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Style guidelines say carb to 4+ volumes. I'm new to kegging and have only done about 3 batches so far. None of which were ever over 2.5 volumes. Here's the simple (possibly stupid) question: BeerSmith says carb at 34 PSI to achieve 4.2 volumes. But for how long? When following BS carb...

here's where I was 8 months ago after about 5-6 brews (only one was good): https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/need-experienced-brewer-taste-my-beer-155611/ I know this is super long but read on if you can. Got some good responses back then. Implemented many changes. Better Bottle, strict...

Brewing my first Kolsch tomorrow. Just made a starter. Can I keep this starter at 75 which is the ambient temp in my house as long as I decant the beer before pitching? I can either keep it cooler and not use the stir plate or ferment at room temp on the stir plate. I think I should use...

Used washed WL Burton Ale approx. 3 months old. 1.5L starter. Was going to trash the starter due to some STRONG cider smells. Had to go out of town for a week. Forgot about starter. When I came home smelled like beer, tasted like beer so I pitched it. ESB extract kit. Had a 36 hour lag...

Made my first washed yeast starter 2 days ago. White Labs Burton Ale collected about 3 months ago. I use a stir plate. I've made two starters before from WL vials and they went smooth and beer turned out good. This washed yeast took a while to get going, had no krausen, but got very cloudy...

I've brewed two wheat kits from midwest both with dried orange and coriander (1/2 oz) Bottle conditioning the second one now as a matter of fact, a Belgian Wit. Bottom line: They've both tasted like crap. I thought maybe I don't know what it's supposed to taste like but comparing it to Blue...

I made my first starter in 2L flask on stove. Had some baby gas drops (simethicone) in the medicine cabinet. Read it's a good fermcap substitute. used it for foam control. They were expired but I didn't think that would matter. I guess it does. It had no effect but i put it in after the...

For anyone who can take time to read my saga below, it's more a post about my renewed excitement about brewing but it does eventually lead to a question. As i've posted before, i had a great first run at homebrewing then it went to hell in a handbasket. My next 4 batches tasted like total...

Had one of these Sam Adams offerings yesterday. Though I enjoyed the beer the odor and taste (minus the cranberry) reminded me of a bad batch of beer I brewed that I wrote off as ruined by chlorophenols ( it never improved with time, got worse actually). I realize there's a difference between...

First off, you have to be able to handle really bad tasting beer to agree to this job! I'll ship a couple to you. My batting average with homebrewing is really starting to SUCK. All extract kits from Midwest. Muntons Dry Yeast on all but the wheat. started sanitizing with bleach, now use...

I have a lemon coriander wheat that has been trying to carb for about 3 months now. It was my second attempt at homebrewing. I received a 5 oz. corn sugar packet with my kit and I measured out 3/4 cup of it (as I thought that was the proper amount) and added it to the bottling bucket. Had I...

Posted on this Newcastle clone before but after seeing this I needed to see if this was normal. I thought I had identified the terrible aroma and worse taste to phenols from sanitizing with bleach and not giving a good rinse. I racked this beer too early to secondary and thus after a little...

Okay i know I'm supposed to relax, not worry, and have a homebrew but...I'm a little worried and I don't have any homebrew yet:) I moved a Newcastle Clone to secondary too early, I had to swirl the beer around to get it to kick up fermentation again. It did but not much. FG was supposed to...

Weird question I guess. Couldn't find it anywhere else in the forum. Maybe I'm missing it but is it a problem if my primary smells like the last beer I brewed? I brewed a wheat with Danstar Munich and the smell in the bucket was strong even after washing and sanitizing. I went ahead a week...

Hello all. Newbie here. 2nd attempt at my favorite new hobby has raised a question. I brewed a Lemon Coriander Wheat from a Midwest kit which called for the zest of 1 medium lemon. I decided (possibly ill-advised now) to experiment with additional zest. Added zest of 2 oranges, 2 lemons...