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I racked a pale ale to the secondary last week for Cascade dry-hopping and when i popped the lid today to check, there were several huge bubbles on the top layer, and even more small bubbles. The bubbles had the look of mold. There were 3 or 4 bubbles that were the size of 2 golf balls, and...

Hey guys, I used corn syrup to prime my last batch about 10 days ago. I mixed it with water and boiled it then cooled it and put it into the priming bucket before racking the beer from the secondary onto it. So far I tried a few bottles and the carbonation is VERY disappointing. Any...

Yeah I screwed it up. But I'd apparently screwed it up before too with not much of an issue, so hopefully it turns out okay.

I put my grains (Crystal Malt) in the water at about 170 degrees and unfortunately the water hit a boil before i removed them. but they weren;t in the boil for more than a minute or two tops. i seem to recall not removing them before a boil before with no consequences, but some people say it's...

Dying to try to make this beer

I brewed a batch of Sam Summer Ale, a clone recipe I got off of this site. Half the extract is Wheat. Anyway I've had in primary for about 2 weeks and krausen is down after 4-5 day fermentation and 6-7 days since then. Should I go to a secondary for a wheat beer? On a related note, if I...

Yes American Ale 1056. My apologies.

Brewed a Sam Summer Friday night. When I pitched the Wyeast American Ale 1065 the smackpack hadn't been broken, so I had to cut the little pack and pour into the carboy. Anyway fermentation began by Saturday morning. This morning though the airlock bubbles have stopped. I know I'll need to check...

What's a typical odor during fermentation? Is it normal to smell "sweet" when you just have wheat/light extract, lemon and grains?

Ranges from 66-72. So far this batch has been 68-72, mostly on the high end of that range.

If any of you recall, this jackass posted a few threads over the last few weeks about a funky alcoholic, almost cider-like odor coming from my carboy and eventually from the batches of a Honey Wheat and American Wheat beer. Some of you diagnosed that the extract, purchased from a homebrew shop...

Can you make a starter using liquid extract?

Sure... First recipe: 1 lb DME 1.5 lb honey 3.3 lb Liquid Wheat Extract 1.5 oz Tettnang .5 Belgian wheat grains Dry Wheat Yeast packet OG 1.042 FG 1.012 Primary 8 days Secondary 10 days This batch smelled particularly sweet/cidery after primary. Tasted funky sweet and watery...

In the bottle or leave it in the fermenter? Or either?

I recently brewed two wheat beers, both of which had a strong, sweet, almost cidery odor at bottling. One of them was less so than the other, but they were both a little "ripe". I'm convinced neither will be drinkable. I opened a one-week conditioned bottle from one of the batches and it was...

Steve another question... The krausen on this beer just dropped last night after one full week of active fermentation. The bubbles in the airlock have all but stopped. Would you suggest a secondary for this beer? If so, when and for how long? If not, how much longer in the primary before...

I was actually only about 1/4 filled with vodka in my airlock....just filled up to halfway and some bubbles are escaping now. Could that have been it, or do you think the bubbles now are just a result of re-plugging the airlock?

When I brewed using a plastic 5-gallon fermenter and an airlock I got bubbles for a few days. But with the new 6.5 gal glass carboy, I saw active fermentation via krausen but no bubbles came into the airlock. Is it possible it's due to the space between the krausen and the head of the carboy...

This question has probably already been answered but couldn't find... I have a wheat beer in a glas carboy as a primary. My first experience using carboy as the primary. Anyway it developed a good head right away, and it's about 2 inches high now on day 2 of fermentation. But the airlock...