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Had my first infection/failure (see Chocolate Stout tastes of vinegar). Likely culprit Acetic Acid Bacteria most likely from a fruit fly. So how do you guys brew in the summer time and keep unwanted boogers out of your beer? In our area fruit flies & gnats are common from late April until...

Had a Midwest oatmeal stout kit (5 gallon). Thought I would chocolate it up a bit. Added 6 oz of cocoa powder to boil, then added 6 oz cocoa in about a quart of bourbon to fermenter. Left in primary for 4 weeks at 68 degrees. Looked fine bottled as normal. Its been in the bottle 3 weeks so...

Brewed a Midwest Oatmeal Stout kit last weekend and wanted to add chocolate to the profile. So I added about 2 oz of powdered cocoa to the boil. At flame out I added 8 oz of cocoa powder mixed into about 10 oz of 80 proof whisky. This morning it occurred to me that I had just jump started the...

Have an Alaskan Amber (ale) clone in the fermenter (day 14). Popped the top to check gravity and got a strong fruity smell. ??? I am used to yeasty smells, malt, beer, hops but not fruit from an straight Amber ale. Temp on day 2 of fermentation hit 71.2' so I put the fermenter into a...

Ok I have been racking my brain and asking a bunch of questions on my poor carbing issues. Been using the northern brewer priming calculator. Today I bottled my ale kit that came with my fermentor. It had 5 oz of corn sugar for priming. When I checked it against the norther brewer priming...

Ok so two batches in a row, carbonation has taken 2-3 weeks and was still weak. Used the midwest brewing priming calculator and used close to a cup of corn sugar to prime both 5 gallon batches of hefe. It was suggested that I didn't have enough active yeast after racking to secondary to...

Read the sticky posts but still have a question. Where is a legit place to find clone recipes? I asked on a FB home brew group and got a lot of smarta$$ answers "google". I searched for a clone recipe and got 5 different recipes. Is there any way to know who is legit and who is mixing...

Made a simple hefe recipe from a member on here. Tasted great but took a while to carb. Initially it had a great hefe flavor with pronounced notes of banana. As time has passed (bottled 7 weeks now) the carbonation has increased to an acceptable level but the banana notes have almost...

Experimental Dunkel recipe. 3 Lbs of Briess Barvarian Wheat DME 2 Lbs of Rahr White Wheat Malt (cracked) 1 Lb Weyerman Dark Wheat Malt (Cracked) ½ Lb Weyerman Chocolate Wheat Malt (Cracked) 1 Oz Hallertau Hops for 60 minute boil Sg 1.049 FG 1.016 Used the priming calculator for a...

Had a Back Porch Pale Ale kit that came with my fermentor that I needed to use up. Also had some Chocolate Wheat Malt (cracked) left over from when I goofed a recipe and over ordered. What style of beer would you call this? 1.5 Lbs Weyermann Chocolate Wheat Malt .5 LbsLbs Front Porch Ale...

I hesitate to post this question since it will probably go down hill but here goes ....:D Got a simple hefe bottled up. Put a 12 pack in the fridge after 2 weeks in the bottle at 70-75 degrees. Flavor is great, but the carbonation is a little low. And it gives you the beer farts...

Have a hefe in the tank. Started fermenting at ambient temp of 64 beer temp got up to 68 for a week then dropped to 64 over a couple days. Cold snap has the basement chilly. Beer temp has dropped to 55. (day 14 of primary) Warm up scheduled this week and basement temps will probably climb...

Goofed up my online order and here is what I have. 3lbs DME wheat 2 lbs white wheat malt (cracked) 1lb dark wheat malt (cracked) 2lbs chocolate wheat malt (cracked) What can I make with this? What do I need to order to use up the rest of these cracked grains? I was thinking of...

Still in the beginning stages so keep it simple please. (kits, extracts, DME, and some BIAB cracked grains.....NO all grain recipes as Im not set up for it and don't plan on expanding) Got a hefe in the fermenter (love hefes) Love chocolaty porters with low hops, malt forward with...

Guess I goofed my order but here is what I have for a Hefe. 3 lbs Wheat DME 2 Lbs Rahr White Wheat malt cracked 1 Lbs Weyerman Dark wheat malt cracked 2 Lbs Weyermann chocolate wheat malt cracked 1 oz hallertau hops Danstar Munich dry wheat beer yeast. Since I over ordered the...

Looks like I will finally have a brew day coming up !!! Basement is a steady 64 degrees. I'm planning on 2 wheat beers, a crystal and a dunkel. My concern is the fermenting temp profile. 1. What is optimal for a rich tasting wheat beer with clove and banana hints? 2. Will I be...

Im a bit confused..... Our water is crap. One day it tastes like mud, the next iron, the next it smells like the public pool so I was going to buy gallon jugs of spring water. 1. Will store bought spring water be the best choice for brewing. ( choices are distilled, spring, or "drinking...

Not sure how to phrase this but here goes. I don't like bitter super hoppy beer. But I like a variety of beer styles as long as they aren't too hoppy. Can I jack with the boil times or put less hops in early and go heavier late in the boil to control the level of bitterness ? ex...

Got my starter kit and ingredients to make 3 batches of beer ! Then I realized... I forgot to order priming sugar. :-( What are the Pros and Cons of different types of priming sugars ? Can you use regular cane sugar? Or does it have to be corn sugar? What about brown sugar for a...

I just figured out how to get the Search Function to work on the recipe section of the forum.... Hooooo boy am I in trouble now ! Got a simple Hefe recipe on order. The ale recipe that comes with the kit And I am looking for a chocolate porter recipe that is on the malty sweet side...