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I just bottled a fruit ale (mcmenamins ruby clone) and it's got a weird rubber band-aid phenol, almost like the way the rubber airlock gasket smells.. Since I use starsan is it possible the acid caused this off flavor to leach out into my beer? Possible from the tubing I use to transfer primary...

So I pitched a pale ale over the yeast cake of my last pale ale right after bottling it. initial wort temp was 70 but then i added about a gallon of cold water which brought it down to 68ish (this was around 11pm-midnight) this morning around 10 am I looked and the temp sticker was at 72...

So I have a 5gal batch of mead that's been sitting for well over 6 months (I'd have to look at my old posts to see exact age) It's basically 12 lbs honey and essential oils were added during fermentation (fermentation was slow due to the oils) Oils used were: Cinnamon 20 drops Wild orange 10...

So I just racked on top of 2lbs of frozen local blueberries and cranberries in an attempt to leave them in secondary for a few months then bottle. But I didn't realize I should have smashed them. I added them all whole. Now the cranberries are floating lol, there's only an inch or 2...

Found this at trader joes, Thinking of adding a bottle of it to an oatmeal stout once i get it to secondary Anyone used this before?

So every time I drink one of my bombers I rinse it out with hot tap water a few times shaking it out and making sure no beer or yeast is left behind. Then I spray a bunch of starsan inside and shake the bottle around to coat the entire inside and let the bottles sit in a cabinet with the...

so I used 2 mason jars to harvest trub for my next batch when i took my last batch to secondary. planning to brew next batch today (been 4 days in the fridge) but my first mason jar I forgot to spray down with starsan, the day before i had rinsed it off with hot tap water and stuck in in a...

I have a pound of local organic cranberries I might want to add to my essential oil mead that has cinnamon orange and clove How do you add these? Boil for a min or two or soak in starsan? Or just add them As is? Or is it better to freeze them first? Also adding them to secondary is the...

So I've had my first batch of mead ferming for about 10 days now and gravity has only dropped .15 (from 1.100 to 1.085ish) Recipe: 13.5 lbs honey from LHBS 4 Gallons water (3 spring, 1 distilled) 1 capsule servomyces at pitch and 1 capsule at the 24 hour mark 2 smack packs of Wyeast sweet mead...

I started my first batch of mead tonight and used essential oils in the primary which I hope didn't screw it up. My wife sells doTERRA oils and I figured cinnamon, wild orange and clove would go well in a wintertime mead. I used 20 drops of cinnamon, 10 of wild orange and 5 of clove. Usually...

can I use this? I ran low on dextrose (1/3 cup left) so can I use 2/3 cup of this coconut palm sugar mixed with the dextrose? http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Tree-Organic-Coconut-Blonde/dp/B005TY2K3C/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1377038031&sr=8-8&keywords=coconut+palm+sugar

it did sorta put some very fine scratch marks around that top ring where the trub was i was trying to scrub away. did i totally ruin the carboy? Can I just use it for wild ales now and be good to go?

alright was up til 2am lastnight getting this beer done and bottling my last batch. I did a 30min @ 155 steep of: 0.5lbs carapils 0.5lbs flaked oats 0.5lbs 2 row 0.5lbs munich 10lbs amber liquid extract @ 10min 3lbs dextrose @10min 24oz black cherry concentrate @10min 0.25oz...

planning on a 100% brett C. imperial beer. cant seem to find the % tolerance of this strain anywhere EDIT: looks like Wyeast version is 12%.. im sure the White Labs is similar.

So my first attempt is waiting to be bottled, greatly underpitched it initially and it developed a crazy pineapple juice flavor. I love the flavor so much I'm going to be trying an imperial version .5LB of 2-row pale malt .5LB of CaraPils malt .5LB of flaked oats .5LB Munich malt. 10LB light...

ay yay yay! :ban: I pitched my Belgian Dark Strong at 75 degrees, the next few days we had a little heat wave, I keep my brews in a small cool closet. but during those days i noticed the ambient temp in the closet got to 72, then 74, then i think i remember seeing 76 at one point. 4 days...

Making an imperial Brett C. Beer I got 10lbs of light LME and a 3lb bag of dextrose. Should I add all the dextrose? Half pound of; 2 row, flaked oats, cara pils, and munich 1oz of magnum @ 60min Servomyces And slurry from my existing mo betta bretta clone sitting waiting to be bottled. Also...

in my 6gal brew bucket i did a 5 gal batch of belgian dark strong. pitched a 1 quart starter from 2 wyeast smack packs of the belgian strong yeast 1388 8 hours later the S type airlock had a bunch of crud inside, so i took it off and rinsed it out, came back and foam was starting to ooze...

didnt know if it was going to turn out since i massively underpitched my 5gal batch. just took a grav sample and went from OG of 1.074 (extract brew so may be off) to 1.015 after 4 weeks flavor is a MASSIVE pineapple slap you in the face flavor. reminds me of the Dole Pineapple Banana...

10lbs light LME 0.5lbs belgian special b 0.5lbs belgian biscuit 0.5lbs crystal 40L 2oz light roast barley 1lb dark belgian candi sugar 1.75oz magnum hops @ 60min 1oz saaz hops @ 15min 2 packs of wyeast 1388 belgian strong yeast in a quart starter with 1 capsule servomyces for 48 hours (long...