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Surprise! It's another "is this infected" thread! Anyways, this wierd brown stuff started floating on the krausen. Everything OK? It is still bubbling away (for two weeks).

Update: I added the corn sugar and had an OG of 1.065, and after 5 days of vigorous fermentation, it stabilized for 2 days at 1.023. I racked it to the secondary today, and it seems to have resumed fermentation ( at least according to the airlock) is this normal. I'm glad that it did since it...

First of all, this is my second "noob" question on this forum and I just wanted to say thank you to everybody. I have never seen a group of people on the internet who are as willing to help without scrutiny. Anyways, I am on my first brew, and it has been fermenting very actively (krausen...

Man I really jacked this one up. In addition to all the other issues, turns out that the bag of corn sugar that came with the recipe was supposed to be used in the wort. I thought it was for priming until I read the instructions again. At least that explains why my OG was so low. I ended up...

Thanks for the info. It was a partial grain with extract. I did have to add 1 gallon of top off water so hopefully that is it. It is already starting to bubble a little bit out of the airlock so hopefully it will be OK with the little bit of yeast that I did get in there.

Thanks. I know I need to relax and not worry, but having any reference point or experience makes me certain that I screwed up. Also, after checking the gravity last night it was 1.054 when the recipe called for it to be 1.064. I was pretty careful to follow the recipe, but I did use hops...

I just finished cooking my first batch, and I made a few mistakes. First of all, I I think I may have poured too much sediment with the wort into my carboy. How much will this affect the finished product? Secondly, I was using WLP001 yeast and when I opened it it kind of expoloded everywhere. I...