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My Stout is 3 weeks old and im starting to notice a few little white patches floating on the top. It started as one and now I noticed a second smaller one this morning. It smells pretty good but there is still something funky in the smell. Would it be wise to rack to the keg and age it in there...

My american stout is giving me a lot of questions. I went through a period where it had an awful smell, i determined that was the smells of fermentation and was proved right, because now it smells amazing. But yesterday I woke up and saw this little odd shaped white patch floating on the top of...

I am about to hook two kegs up to one tank, do i need to double my serving pressure to say 16 psi? or will the 8-10 psi do fine for both?

So, my American stout is about 2 weeks into fermentation. The other day i went to make a small initial addition of 1 oz coffee beans, 1 oz, cacao nibs, and a vanilla bean. When i took the rubber stopper out of the carboy, i picked up an odd almost rubbery or plastic smell. The stopper i was...

I am eager to keg two batches that I currently have fermenting. I have all of the stuff (i think) i need. This is a multi-part question: 1. Is kegging the beer as simple as racking from carboy to keg on top of my priming sugar solution? Should i transfer from carboy, to bucket, and then to keg...

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So Last night I brewed my 3rd batch, it is an American stout. The smell was great, lots of coffee and chocolate. I have 2 questions: Heres the hop schedule: Cluster hops 1 oz- 60 min fuggle hops 1 oz- 10 min willamette hops 1 oz- 2 min 1. Is there anything I can do, sort of like dry...

Being only a third time brewer, and feeling ambitious and experimental i decided to step away from kit directions and experiment. anyone have experience with the following combo? any opinions on how this will taste? 2 oz Columbus: 60 min (bittering) 2 oz columbus: 15 min 2 oz cascade...

I am Currently working on a double IPA with a predicted abv between 8%-9%..I am leaving it in one vessel. I was wondering if anyone thought 4 weeks in primary, then adding my dry hops and leaving for one more week before bottling, for a total of 5 weeks, would be enough time for the beer to be...

My fridge holds a damn near constant and consistent temp at whatever i set it at. I am thinking about cold crashing my double IPA and this would be my first time trying this technique. I heard there are things that can go wrong. What temp and how many days and how long before bottling should i...

i received a Northern Brewer Irish Red Ale kit for christmas and JUST got around to brewing it about a month and a half ago. This attempt has sparked a ton of interest and I have been researching and getting new recipes like crazy. I'm already learning so much and cannot wait to try my latest...