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Scottish Ale?

Different yeasts can look and taste very different. Most of them taste good too. Also, you can definitely drink a homebrew out of the bottle, but you'll notice the flavor will change as you get closer to the bottom. As a loose rule, if it smells good while fermenting, the sediment will...

Have any access to White Labs?

yes... and longer. feel free to rack it to a secondary too if you were planning it but it's not necessary

your assumptions are good... it's from giving the yeast something to eat again and if you wait it out, the yeast will reabsorb those sulfur notes

He's asking about partial/full boil in relation to blowoff...

hmm. anyone else have any ideas/experience on this? I usually do partial boils (for speed) so I can't really speak to it.

touche

Teromous: spot on. I know this post is long dead but I recently found it while google-searching on the topic of 2.5 to 5 gallons. Naturally no one's wrong in this topic, but for those of us who are very detail oriented about rebrewing old recipes and sharing recipes with friends, it makes a...

I'm writing b/c I saw almost 50 views and zero comments. I don't have a good answer for you and I've experience similar things myself. On White Labs website I've read dozens of troubleshooting issues for specific yeasts and seen this issue and others like it addressed by their staff. All the...

Agree with previous posters... don't add anything. On a separate note, it might continue slowly since since it blew some of the yeast out when the airlock went airborne. I wouldn't worry about it but don't be surprised.

Agree on all from Skyforger. For 0311USMC: I wouldn't worry too much about categories since you're much more interested in a tasty brew. Who knows, if you love the end product (which sounds like it'll be good), maybe you adjust it later to fit into the category you think most appropriate...

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I think the caramel's fine but I'd use 10L or your beer won't look very light. Agreed on the addition of honey at flameout... keeps the aroma and flavor (boiling tends to kill it). Also agreed on the pissing for bud-clone Hops should be fine depending on your alpha acid... you're really...