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    Overpitching of yeast and higher fermentation temps.

    I just brewed a 2nd batch of a nut brown ale, and I took the tip from a home brewing blog to add the wort on top of the old yeast and it would be just as good for a few times. When I racked the first batch the secondary I just added the new cooled wort on top of the yeast. I must have a issue...
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    Recipe calls for brewers sugar

    I got some beer kits for very cheap so I tried to make one. The recipe called for brewers sugar...What is this? I read a few places that said in order to alleviate the cider-y taste of table sugar to cook it with some water and lemon juice to break the bonds thus not requiring the yeast to...
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    Taste is good, no aromatics.

    I've brewed stouts, porters, pale ales. The pale ales smell just the same as the stouts. I've done a recipe with a hops at the very end and gotten very little results. I might try fresh hops and see if its that. Just wondering if there was something I was missing.
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    Taste is good, no aromatics.

    I have been brewing for about a year now. I have done extract, partial, and all grain. I have learned a lot and gotten my beers to taste how I want them too, yet I have no aromatics. All the beers smell very similar, like a off water smell with hits of malt. I use dry yeast primary and...
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    2nd Brew Bad Luck...maybe

    If beer can be brewed using wild yeast in the air, I think a little arm in the fermenter won't ruin things.
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    when to bottle?

    Depending on the temperature of the bottles and the amount of priming sugar you used will determine if it is carbonated. I know on my first couple of batches I was very eager to bottle and try them out and rushing them really affected the flavor. You should be fine to bottle and in two weeks...
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