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Well, I bottled and drank a couple of beers after a week in the bottle. It came out OK. It's fairly strong and more bitter than I expected but it is a good beer all things considered. I think I should have added more water to the wort. The smell is not gone but it receded a lot. It doesn't seem...

Thanks. Yep, I didn't do it that way on my second batch.

Well, I did aereate it very, very vigorously: I read some Safale instructions that said to spread the yeast evenly over the wort surface and let it there for 30 minutes and then stir it up. I did it with a lot of dedication.

@IslandLizard I al using a BrewDemon fermenter, like this one. I am not very comfortable opening it to take a picture but I am going to be doing bottle conditioning in a few days so I can take the pic then. However, I can tell you there is no more krauzen there and the smell and taste is...

Thanks. My expected OG was 1.055 but the actual OG was 1.053. The FG I got from Brewer's Friend was 1.016 and I just took one reading and it's 1.009 or maybe 1.008. Isn't that a lot? The recipe I followed was that from a kit, so I assume it was the right yeast (s-04). Other people have pointed...

For the first batch I soaked the spigot in Star San for a good while. The second one I jauat sprayed heavily. It is true that I have no idea of what I am doing less so of how the green beer should taste. I am gong to test it gain on the weekend when I was supposed to be bottling it but maybe...

You know, I actually do not smell the rotten egg, it's my wife who does. It's true it doesn't smell good at all, but I can't really say it does smell like rotten egg/sulfur. My son tasted it and deemed it's "getting there"... But what does he know, he's only 5... Haha, that was a joke. He's...

Awesome, will look it up. Can it help my current batches?

Oh... but it has always been 75 degrees or so since I pitched which is pretty much room temperature... I mean, these are my first two batches and I never considered anything more than leaving the fermenter in a dark room. What can I do?

75 degrees going by the stick on thermometer in the fermenters. Maybe that's the cause?

Thank you! I can't see how this foul liquid is ever going to become a drinkable beer or even just drinkable, but I will listen to your advice, shawnbou and duboman. It's not like I have anything to do with those fermenters until my next set of ingredients arrive so it might as well just get good...

Thanks. I am using Safale s-04 yeast and using Star San for sanitization. So this is not one of those let it ferment another week situation, right? How should a 2 week old beer taste/smell?

Hi all! So this is my first post and my first couple of batches which are fermenting side by side. They are two 2.5 gallon APA extract batches with s-04 yeast, one is almost two weeks old and the other is just a few days. I have searched and read FAQs and I don't want to make this a "is my...