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I brewed an amber ale on Jan17 racked to a carboy on Jan31. As of a couple of weeks ago. (end of Feb) it looked fine. I uncovered it today to bottle it, and found this. It smells pretty good, maybe a little sour. I'm bottling it regardless, but I'd like to know what this is, and why...

After I bottled my first batch of Apfelwein I put it in my basement to carb, and condition. Three weeks later I checked a bottle just to see how things were progressing, and there was zero carbonation, not even the tiniest hiss when popping the top. I used the recommended Montrachet yeast...

So I decided to try making some Apfelwein. I went to my local home brew store, and they only sell their corn sugar two ways. in 5oz sealed bags for priming, and in bulk. Well the recipe calls for 2lbs of corn sugar, so without even thinking about it I measured and purchaesd 2 1lb bags of the...

I've got a pumpkin ale I've had in primary for about 30 days, it's basically done fermenting, and I wanted to rack to secondary for a week or two to get it off the trub, and clarify it a bit. The problem is the only thing I have for a secondary is a 5 1/2 gallon bucket, and there is about a...

After seven days in the bottle I tasted my first one. It's an American Wheat, from a true brew kit. I really wanted to see how it progresses, so I'm not touching another for another week, but it was actually pretty good. I was pleasantly suprised. Sure the head died down right away, but there...

Hello all, I'm brewing my second batch today. My first from a recipe instead of a kit. The wort recipe calls for .75oz of hops for 60min and 1oz of a different hops for 30min. Question... Are the hops measured in ounces of weight or voluime? I'm, assuming weight, but I'd rather look stupid...

So common sense says If I do two 2.5gal boils in two stockpots at the same time, and split my DME, hops, and other ingredients equally between the two, that is the equivalent of a 5gal full boil minus a little extra volume loss to evaporation due to a larger surface area. However, common...

I just bought some Star San. The directions on the back have been obliterated. Can someone post the directions please? Thanks!