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Is there any salvation to be had? I have always submerged my blowoff tubes in simply water... and have never had issues.

I brewed this AHS Chocolate Raspberry stout 3 weeks ago. The brew went completely according to plan, it was my 6th batch so I think I have the hang of this whole thing... or apparently not. I put a blow off on and after 2 weeks I realized that the fermenter actually shrunk... so I guess I cause...

why not lemon zest instead of lemon peel... wouldn't that produce a more pronounced flavor? i just did a mini-mash of a Summer Saison that had 2oz. lemon zest @ 10 minutes, now i think i'm going to add peels to the secondary to bring out a bit more flavor. i'm new, but just my $.02 :)

So i brewed the AHS Belgian Summer Saison this weekend... the recipe went something like this: 3.5xPale LME 3.5xWheat LME 60 mins - tradition hops (2oz) & 1% ABV booster 15 mins - cardamom seeds (1oz?) & lemon zest (2oz) 10 mins - yeast fuel 5 mins - bittering hops (i forget) i was...

better safe than sorry, right? oh well :sigh:

i did this on my Dubbel IPA two weeks ago... i wasn't worried, i was just mad about the smell in my kitchen! i still haven't washed that pot... ****.

1st brew: i used dry gin, no problems here :) 2nd brew: iodophore, still no problems

gotcha. unfortunately i'm going out of town for 5 days, so if i don't rack tonight i'll lose some time. not really a bad thing i guess... i just won't be able to put it into a secondary until next monday. no, i don't have another bottling bucket. i'll be sure not to do this next time

i was thinking that i need to get it off the yeast cake before bottling though... but i guess not? with my last batch i got to leave all the trub/stuff behind in the carboy because i let it sit in the carboy. this time i was feeling lazy so i left it in the bottling bucket instead of fermenting...

So i searched, and this is kind of kit specific (well, beer specific) in my case, so i just figured i'd check out what you guys thought... kit recommends the standard 1-2-3 for this. It's a Dubbel, honestly i can't remember where i got it from, extract kit with a partial mash. i used an Irish...

thanks a lot! helped greatly! just burnt a bit of my LME and my handles on my brew pot decided to start leaking, duct tape FTW.

i just simmered the grains in the bag for 30 minutes @ ~152 degrees and the instructions say sparse with 2 gallons of water. am i supposed to remove the grains or leave them in for the entirety of the boil? help!!! TIA for the quick answers

my first beer from my first batch. only 10 days in the bottle and it's damn near perfect IMO. cant complain one bit, and it'll get better with time. best part? my birthday is wednesday and i didn't think it would be ready in time!!! AWESOME :)

all done with the starter... it's about 1inch from the brim of my 1000ml flask so when i get home tonight i'm 99% sure that the airlock is going to be blown. oh well, i have no other container :(

PERFECT. thanks a ton. i have a yeast accelerator as well i'm going to be using in this batch, so i'm not too concerned about the ~day wasted on the starter, but i also read *somewhere* that 18-24 is enough for the starter (i can't recall where). it's Wyeast Liquid, i used dry yeast on my first...

oh and a follow up question - when pitching the priming sugar into my last (first) batch, i didn't boil it down in (1 cup of) water, i just added it directly. i thoroughly stirred while not oxegenating the beer so i'm confident i shouldn't have any bottle bombs/uneven carbonation (for the...

So i know that there are all these ways to make starters, but i'm kind of confused with the instructions sheet i've received/materials ect. so i'll start with this: that's the sheet. so i have the big tub of DME and i'm set with that, but then i have a "5oz Yeast Starter pack (Dry Malt...

rule of thumb? can't do much damage with that... should have been the rule of wrist!!!

last i checked, 2.5 weeks in the primary and 3 weeks in the bottle is less than 1-2-3 ;) i'm up in the air right now. been 10 days, i have the option of racking or leaving it. it's my first brew as well, i think i'm going to leave it until next wednesday (brewed last sunday)

comon' it's not snowing hard enough right now for that :p bad.... eye.... dear...