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Hi, Im growing 2 types of hops but mixed them up... One is cascade and the other is nugget. I included a picture, here are some notes: Long cone : Early to flower and develop now almost ready for harvest. smells hoppy Round cone : slower to develop, many cones still small. smells grassy...

I have 2 casses of incredibly delicious, hoppy pale ale in bottles. The bottles are over carbonated. The problem for me is that when I open a bottle, bubbles form at the bottom of the beer and big chunks of the yeast on the bottom get distributed though the beer, making it taste yeasty...

thanks brewing medic. this is good advice. This is my first mead, i brew alot of beer, so compared to beer the mead tastes really hot. i dont think the batch was infected. no vinegar, taste, 100% pasteurized juice with no additives or preservatives. i think a hot ferment, dry, green mead, and...

Thanks for all the feedback. The taste is both hot and nailpolishy. i used notingham dry ale yeast. tastes like it got about all the sugars...

I made my first mead about a month ago. 2 pounds of honey, 16 oz of mango juice and the topped off with water in a 1gal glass growler. It warm here, mid to high 70s. Fermentation still took almost a month with ale yeast, but it fermented out very dry ( .998 ish ). I bottled it in 5 22oz bottles...

Just a quick update for anyone that is afraid they have infected a batch and it is ruined: DONT TOSS IT OUT. this batch look bad to me but i racked it to a bottling bucket, left out the top 2 inches of beer from the fermentor and bottled it. It has been warm here so bottle carbonation went...

ya it was like white flakes of snow. I think it was the beginning of an infection but I bottled it, so we will see how it comes out. it tasted fine when I tried it so I have my fingers crossed. My only concern is that, because I added dextros for bottle carbonation, the infection will eat that...

i did one of those last year, came out a little to "musty" for my taste. I think mixing citra with other hopps works out better.

black and tan, cant beat it.

ya this puppy will be good if the infection doesn't stick. lots of bittering hops, lots of late cascade and lots of Amarillo in the Dry hopper. mmmm

i just tasted it, i think it tastes fine, IBU for this beer is like 105, so the bitterness kinda covers the rest... leeeeroyyy jennnkins.

Thanks for the feedback. I did sanitize everything. im really good about it and have never had a bad batch... i did, for the first time, not use a secondary for dryhopping. i know this doesn't make a difference.. this infection happened over the last 48 hours. and the wort was already finished...

Well, what do you guys think? Looks nasty to me. White stuff looks like snow... big turd looking thing is a dry hop bag... should i bottle it anyway? will it make me sick?

im going to put it outside for a bit and cool it down a few degrees tonight. do you think this will hurt the yeast?

ok, i understand, thanks for the help.