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I brewed a big stout on 9/24 that had an OG of 1.098. I used two packages of Safale US-04. My LHBS guy told me that I did not need to rehydrate the yeast because it was fairly fresh. I expect it to finish around 1.020 and I checked the gravity last night and it was 1.037. So I shook the hell out...

How do I make my brew smoother? Every batch seems to have some bite. I use Palmer's How to Brew carbonation table to ensure the accurate amount of priming sugar is added. Any secret tips to make my brew a little smoother??? I appreciate any help

I brewed a beer a couple Saturdays ago that I fashioned to taste like the Yeti Imperial Stout from Great Divide. It is looking, smelling and tasting good so far. I racked it yesterday into secondary and I don't know how long I should leave it in there for. Any suggestions? I was planning on 3...

I have noticed the yeast flavor coming through in my beer at the point of the beer being over carbed. I don't have enough fridge space to put all the beer I make in there so they sit out for too long sometimes and get a little over-carbonated. But anyways, the hop flavor weakens and the yeast...

Just brewed this tonight, 6 lbs Northern Brewer Gold LME 1.5 lbs Briess Dark DME 10 oz. Crystal 60 6 oz. Chocolate Malt 2 oz. Roasted Barley 8 oz. Dark Brown Sugar(Caramelized) late addition 1 oz. Nugget 12.2% (60) .5 oz. Mt. Ranier 7.5% (45) .5 oz. Mt. Ranier 7.5% (30) .5 oz...

I brewed a Kolsch two weeks ago yesterday, it was only my 5th batch of brew. The guy at the LHBS said I could just ferment in the primary with this one and it shouldn't be a problem usin single stage fermentation. The instructions said they recommend two stage fermentation. I guess I have yet to...

I'm sure the answer is somewhere on here but I don't have the patience to search for it. I just tasted my first brew, it was a Two Hearted Clone. Tastes delicious, but it's not very carbonated. I ended up bottling just over 4 gal and used 5 oz of priming sugar and thought that might have been...

I just brewed my first fruit beer, which was also my first 1 gallon boil, which was also my first time rehydrating dry yeast. It's just an ale as of now but plan to rack on top of .5 lb of raspberries. Now I usually use the smack pack Wyeast activators, so bare with me. I was told to use half a...