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Brewed a belgian golden strong several weeks ago. Started at 1.082 and finshed at 1.002 after a long ferment. Beautiful golden color to this beer... Bottle conditioned: The 12 oz bottles are super carbonated but the weird part is the color changed to sort of a light peach...(not a duvel...

I have been using oxi clean like the rest. Works excellent! Buy the fragrance free kind. Some labels refuse to come off I just move on and recycle. Reach out to non brewing but beer living buddies to save you bottles

This finished at 1.002 for anyone following

Thanks. I am really excited for this one! Day 10 and its still rolling along.

That sounds great. I will keep patient and watch the magic happen.

1.063 OG Fermenting at 72 degrees Has been actively fermenting for 9 days straight. Never had any beers go so strong for so long. Anything weird about this strain?

What was your OG?

Made a wheat beer that had an OG of 1.044. Added apricot purée to secondary(didn't take a gravity reading). I read the purée would have an OG by itself is 1.036 - 1.048. So if I just took the median of 1.042.... Would it be correct to take 1.044 starting and add 1.042 to be my OG....? Is that...

The ABA has a great sounding passion fruit mango wheat recipe. http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/community/blog/show?title=recipe-of-the-week-passionfruit-mango-wildfire-wheat However, I am getting jammed up trying to find passion fruit and mango purée. I would prefer not using some...

Did a all grain NB kit this weekend. Their recipe states an OG of 1.044. Mine came out 1.050. Any ideas on what could create a difference? I could only assume the grain bill was overweighed when sent....

Thanks guys

Ok, so made my first yeast starter with DME and Wyeast a couple days ago. I have a nice build up. But am now wondering if I can simply(carefully) pour off the DME wort and keep the yeast cake to pour off into my good wort? Suggestions and advice for this padawan would be appreciated!

Nice post, thanks

Could a veteran brewer provide some exact directions/insight into cold crashing prior to bottling? Everything I google is all over the board...