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I have been wondering for quite some time on some possible issues of how I have been aging my beer. These are beers that I have bought. It seemed a common way was a dark dry cool spot. Now my concerns.... I have some beer laying on its side like how you would with wine. I do have some...

I just bottled my porter, 5.5 alc%. The brewers best instructions says to leave in temps of 68 to 72 degrees. The avg temp of the dining room is 80 degrees, where I normally store everything. SInce I am new, I dont know how much this really matters. Is this fine, Or should I move to my room...

I just wanted to reaffirm this works. I did some sanitization a few weeks ago with the iodophor stuff, Im not sure how it is spelled. I still have it sitting in a bucket because I was told I can reuse this. Correct? Or is it only a certain type that lasts for quite awhile, like starsan. Thanks

I am flavoring my Baltic Porter right now. Had in Primary for a month (and one day). I plan to flavor for 2 weeks, maybe more I dont know. I was wondering, since this batch has blackstrap, coffee, chocolate, some cardamom, and this all takes time to develop, the beer is about 5.5% alc.; if it...

I have a baltic porter where I just switched to the secondary today, I already flavored with some coffee and cardamom. Its a Brewers Best Kit, at 5.5 percent alc. I put in a quarter of a teaspoon of vanilla extract also. My question, (let me preface I am looking for some well rounded flavors...

I took a hydrometer reading after a week because from what I was reading I pitched and kept my carboy too warm for a porter. Being paranoid I checked everything after a week. Everything seems fine, I don't know what the standard process is but OG is 1.062 and after a week is to 1.02. This is...

Still don't know alot about beers but I just did my second batch ever last night. I woke up and the airlock is bubbling (yes I know airlock is not an indicator of fermentation). It is a baltic porter, og is 1.062, I don't know when Krausen happens or if it will, and I know every batch has its...

Im the guy who screwed up a mr beer hopdevil kit, added too much water, so i had to add other things to cancel out, and for the hell of it I added a small square of lemon peel in the boil, and left in all the way through the primary, (4 weeks), Well, it turned out like a harp beer, actually a...

Hey guys, I have a Brewers Best Baltic Kit, I was planning to add a little molasses, chocolate and cardamom to the process. Just to add to the complexities. I read around and decided not to add more than a half cup of blackstrap to the boil. Obviously this Porter has some Chocolate malts with...

my batch is a screw up, so its my own experiment, but it started out a mr beer kit, now I followed the mr beer kit instructions to add 1 tsp of sugar per 16 oz bottle, now i put the sugar in without dilution, is just having granulated sugar in the bottles now going to work as a primer? I know...

I am the guy who did a mr beer american hop devil, (2 gallons) and when i was suppose to add three quarts, i added 3 gallons..., so 2 days later to the fermentator I added 3 pounds of dry dme, and a packet of cascade hops, obviously after boiling..., now I tasted it as I bottled, it tastes like...

I'm about to bottle my first batch. Now, that was to get a feel for it. I just bought a Brewer's Best Baltic Porter kit. The alcohol content is suppose to be between 7 to 7.5. The several questions I had: 1. I don't have any capacity to bottle when the porter is ready to bottle. Now...

I just started brewing and didn't think I would screw up on the first attempt but I did! I had a MR. Beer Kit (2 gallons) and did the kit in my carboy. 36 hours later I noticed bubbles were very very slow at this point. Then I realized I actually had calculated that i needed to add 3 quarts...