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So here's the skinny... I brewed a dry stout and planned on using the yeast cake to ferment my gigantic imperial. Unfortunately, I was unable to find time to brew the imperial stout until about 5.5 weeks after the dry stout finished. When I brewed the imperialt I racked right onto the...

Hope all of you in the Northeast are enjoying a snow day. I have a few questions regarding homebrew competitions. My latest IPA turned out to be the best beer I have ever brewed. I even had remembered to fill 3, 12oz. bottles in order to enter them in a competition. After looking at...

I'll be brewing a dry stout on Sunday during the Super Bowl and have been doing a lot of reading about mineral additions since my brewing water is about as close to distilled as you can get with a pH of 6.1. Brewing an IPA I would normally adjust all of my brewing water with gypsum to get the...

Hello all. I cultured some Bell's yeast from a bottle of two-hearted and have built it up to about 1500mLs using a stir plate and pressure canned starter wort in the last week. I let the yeast drop out of suspension and decanted some of the wort because I was planning on getting another...

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Every all-grain brew I've done I can't seem to get my finishing gravity past 1.018. It doesn't matter what the starting gravity is. I keep my mash temps low, around 149 or 150, I pitch more than enough yeast and I add yeast nutrient...

Finally making the jump into AG after reading a lot and slowly acquiring the equipment. I'll be mashing in a SS 40qt brewpot with a SS false bottom. I'll be using an outdoor burner and insulating the mash tun to hold at temperature. I'm planning on batch sparging. I think I've got a pretty...

I made an arrogant bastard clone about 2 weeks ago. I racked it to the secondary today and because I was only able to do a partial boil, it lacks the hop character I was hoping for. Would it be possible to boil an additional amount of hops in just water and add it to the bottling bucket in a...

My pliny the elder clone has been sitting in the bottles now for a little over two weeks and I decided to give it a try today. After pouring the beer into my glass I noticed a tiny white ring around the bottle neck and grimaced. I've tasted the beer though and there are no off flavors that I...

Hello all. I witnessed a rather disturbing sight I've never seen in my primary before. After the krausen fell back into the partially fermented beer it took a large amount of chunky objects with it. It's my first time brewing with lager yeast (it's a California Common with Wyeast 2112) and I...

My first high-gravity brew will be ready to bottle by the weekend. It's a pliny the elder clone that had an OG of 1.076. It was in the primary for 1 week and after the quite vigorous fermentation ended I put it in the secondary and dry-hopped for the past 6 days. The gravity as of today was...

Hello all. I finally signed up for an account today after finding answers to my many questions when I first started brewing several months ago. Hopefully I can add what little knowledge I've gained through my first eight attempts and continue to find answers to questions I have from this...