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I got soapy flavors in an oatmeal stout I made that sat on trub for roughly 6 weeks. I think the temps got slightly in the mid 70's after primary which may have attributed to the soapy flavors. Everything I've read said soapy flavors come from sitting on trub for too long.

Like stated above your beer wont turn out like a commercial lager. Warmer temps especially temps your using for lager strains will produce large amounts of esters. Think banana and clove for belgian strains as an example. Those flavors are results of fermenting belgian strains at high temps and...

Typical hop choices for a brown ale can be styrian goldings, east kent goldings, wilammette, liberty, palisade, sterling. Most of those will be relatively similar in flavor and aroma, if you are just going for bitterness variety is much less important. Your steeping grains wont add much in the...

Maybe you could describe your ideas and we could give you feedback? I know there are some guys on here myself included who have a love for french ales.

Heard some gems at the taproom I work in last week. "Yeah barley wines came around when wine makers screwed up some wine batches" "I don't like saisons mainly because they are wheat beers" Off topic but hilarious. "Jesus didn't need coconut water and probiotics, that dude was ripped.

The high temps will only develop more clove and banana flavored esters. Fermenting at a lower temp isn't bad for your yeast you just wont get the ester levels that you would if you fermented at say 72+. If you can raise the temps I would but I wouldn't worry about your temp fluctuations your...

The sludge and remaining solids will settle out after fermentation stops. If you hit your target OG I don't see why you should have any problems. what was your batch size?

Age makes all beer better green beer can have some funkiness the yeast needs time to clean out all the bi products of fermentation. Be patient and see how it is after its bottled and grabbed some age.

I shared my first batch of homebrew ('Merican Amber) with my grandfather and he asked me whether it was a beer or an ale. I calmly said "well, its both"! He then told me I don't know what I am talking about. :pipe: