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Hey all, have done about 5 brews all but the last were dry yeast packets, and the last was a liquid yeast from a pack I broke to activate it with nutrients. Ive heard yeast can greatly effect your beer and improve the taste greatly.What are some good threads on here to learn about yeast, what to...

Hey all, just made a cider on 12/1 with 5 gallons of apple cider(pasteurized) and 1 cup brown sugar, then used champane yeast and had great airlock activity for 3 days. Had a little too much to drink the day of and didn't get a starting gravity(idiot ,I know). Anyway, Took a gravity reading...

Hey all, so I bottled my red ale on 10/11/11(my 1st homebrew) and tried it two weeks later. everything tasted great with good carbonation. So...I put the rest in the frig for use on thanksgiving. have had a few since and all taste fine until today when i poured one the carbonation definetly was...

Hey all... Have a porter in the primary for 2.5 weeks now and haven't seen any activity for quite sometime..I know the initial fermentation is 24-48 hours after u pitch the yeast. My ? Is how do you know if your fermentation has slowed and is there a way to make "help" it out at all if it is...

Hey all, Quick ?...doin my 1st batch and it's a week into fermentation. Had a lot of good activity ie bubbles the 1st 24 hrs and I'm hopin the yeast did its job. Doin a pale ale by the way. So I took readings on my test jar in the beginning and got a OG of 1.045....just did another reading...

Doin my first batch in a week or so and have a lot of ?s but the one I'm stuck on now is this: I'm doin 5 gallons and I have 4lbs liquid malt extract and a half pound grains I'm going to steap. Is this enough or do I need to add more malt extract liquid or dry? Is there a rule of thumb on how...