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Just walked into room bucket is in, smells like rotten eggs, I think it's fermenting

Yes, it was a dry yeast. No date on the package. I'll check the lid again thanks

48 hours after pitching and still no activity noted from the air lock. Any suggestions?

So last night I brewed a Brewers Best Orange Shandy and was under prepared. After topping off to 5 gallons in fermentation vessel (bucket) my temp was at 84 degrees. I covered with lid and had air lock on and covered with wet towel and had fan blowing on it all night for about 9 hours. Temp was...

It was excellent. Very "juicy". I guess I'm confused on the APA to an IPA part

Hi all. I went to to DHB in Chicago a while back and had the Bitchin Camaro. It was awesome and I want to clone it. They describe it as taking their "popular APA and making it into an IPA". They used Mosaic and Amarillo hops, but no other descriptors. Any idea how I could clone this? Thank you

So I purchased a standard IPA recipe kit from my LHBS and will be getting a peach extract from him as well. I haven't made an IPA before, this will be my 3rd brew, and plan on doing about half regular IPA and then add peach extract to the remaining half for a peach IPA.

1lb per gallon? How many cans of purée? I found 49 oz cans of peach purée

Hi all, I am wanting to try a beer with peach in it and am wondering what beer style is the best to pair with peaches. I have never brewed with fruit before Any other suggestions are appreciated. Thanks

I just transferred mine to secondary after 4 weeks. It looks a little dark will this lighten up a bit? I didn't take a sample could I take a little out with baster and try?

I didn't know if the spray would mess up the beer or not.

I am in the planning stages of making a Pumpkin Ale recipe kit from my LHBS. The recipe uses Liberty Hops at 60 min and Cascade at 10 minutes. From my research it looks better to avoid the late hop addition so I am taking that out, but which one would be the better choice for bittering. It is an...

This may sound dumb but do you spray the pan before roasting the pumpkin so it won't stick?

What is the advantage of baking the canned pumpkin? What would adding maple syrup do? Will that completely ferment out, will that add to the taste or increase ABV? Looking to try a pumpkin ale recipe kit from my LHBS. Thanks.

Actually I have bottled it and it's been in the bottles for 3 weeks now. Carbed up very nicely.