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I'm experiencing my first seemingly stuck fermentation and I've been trying to figure it out. I tried the just "wait, and give it time" trick...I tried the swirl and raise temp trick...I tried the re-pitch a neutral yeast trick...and just recently I tried the rack on top of a fresh cake...

I'm 24 days into fermenting a 1.080 brew and it's down to 1.030 right now. It's been there for about 10 days and doesn't seem to want to drop. I just recently raised the temperature to about 68F(a cold front moved through, so I'm probably stuck here for a couple of days). I've swirled it...

This is my first crack at building a recipe, so any feedback would be appreciated. I wanted Carafoam instead of Caramunich, but the LHBS guy told me this was the same thing...Beersmith disagrees. lol I love hoppy beers and wanted to make one within the Pale Ale style...this one weighs in...

I brewed this a couple of weeks ago... 11# Pale LME 2# Caramel/Crystal Malt 80L .13# Roasted Barley 2oz Northern Brewer 45min 1 Whirloc Danstar Nottingham OG 1.080 When I put it in Beersmith, it read that it would come out BLACK...I wanted dark, but not black...so I thought that I...

I found this stuff at Home Depot. It doesn't say the words "food safe", but it does say... "Meets or exceeds the requirements of FDA regulation 21. NSF 61 approved. No chemical contamination to drinking water"...

When not in use, is this a safe practice? Is there anything that it can hurt?

Is it retarded for me to use a secondary carboy and then keg?

Is there any reason not to use plastic hose tees for the CO2 lines? http://www.eldonjames.com/html/tee.html

Well, my first batch is a victim of my own inexperience. I fermented too high, didn't properly sanitize my bottles, and miss timed the boil/cool down sequence. The result is a beer with high esters, and a cider bite...with a plastic aftertaste after a burp. lol I'm going to drink them...

What would cause phenols to become present in an extract batch?

Is it possible to clean an aluminum used Turkey fryer pot enough to brew in it? I've read about the oxidation needed to brew in aluminum, but I wasn't sure if the oil would create too much residue to clean out and re-oxidize. Is it worth trying to find one on Craigslist?

So I scored a free fridge off of Craigslist, because my current one won't fit the kegs under the freezer. The new one has the same issue...what should I do? Old One New One

Just started brewing a couple of weeks ago. My first batch is a Brewers Best English Brown. Fermented in the bucket for a week, bottled, and currently aging in the closet waiting to be drunk! I picked up a couple of kegs for future batches, as well as a 5gal glass carboy that I'll most...