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I made a couple starters tonight, one with WLP013 London Ale. It was a bit chunky and cottage cheesy looking, and it smelled a bit sour. I haven't brewed in a long time, but I used to use WLP013 all the time, and I don't recall it ever looking or smelling like this. I'm back a newbie state of...

After a massive hiatus, I'm dusting off my equipment and getting ready to go out all on a ridiculous TRIPLE brewing day this Friday. I'll be doing a porter, an imperial IPA, and a Christmas wheat beer. The first two will be kegged for the upcoming holidays, and the third will be bottled for...

I just kegged two brews! Before I did, I took a part the beer side ball lock connectors to clean them, and I think I heard a piece fall out when I disassembled one. I couldn't find anything, so I thought maybe it was nothing, but lo and behold, when I put it back together and tried to connect...

I've been out of the game for a while, but I dug out my equipment today in preparation for brewing a couple batches for Christmas. However, my burner is not working correctly. Instead of a tight blue flame, it's gushing out this big billowy orange flame: Any ideas as to what could cause...

Okay, I finally brewed again on Labor Day, the first time since my son was born way back in February. Unfortunately, due to all the... stuff of his taking up real estate in every room in the house, my previous routines have been a bit disrupted. I ended up stowing my carboys in my beer closet...

Okay, I've been WAY out of the brewing scene ever since my wife had our first child on Superbowl Sunday. The last batch I brewed was a couple weeks before he was born, and I FINALLY today am transferring it to a keg. The original gravity was 1.066. Today, I checked it, and it's 1.012. 7%...

So, SWMBO is pregnant. Months ago, when we found out, we got a due date of February 7th. Didn't think much of it at the time. A few months ago, she forwarded me a list of Do's and Don'ts for husbands in the delivery room. One of them was don't have the TV on during delivery. The example...

I decided to go back and sample some of my very first beers, ones that I brewed back in late 2006, when I first joined this forum. I think some will be awful, but some will be awesome, and I just want to put up some reviews for the heck of it.

Hey guys, I'm planning on brewing a porter and using a belgian style yeast to go with it. This is a new combo for me, but I've seen this style before and I figured why not give it a try. I'm hoping to hit a nice balance between chocolate and dark fruit that will be quite nice. The...

Halloween night I got out a couple vials of yeast to warm up while I was out, with the foolish plan of making starters after I got home from a party. Not surprisingly, I was in no mood for that when I got home, and decided to put them back in the fridge over night. They are WLP013 English Ale...

Okay, I'm drinking Breckenridge's Oatmeal Stout, and it's not bad, but not amazing, and I'm noticing this odd flavor. It's sorta roasty, but somewhat like soy sauce. I've tasted it before in porters, and I'm trying to figure out what causes it. Would it be considered an off-flavor, or is it...

To all my fellow Texans, I just bought a six pack of Celis Raspberry a few days ago. I've worked at the same pub for more than ten years, and I remember having Celis White and Raspberry on draft when we first opened. At the time, I wasn't as into beer as I am now, and didn't care for either...

I've got a German style wheat beer that's basically finished with primary. I want to brew my Christmas ale next. I've used the WLP400 Belgian Wit the last two years, and the second time it was pretty good, but I was thinking I could save myself the time, money, and trouble by using my current...

THE DREAM FRIDGE It just needs a ladder and a warning to start on the top shelf and work your way down!

I just tapped the first pint off my second kegged batch, and I cannot believe how awesome it is. The taste seems cleaner, and I think I'm figuring out that there's always a touch of oxidation or something in my bottled beers. I now understand why people say once you go to kegs, you never go...

Hey everyone, Ike really screwed us up down here in Southeast Texas, and that included my beer brewing schedule. We've finally got power restored to almost everyone, and I'm ready to get back after it. So I'm brewing my first pumpkin ale, a little bit later than I originally planned. I...

My massive Imperial Stout took about twelve hours to get rolling, but at T+30hrs or so, it's going absolutely nuts! I've got a blow off tube hooked up, but the fermentations is so strong that it's blowing lots of material through the tube into my sanitized iodine solution tank, and has turned...

Okay, I racked my Imperial Stout onto a White Labs WLP005 British Ale yeast cake from my Porter, and I thought it would be all good, since the yeast has an attenuation of 70.5%. What I failed to notice, however, is that the strain is only rated medium alcohol tolerance, 5-10%. So now I've...

I'm curious what the biggest beers everyone has brewed have been. I brewed an imperial stout today, and it came out bigger than I expected, a massive 1.105 OG! My previous biggest were a dark belgian that was 1.090 and an imperial IPA that was 1.089. How big have you guys gone?

I've kegged my beer, and I'm ready to hook up the CO2 and add some gas to the interior, but I'm a bit paranoid about doing it properly. I've looked around, but nowhere does it specify exactly how to connect the hoses and valves and in what order. I've hooked up plenty of CO2 at my job, but...