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thanks to all. again. AND a response from REVVY! i am honored. honestly. the amount of info and help you put out on this site is impressive, humbling and inspiring. i think i will try it with the porter i am bottling tonight. for some reason it just seemed like it might compliment it...

Would there be any benefit or problem with using dark brown sugar as a primer for bottling? Would this tend to change anything in the final taste? or color? does anyone do this? would this be a dumb thing to do?

yeah i guess it is sulfur-ish-y. but not just sulfur. not that H2S rotten egg smell. just not a clean beer smell. Guess i should leave it alone for a little longer. thanks to both for the input. i'll try to rdwhahb

This is my second batch. Its been in the secondary for about 3 weeks (after 2in the primary) and is ready to bottle. The problem is there is a bit of an off odor. The odor seems to be getting better while sitting in the secondary but is still there. It's sort of a swampy smell for lack of a...

thanks orangeandblue. thought i was missing something big there with that first response to my original post. stout = ale right? whatever doesnt matter. just want to know about pitching liquid yeast without doing a starter.

Yeah its an ale. The liquid yeast (WL british ale WLP 005) was recommended by AHS when ordered online. The dry yeast is all also ale yeast. guess I'd rather use the liquid as long as people think it'll be ok to do without a starter.

I have an oatmeal stout mini-mash kit from AHS that came with the suggested liquid yeast. I was hoping to brew tomorrow but now after reading here I am concerned that I should do the whole starter thing with the liquid yeast which will take time and prevent me from brewing tomorrow. Do you think...

now you know your going to get a TON of dwrhahb's (or maybe dwrhaaw) don't you?

Does it really need to sit at 70. My house is more like 63-64. Do i need to put a heater in the closet with the bottled beer or will it carb ok at this lower temperature? And thanks for the quick responses.

Just bottled my first (an American Pale Ale). I forgot to take a FG reading prior to transfering into the bottling bucket and adding the priming sugar. So when I did check it obviously it was higher than at the last check 2 days before (went from 1.012 to 1.014). I'm just wondering if .002...

only the best goes into my airlocks. the finest scotch (nothing under 25 years old), brandy and congnac. if you cheap out here where does it end? next thing you know you'll be brewing in plastic ziplock bags. only the best all the way. ;)

thanks. dry hopped yesterday at day 8. going to sit for another 2 weeks then bottle. very exciting.

was able to remove the blow off today and replace the 3 piece airlock. man did a lot of stuff come off through the tube. definitely won't make that mistake again. i just hope in my haste to switch things around the other day i didn't contaminate... did i ruin my beer? should i dump it...

So i posted a thread yesterday(two days ago?) about weather a blow off tube was necessary in a 6 gal carboy or if there is enough head room. EVERYONE who answered said "yes", "why not", "why risk it", "I always do" etc. etc. Did i listen?.. No Did I pay the price... almost, very very...

I'm pretty new to this as well (only on my second batch) but the addiction has set in and I've been reading here excessively while I wait for my first batch to be ready to bottle. Anyway as far as the yeast question i think it depends on how much water the yeast was rehydrated with and how much...