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I got a little off in my grain bag and it brought out a pretty strong clove type flavor. Any ideas? Here was the ingredient list 5 lbs. Old Bavarian Munich Blend 1 lbs. amber malt extract 1 lb. German Pilsner malt 1 lb. German Munich malt 1/2 lb. German Melanoidin malt 1/2 lb. German medium...

My last Oktoberfest of the year This was a good year

Making a Dunkelweizen using malt extract and a grain bag. White labs hefeweizen ale yeast. Finished it at 10p and went to sleep. Checked it at 6am and the top of the CO2 vent had popped off so I replaced it. Got home from work and the whole top had blown off of the bucket. What happened?

Dang it was delicious! Thank you everyone

I use the grain bag around my syphon tube to try and keep more particulate from going into secondary or bottling bucket.

White labs abbey ale yeast. Thanks folks just never encountered the foam it had always subsided after a week.

I am making a raspberry wheat. First time to make this recipe. Basic brew part extract part grain. Time to transfer to secondary and add the fruit. When I popped the lid on the primary there was a thick bubbly head. Smelled like bread. Is this normal?

It's bottled a dry stout. I had started a Heineken clone and forgot my secondary was occupied with that when I made my dry stout. Revy advised me not to worry that the stout would be fine if not better for sitting on the yeast cake longer. Besides its a stout. It's black. Not like it needs...

Once again thanks for the reads and the help! Going to buy another fermenter tomorrow

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Wo days ago I put a Canadian ale in my glass carboy secondary. I got a gift card to my brew store and in my excitement brewed an Irish stout tonight. Usually I sit in primary a week transfer to secondary for two weeks then sit in bottles for three weeks. I have read here how a log of people...

my apologies for not being specific. typically I use a grain bag/sparge then add liquid extract, then hops.

Does anyone have a Beamish Irish Stout clone recipe? I really like this beer and cannot find a recipe. Also cannot get Beamish in TX for some weird reason. Could get it in Arkansas but not TX...weird thank you for any help you could provide.

Don't have room in the fridge. I think I will have to research this more before I attempt. Thank you. Most of the dry hop has settled down with a little residual in the top edges. Day 6 in secondary

How do you cold crash.? I live in Texas it's still hot.