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I did my first batch of beer from a Best Brewer's American Pale Ale kit two months ago. Steeped my grains at 100 degrees for twenty minutes, then rocketed up to 185 for twenty minutes, cooled it down and added my extract. Added both cans, then I forgot to stir it in to avoid carmelization, so...

SG is anybody's guess, I forgot to take it when I brewed, but the recipe says it should be 1.055 and I only got it down to 1.018, recipe says it should be 1.012....not sure if this is enough to make a difference or not

Could this be the gelatin floating about collecting garbage? I thought it would sink to the bottom.

Adding pictures below. I should also note that my beer never got down to its final gravity, it is still very sweet, not sure if this makes a difference in its chances of being infected. Thanks for the reply! http://prod.campuscruiser.com/cruiser/widener/naustin/100_0873.JPG...

I went mucking in my beer after 2 weeks in the secondary and added gelatin two days ago because I wanted to bottle it this weekend....probably got a little oxygen stirred up when I did it because it now looks like somebody hocked lugies into my brew, big long nastly looking strands hanging from...

ok, thanks for the replies. I'll leave it alone for a couple of weeks and try it then, and then bottle it up and try it a few weeks from that and see what happens.

Ok, so I just brewed up a partial grain extract kit, a BB american pale ale, and I think I moved it to the secondary too quickly - SG was 1.054 and FG is 1.02, directions said to wait until 1.015 but I missed that part, also lost about 3/4 a gallon due to 2 x Daschunds knocking over my...