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Bottle a beer a couple of days ago. Looked at the bottles and it seems most of them have some sort of solid/gellish material floating on top of the beer. Never seen anything like it. Possibly a result of contamination? What do y'all think? I do not think it is left hops of just stuff that is...

I have an IPA in a secondary its been in there for maybe 1 month. It was in the primary for a month also. I'm really busy can I leave it in the secondary for another month and be ok?

So I am moving houses. I have an IPA in a secondary. I am going to have to move it 10 miles in my car, Its going to get a pretty good shaking.. Any advice.. the move has to happen.. How long will it take for it all to settle back down..is this bad for my beer.

So I poured the priming sugar in after I poured the beer in the bottling bucket. I mixed it as well as I could with the fear oxygen in my mind. So I stirred it well, but not to crazy. Will I have bottle bombs and flat beers?

How long can I leave my sanitized bottles out before filling with beer. Would they get nasty if I left them out for like 4 hours.

Well I know most say skip the secondary all together, I would but at this moment I have a belgian pale ale that has been in the primary for 2 weeks and the secondary for 1 week. Im thinking about letting it sit in the secondary one more week and then bottle. What do yall think? Also I have an...

I just figured out that light could hurt my beer. I have been using an LED flashlight to look into my beer a couple times a day to check clarity. Obviously I should avoid this practice will this skunk my beer?

So I brewed a Belgian white beer. It asked for a 30 minute boil. Adding 1/2 ounce cascade hops then for the last 15 minutes- orange peels and coriander Then for the last 5 1/2 oz cascade for aroma. So I screwed up at put all the cascade in when the first 1/2 oz was suppose to go instead. How...

So decided to transfer my belgian pale ale after 2 weeks into a secondary. It looked pale in the siphon tube but is now a dark blackish color in the secondary. Will this clear up?

OK so I just racked the wrong beer to secondary. It was a black ale that had been in the primary for 10 days. Never took Fg as I was planning on leaving it their for a while. I racked it thinking it was one that had been in their for 2 weeks. But anyways the beer has showed no air lock activity...

Brewed a belgian pale ale. Its been in the primary for about 1 1/2 weeks. Opened it up because im a noob. It does not look to good. In fact it looks like ****. Is this going to change?

At what point should your beer be at its Final specific gravity. My belgian pale ale is at its listed final specific gravity at day 6 of fermenting. I was thinking about moving it to a secondary.

Brewed three beers extract, Feel comfortable with the process. When is it safe to move to mini mash.

I was under the impression that Oxygen was bad for the Fermenting beer. Yet, when I had a weak fermentation some one told me to check the SG by opening up the fermenter. Anways swim wants to see if his krausen has settled and if he can move it to a secondary. Also he wants to check the SG. Would...

I keep brewing beers that show no airlock activity. Now they ferment but why cant I get good strong fermentation's. I have been brewing Belgian Pale Ale and a Black Ale. The room they are fermenting in is around 68-72 F. I oxygenate them by stirring and Shaking the wort before pitching. The wort...

So I just brewed my first beer. It was a Belgian Pale Ale. I threw it in the primary fermenting bucket and placed it in a room that is around 90 F. I realized my mistake(2-3 days later) and moved it too a room that was 76 F. Will I have bubblegum tasting beer? Oh, yes and bubbles stopped coming...