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so i transferred my kolsch to my secondary a few minutes ago, and i went to move it down to my basement for the cooler temperature. as i was walking down the stairs, my damn idiot cat ran under my feet and i stepped on it. i fell down the stairs and my carboy fell with me... luckily it was a...

i am trying to determine if my first batch is ready to move to the secondary. i took a sample using a wine thief and my hydro reading was ~ 1.018 (this is a west coast pale ale). the problem is the wine thief goes to the bottom of the bucket and my sample that came out was very cloudy with a...

my first batch of beer has been in my primary for 8 days. it took 96 hours to begin fermenting, but since friday it has been bubbling pretty steadily. i checked on it last night and it smelled great. but today, it smells terrible! almost like a rotten egg smell... is this batch contaminated?

so i brewed my first batch of beer on monday evening (west coast pale ale). i think everything went ok, except that my electric stove had a hard time boiling the wort so i had to leave the lid on most of the way. anyway, i cooled the wort added it to my fermenting bucket and added cool water...