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TL;DR Your beer is fine do not add more yeast. Next time, make a starter, and your beer will taste a little better.

If you saw active fermentation and then it stopped, that probably means fermentation is complete. If there is food (sugar) for the yeast to eat, they will reproduce quickly until they run out of food. In theory, you only need 1 micro-organism to start a fermentation. If you had an active...

I'm brewing the same beer 3 times in a row and want to reuse the yeast from the first batch to make the second, since it's the same style beer and therefore I want the same kind of yeast. I sanitized a plastic solo cup and scooped up some yeast from the bottom of fermenter after primary...

Hey, we're brewing the same beer! We should probably compare notes. I'm actually using this recipe: http://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/glbc-christmas-ale-clone Converted to extract by my local homebrew store guy: 1lb US Caramel (crystal) Malt 40°L 1lb US (Breiss) Special Roast 50°L...

Sounds like a lot of you like BIAB, and no one like option #2. You've pointed out a few things that make option 1 or BIAB a lot easier, so I'm leaning away from option #2. It seems like the only thing it has going for it is the ability to step-mash. Does anyone have any experience step-mashing...

I'm looking to switch from extract to all-grain. I also need a new brew kettle. Here are a few things I think might work. Please share your thoughts from experience: 1) Buy a rubbermaid mash/lauter tun and a regular 10 gallon pot (no spigot, thermometer, or false bottom). Start by...

It definitely got worse. I tasted it when I transfered into the secondary and nothing stood out as being wrong. It's a three gallon all-grain amber ale. Pretty basic, it was my second all grain attempt. Not particularly high gravity, although I misplaced the recipe so I can't give specifics...

I waited a bit to bottle. It probably sat in the the primary a week and the secondary another 4-5 weeks. Just bottled it, but it tasted a little sour. I don't know how else to describe the taste, but there was something else there as well, kind of like vinager. Does anyone know what could...

I generally don't filter my beer other than to wirlpool the wort before transfering into the fermenter. With the last batch I got a little carried away, though, and siphoned a good bit of trub along with the wort, and it's now in the fermenting beer. Since I plan to carbonate in the bottle, I...