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I had a couple packs of Safbrew S-33 yeast in my fridge that expired last summer. I decided I'd try using that in my Peach ale this past Friday. While hyrdrating the first pack, it didn't get all frothy like most do. Being a little worried, I added the second pack into the cup with it. After...

I have some general questions primarily around the aging process. Bulk vs bottle aging: There has been some other threads on this and it sounds like bulk aging may be preferable especially for reds as any sediment dropping out in bulk won't be in the bottle. Regardless of which is "better", are...

Having visited Thunderhead Brewing in Kearney, NE last summer, and very much liking the Golden Frau Honey Wheat beer, I decided this would be something I would like to try to make. I started with the Northern Brewer American Wheat extract kit. I did a late extract addition (1/3), but cut both...

Are there any charts or reference guides available which show which hop combinations works well together for various beer styles and perhaps just as importantly, which do NOT work well together? I'm planning on brewing up some sort of a pale ale to use up some ingredients I have laying around...

finally some time to relax after completing a bunch of brewing activities. 1. Brewed a Northern Brewer Extra Pale Ale 2. Tertiary'd my Peach wheat; a LOT of crud in the secondary from the peach puree. 3. Got a Cabernet Sauvignon wine batch started 4. bottled a 3-gal New Millenium sparkling wine

Inspired by Schlenkerla's thread, I finally got around to brewing my own tonight. I more or less stuck with his recipe except I used less grain and a little more extract. I also added some Malto Dextrin. Ingredient list: 3.3# LME (Light, unhopped) 2# DME (Light) Grains: 1# Pale Ale Malt...

This all started with my BB Dunkelweizen having a very slow start to fermentation. See my sticky thread post here Anyway, this thing is still not done! I brewed this beer on 10/07/2008 (OG=1.054). As I normally give my beers around 3 weeks in primary, last week on 10/28 I was going to try to...

Has anyone brewed up one of these kits yet? I scored myself one of these at my LHBS today. Just brewed up an IPA (Midwest Supplies Octane IPA) a week ago, but I couldn't resist (another moment of weakness :o). I'm guessing it'll be at least a week (maybe more) before I can brew this one as I...

I was a little worried about my Brewers Best Bold Series Belgian Tripel. According the instructions, the FG should be around 1.013 - 1.018. On 9/12 (23 days in primary), planning to bottle that evening, I checked the gravity and it was still 1.023. That scared me off and I decided to wait...

Is it common to have differences in the densities of corn sugar from different sources -- perhaps relating to how fine it's ground? The reason I ask is that everyone says to use 3/4 cup or 5oz. for priming a 5 gallon batch. However, 3/4 cup of the corn sugar from my LHBS only weighs in at...