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I have been fermenting my beer for roughly two weeks now, and I've taking my SG reading and am pretty much on my FG. However when I tried tasting the beer, it smelled and tasted pretty sour with no hop aroma even though I added a lot of flame out hops. Is this normal or do you think my beer...

So I recently switched to all-grain, and my finished beers taste a bit off. I've been batch sparging and am wondering if I am doing it correctly. I always hit my sparge temperature within 1-2 degrees. And my question is when you batch sparge, are you supposed to sparge with 170 degree...

So I made my first all grain beer this last weekend...and as a all grain n00b, I made one key mistake, I couldn't heat my wort fast enough. Long story short it took roughly 4 hours to raise my temp from 150 to 200, at which I was tired and decided cool and ferment. I added my bittering hops...

After ~10 extract batches and some pretty damn good beer, I've decided my next batch will be all grain. I'm in the process of planning to build my mashtun in a cooler and I've basically found two styles to do this. One using SS braiding as in the link below...

After picking up the latest BYO, I decided to build a keezer. I went with the Love TSX-10140 http://www.drillspot.com/products/466548/Love_TSX-10140_Temperature_Switch I know there are other threads on how to wire this, but I want to know the most efficient way to wire it. I found this...

So I'm currently dry hopping my first batch of Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale clone, and I'm using a hop bag to do so. I've noticed the hop bag floats. Is this a problem? Should I try to push it to the bottom of the secondary with a sanitized mash paddle every day? :drunk:

Hey all, I've lurked around here for a few months now, gaining knowledge through internet osmosis. Right now I'm an extract/partial mash brewer with 4-5 batches behind me. I just recently got kegging equipment, and will soon be getting the turkey fryer and cooler to start all grain once the...