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I am brewing my second batch. It is a AHS kolsch. I racked to secondary yesterday. When I looked at it tonight there were lots of white spots on the surface of the brew. Should I be worried?i was very sanitary with everything.

I am brewing AHS kolsch extract kit. I added 1% alcohol boost. OG was 1.058. It has been in primary for five days. Really took off after about 12 hours. I took a gravity reading today and it was 1.018(kit says final should be 1.014). It's not bubbling much any more, maybe one bubble every 20...

My next extract kit is a kolsch from austin home brew. It's my second ever batch. I was thinking about putting something in the secondary for a nice spring flavor. Anyone one have any ideas? Or should I just leave it the way it is. I have never had a flavored kolsch so I'm not sure which way I...

This might be a really dumb question but I need some help. My co2 tank(5#) a Has been on for a week at 8 pounds. I have one home brew and one comercial on tap. I force carved the home brew at 30 psi for ten minutes. The tank is in the kegerator at 34 degrees. The gauge is reading in the red. I...

Does anyone know how long to leave a keg carbonating using the tasty brew calculator. I have an iPa and the calculator recommends 4.9 psi but does not say how long to leave it. Any ideas?

I have another question about my first brewing/kegging experience. I think I over carved. hBS owner said I could take gas off, shake beer and then vent keg. He said continue to do this until I no longer have any co2 coming out when I vent. So I started this process, shook keg, vented, shook keg...

So here's my scenario. I took the advice of my LHBS owner and burst carved (30psi for ten minutes while rocking back and forth) on Monday night. I bled the keg and then let is sit at 8 psi overnight. Beer was pouring really foamy and was cloudy. I let it sit for another 24 hours and had same...

I force carved my first keg tonight. First poor was all foam. (I never burped the keg and turned my pressure down to 10psi) I then bleed the keg and the beer was much less foamy but now it is poring really really slow. Any ideas. Thanks in advance

Just force carved my first brew. Do I need to bleed the keg before I put my serving pressure on it?

I'm getting ready to keg my first batch. I have a three keg system as u can see from the pic. My question is, can I carbonate my keg using one of my three lines off the manifold or should I take the main line out for carbing and then reconnect and hook keg up to one of the three lines?

Primary for 10 days and its been in the secondary for 20 days. I just finished putting my kegerator together. If I put secondary in the kegerator to cold crash, how long can I leave it in their. I ask because I was going to put it in tomorrow and might not be able to keg it till later in the...

I am getting ready to keg my first batch and I have a couple of questions. Should I rack from my secondary into my bottling bucket and then to the keg or just to the keg straight from the secondary? Second question is in regards to force carbing. I have heard I should put 30/40 psi on it and let...

Anyone have an extract recipe for Baxter Brewing co. Phantom punch winter stout?

11 days in the secondary and I still have yeast clumps floating up and down. It was in the primary for ten days. Is this normal? It seems to be clearing a little but some yeast clumps are just kind of suspended. Any thoughts?

Is it normal to have any condensation inside my glass carboy during secondary fermentation?

Racked into secondary two days ago. Checked it this evening. Seemed like a lot of trub in the bottom and had some white things floating in it. Is this normal?

Just racked my first batch into the secondary. Hydrometer reading tells me it's finished with an abv of 5.75. It's a BB iPa. I am happy with that. Is there a way in future brews to elevate the abv in an extract kit that says around 6. Basically what I'm looking for is to spend aroun $45-$50 and...

My first batch(brewers best iPa) has been in the primary for 9 days. I was going to rack to a secondary but based on all of the feedback on this site, I'm going to leave it in the primary until I keg. That being said, I have an extra car boy so I'm looking for suggestions on a good extract...

My first batch has been in the primary for 6 days and the airlock has slowed to a bubble every 30'seconds or so. I was thinking of taking a gravity reading. Should I do so? And is so if I draw some beer out with a turkey Baster and take a reading, should I poor the beer back in fermenter? Drink...

So I boiled my first batch. Brewers best extract iPa. Put it in the primary at 6pm last Saturday. Bubbler was working hard from Sunday night until yesterday(one bubble per second). Today I'm seeing one bubble about every 15 seconds. When should I rack into secondary? Thanks in advance