yeast starter this morning of WLP090 San Diego super yeast for a Citra and Cascade ale recipe im going to give a try. I see on the pkg that it is best before March 14 2013 which is good, but when was it packaged? On the Wyeast packages...

Hey guys looking to use the gift cards I received over the holidays and was thinking maybe a refractometer would be a nice addition to the arsenal. I by no means have all the brewing equipment one needs to brew an outstanding beer but my product has been coming out OK so far and steadily...

Ey guys and gals. Happy new year to everyone. It's getting cold in my basement and I do not have any heat control down there. I have been looking for a way to increase my fermentation temps if I feel like brewing an ale or two through the winter. I have a chest freezer and Johnson temp...

Ey guys just picked up a nice 750ml of Ommegangs 3 philosophers quadrupel and I wanted to hold onto it for a while. When I bought it it was in the refridgerated part of the beer section. any way my question is how should I store it at home if I want to keep it for an extended period of time...

Ey guys I brewed a galaxy SMaSH ale earlier today. I recently purchased the bayou classic SQ14 propane burner and this was my 2nd time using it. The first time I did not use it to its potential and only cut my total brewing time by about 15 minutes compared to using my indoor stove. But today I...

Ok so I just learned first hand to always take your blow off tube out of your water/starsan solution BEFORE you open up your spigot and rack into your secondary fermenter! I just finished doing my first dryhop and as i was racking my beer into my carboy with the fresh hops from my HDPE 6.5...

Hi all a while back i brewed my 2nd AG batch of Belgian Golden strong. It came out to a final Gravity of 1.004 giving me an ABV of 9.3% anyway after about a 3 1/2 week primary I was unable to bottle due to numerous reasons so i decided to get it off the trub and rack over to my Glass carboy...

So I racked my BGS over to my glass carboy a few days ago for secondary fermentation. But after vigorous scrubbing with soap and water.And A starsan bath. the smell of the trub is still distinct inside my fermenter. I've now decided to go with a mild bleach solution to see if it will get the...

Racked my BGS over to my secondary glass carboy after 22 days in the primary and after a couple of days I'm seeing some weird activity from the leftover yeast that made it to my secondary. I attached a pic showing what I believe to be some small clumps of yeast still alive and floating in my...

Hey guys and gals just searching through the forums and I had this question I saw that no one had asked this..or at least not in these exact words. :mug: Anyway I was wondering if I could be recommended some "Must Read" beer literature. Anything about the genre will be great. History, recipes...

So i just came home after leaving my baby unattended for approximately 8 hrs. And i came home to a nasty surprise. Fermentation has been extremely active since i first saw it at around 12pm today. I pitched the yeast at around 10pm saturday evening. Anyways i now know a blowoff tube should...

Hey all. just finished my 2nd ever batch of AG. Its a wannabe sierra nevada pale ale. My numbers were a little off but all in all i hope a success. Was hoping for an OG of 1.056 but came up with a measured gravity of 1.052. Anyway my main question to you is about whether my MLT is doing its...

Hello all. I just finished my 1st ever AG batch of brew. I had a few moments where i felt like i was in over my head but i feel all in all everything came together pretty smoothly. Anyway I just downloaded Beersmith2 and with the particular recipe i used i think my efficiency may be slightly...