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I was thinking of trying an oatmeal stout, using lcasanova's double chocolate stout as a starting point. Besides dropping the chocolate, any other suggestions?

I made a starter yesterday, and it has some funk on top this morning. I was out of DME to make it so I used some extra runnings from a beer I was making. What do you think? Infected, or just some Krausen starting up?

So I transferred to the bottling bucket a few hours ago to prep for bottling, mixed in my corn sugar, and put on a lid and airlock to let it set for a while after moving it. I just checked on it and the airlock is bubbling. Is this normal for corn sugar addition, or has fermentation started...

Just wrapped up boiling my first big all-grain (19 pounds of grain) and dropped in my chiller. Came to check on it 15 minutes later, and see that the hose water is leaking into the wort at the hose clamp, noooo! Not really much to do except come here and vent :drunk: Here's hoping that the...

My first all-grain is in the fermenter now, and ready for yeast. Unfortunately I broke my hydrometer a few hours ago...would it be ok to let the wort sit overnight (15 hours) and get another tomorrow to take a SG reading before pitching? Am I better off pitching now?

I just started the Bel-Gin Strong kit from Brooklyn Brew Shop. The Juniper and Coriander are all together in a bag, with 2/3 addition of both at the start of boil, and the remainder at the end. I know I need to crush the Coriander, but do I crush the Juniper as well? I've got 60 minutes to...

Follow up to my previous thread - to recap, my IPA was below the target FG for the recipe (target was 1.014 and I was at 1.012) so I moved it to the secondary for the 5-7 day dry hop. The next day it started bubbling again and the gravity started dropping. It's now 11 days in secondary with a...

I was going to bottle my Pliny clone tonight after 7 days dry hopping, and I noticed activity inside of the carboy (bubbles coming up from the bottom, stirring up the hops, a little activity in the airlock). Is it ok to bottle, or should I let it keep going? My FG target was 1.014. It was...

I have a recipe that calls for 0.5 ounce of coriander...but I don't have a scale. What's an alternative to weighing this out?

Any common cause for this? Every brew I've made is coming out too sweet. To date I've done an IPA (the sweetness was kind of good), a Dubbel (way too sweet), a Stout and a Porter (stout is overpowering sweetness, porter is more bearable). I've had 2 hit their FG and OG, and the other 2 didn't...

I was making a starter last night and dropped the unsanitized white labs cap into the mix. I wanted to keep an eye out for it being infected...but don't know what to look for. It's 12 hours in and everything looks good so far, if it got infected what would I be seeing, and how long would it take...

My awesome SWMBO procured a bottle of Sam Adams Utopias for me. However since this is a special occasion sipper, how do you store it long term after it's been opened? Just the screw top? Recap? I'm afraid to open it until I know what to do with it after popping the top!

I ordered another primary fermenter from Midwest, and the lid does not have a rubber seal inside like me AHBS bucket. Is that normal, or do I need to go round up a lid seal at my local store? Sorry for the stupid question....but I'd rather ask now than post up in a month that latest brew was...

Brewed up a stout yesterday with a starter, I probably didn't need that but wanted to run through the process. I just checked on it, and the lid is bowing up and the top has wort on it which is pushing through the airlock. So my question is, do I pull of the airlock and let out the pressure...

...just went down the hatch! I chose a Pliny the Elder clone from AHS since it was on sale the night I ordered my kit. I thought it would be fun to try since I typically dislike extra hoppy beers and lean towards Belgian dubbels and strong dark ales. My assumption was if I messed up, I wouldn't...