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Whoops. I just got done brewing a 100% Brett stout, and it turned out fantastic. Then I brewed a chocolate stout with US-05, and it took after my Brett stout and formed a pellicle of its own. Crap. It tastes thin and watery with very little of the stout characteristics I was going for...

So I made this mead, and it is really floccin' good. I call it a rhodomelomel: it's a deep purple rose/blueberry semi-sweet mead. Unfortunately, its maker is an idiot. I decided I wanted blueberries and rose petals in my mead. So, I made a mead, waited two weeks, then shoved some...

I've never been a fan of IPAs in general, but now that I'm getting into homebrewing, I'd like to figure out exactly what I don't like about them. The reason is that I've actually had a couple IPAs and IIPAs that I didn't mind so much, but others actually make me feel sick if I drink too much...

I brewed a Belgian dubbel back in August (for transparency's sake, it was this one). I bottled it after about a month, so it's been sitting in bottles for well over a month. Completely flat. Completely cloudy, and won't settle out after weeks in the fridge. Tastes kinda gross (hard to...

I'm hoping to figure out what might have gone wrong with this milk stout. The kicker is, I didn't brew it. My buddy did. So I don't exactly know how it was brewed, except that it was brewed with an extract kit with steeping grains. I know that infections can turn a brew sour. I exchanged...

I decided on Saturday I wanted to brew an imperial stout. Probably going to age it on some bourbon and oak. I had a yeast cake of US-04 ready to go, and I figured that ought to be fine for my purposes. It's a big beer (1.095), it needs a lot of yeast. I've got no air conditioning at my...

I've got a spare carboy sitting around. One thing I'd like to do with it is brew something big, like a barleywine, tripel, RIS, or a wee heavy - something that might benefit from a bit of aging - and then forget about it for a few months while I continue to brew sessions with my regular...

*Edit*: Solved. I made a dummy newbie mistake. Hooray, learning! So I've done four partial mashes so far, according to DeathBrewer's Easy Partial Mash instructions, and I just do not understand mash temperatures. I understand that I ought to heat the water to higher than the desired mash...

I was thinking about hops the other day, and I was curious what compounds impart the many flavors we can get from our hops. I came across this nice convenient list: http://realbeer.com/hops/FAQ.html#aroma I looked up the structures to all of these compounds, using my (limited)...

I've put together a partial mash weizenbock recipe, taking notes from other recipes I've found. I put together the grains before picking up the extracts, and I'm not sure which combination of extracts will give me the best beer, so that's why I'm here! Grain bill: 3lbs white wheat 2lbs...

I'm having a bit of a struggle in my brewing setup, in that I have one primary and two secondary fermenters, I'd like to brew more than one beer at a time, but I can only control temperature for one fermenter at a time. I just don't have enough space in the apartment to even fit another...

Brew day was a bit of a mess on this last one. It's my first partial mash, and I intended to follow DeathBrewer's Easy Partial Mash method. Instead, I managed to make every newbie mistake I could manage. I mashed in 2 gallons, and got the temperature up to ~162 before adding the grains...

I swear I saw a recipe once - and I'm pretty sure it was on one of these forums - for some kinda amber or red ale that called for oak chips soaked in spiced rum. I didn't pay much attention at the time, since it wasn't the recipe I was looking for at the time, but I kept it in mind. And now...

I just transferred my kolsch to the secondary yesterday. I checked it today, and the top of it is covered in white spots, about 1/2 to 1 cm across. Unless this is some known phenomenon that is caused by my yeast, I assume that I've got mold growing on my beer. Are there any fungicides...

Newbie question - I've seen others ask similar questions, but nobody seems to have *quite* the same problem I've got. I just put my first homebrew in the fermentor last night, and today it's going nuts! I came home to find the lid had blown off with foam leaking out of it, and the airlock...