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It was Lallemand/Danstar WINDSOR English Ale dry brewing yeast. I can't recall the date on it. On my first 2 brews, I pitched dry ale yeast and had vigorous fermentations with those. This one, I rehydrated and didn't get near the activity. Is this something that happens often? I just bought...

kmos- the first beer i did was an all extract dark ale. Fermented well. Reached a FG of 1.01 after about 10 days. I let it ferment with a high temp (76-78 F), so I believe there were some off flavors. It was drinkable, but not something I could say was good. The 2nd was a called Brickwarmer...

New at homebrewing. I have a Nut Brown Ale in the primary fermenter. It's been in for 19 days. Took a gravity reading today and it looks like it's around 1.018. My OG was right on at 1.050. I rehydrated the yeast on brew day following the direction from Joys of Homebrewing book. This was an...

I'm really wondering if it could be the tap water (along with some other newbie errors). Just talked with a coworker who just started doing homebrew. His first beer came out very well and I asked if he used tap water for any part of his brew and he said no. Used spring water for the boil and...

The buckets are from True Brew. I did have some difficulty when transferring the beer to the bottling bucket. My auto siphon took a minute to get flowing and in turn, some air did make it in the tubing. It took about 4-5 pumps to get a good flow. Could that have caused some of the unwanted...

masterfool101- you mentioned some unwanted trub getting in it before bottling. I may have gotten some in the bottling bucket. I have been using fermenting buckets and cannot see the bottom. I may very well have gotten some trub in it. I do remember tipping the bucket to finish out the...

thanks for the tips everyone. I used tap water to make the wort and then used natural spring water to bring it to 5 gallons for both batches. I didn't use any specialty grains for the first batch. I kept the specialty grains in for 20 min and took them out before temp reached 160 degrees the...

I'm a newbie at homebrewing. I've done 2 recipes so far. First was a Cooper's Dark Ale- all extract kit. This batch was fermented in the 76-80 degree range for the first few days, then finished up in the 70-72 range. Bottled and sat for about 3-4 weeks. I felt that there were some off...

I'm thinking of doing a replicate of a beer from a local brewery. It's a belgian white with the addition of lemongrass, ginger root, and sorachi ace hops. I am a novice homebrewer, so my question is how do I use the lemongrass and ginger root? Does it sit in the fermenter much like you do...

It was an all malt extract kit- i poured the mix/wort(1.5 gal) into 3 gallons of cold water as instructed. I used a plastic fermenting bucket.

I kept the lid on the fermenter while it cooled. I was really concerned about leaving it to cool, but read on the forum that as long as sanitizing was done properly, it would be ok. It was getting late in the night and I had to get some sleep before work the next day. I was too anxious to get...

New to homebrewing. Bought the Complete Joy of Home Brewing book by Charlie Papazian, so I'm trying to follow that. Did an all malt extract brew kit- Coopers Dark Ale. It was really difficult to get the temp down to room temp after mixing and a brief boil of the wort. I had to let it sit...