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Interesting point about how fresh ingredients are. If you order yeast online versus asking the HB store to order it, I wonder how much difference there would actually be. Of course, the shipping temp factors in as well. Another point about a good HB store being 'more than just stuff on...

Racked to a third carboy to clarify... it was pretty difficult because the siphon kept clogging up with cherry skins. I ended up switching to a funnel and a screen to transfer, even though I worried about splashing the beer like that. By the time i finished, it looked like a cherry smoothie...

Maybe this is unique to the beer I'm brewing, but it seems like it's fairly dark and red after adding the cherries. I can't imagine even noticing cloudiness. Hopefully this will change within the next few months. I still have another week and a half in the secondary (according to the...

I made a Chimay Grande Reserve clone from the recipe in 'Beer Captured' by the Szamatulskis. They suggest you pitch another dose of the same yeast 3 days before bottling to "ensure that the beer is fully fermented." They also say that it will "greatly improve carbonation." I did 2 weeks in...

thanks a lot!

yeah, just an approximate if i don't bother to take hydrometer readings. thanks

6 lbs. of smashed cherries put in secondary fermenter, siphoned a plain wheat beer on top of that... day 2 had all the cherry skins clogging up the blowout tube. I'd definitely recommend racking to another 6.5 instead of a 5 gallon carboy if anyone else tries the same style and doesn't want...

I tried to find this online and in a few of my beer books, but couldn't... so maybe it's a dumb question.... I know there are countless ways to figure out the exact ABV based on the ingredients used, but is there a simple approximate Dry Malt Extract to ABV ratio (based on 5 gallons of water).