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Thanks everyone! What type of acid?

It had been a while since my last batch of beer, and I didn't clean out the keg after it was finished. I just soaked the keg in Oxi Clean free for about a week while I was out of town. I'm not sure what the texture of the inside of the keg was before, but now it feels really rough. Did I...

The LME was Dark.

I used a liquid malt extract. I think it was a half gallon. I turned the air back off, the temperature is now about 75 degrees. Does anyone think that I should pitch some more yeast, or just wait?

I used a hydrometer. I just turned on the ac in the apartment. Temperature was at 76, I now have it set to 70.

It was an Irish Stout Extract. I used a dry yeast (not sure of the brand) that came with the in the recipe kit. It started around a 1.040ish. The temperature has been fairly cool, although I've been out of town so I'm not too sure what the apartment has been at. As far as the recipe...

I added my wort to the fementer six days ago. I live in Florida, so the temperature was around 80 degrees F at the time. There was activity in the airlock when I woke up the next morning. By the following night, nothing; activity had ceased. I came home from out of town today and took a...