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How much yeast did you pitch? What temp is it at now? You could try a few fixes, adding more yeast, warming it, rocking it, adding brett... Your recipe or process could be at fault. With more info we can try and help you avoid the problem in the future.

I've been wanting to upgrade for about a year, but putting it off as long as possible. Seems I waited long enough; Leopard, santa rosa and 4gb of ram (after I put some in).

My iBook is gettng long in the tooth (and short on keys since my 1 year old found it). So I went and got a black macbook today. I'll get to play with it once the kid's in bed. I can finally run beer alchemy!

I meant to say dishwasher, followed by picker (buying vintage clothes from goodwills and garage sales for resale) and then ice cream man.

manually "nursing" farm animals for artificial insemination

IF you get the aroma you want from dry hopping then you should dry hop more. The website may be correct about getting more at 7 minutes, but if it isn't more of what you want.... You could also try a hop back.

Olive oil also contains stuff you don't want in your beer. There was a long discussion about it in the HBD. It sounds nice, but I'm sticking with O2.

That's a nice collection of bretts. You say the different strains are mixed, so a single cube has multiple, unknown strains on it? If the bretts are separate I would try a few of them in a Belgian strong golden ale. It will be ready pretty soon and a young brett character is really nice with...

Run your grains through twice. Poor efficiency is 99% poor crush.

1) Is a 45 to 60 minute lauter long enough for a typical 5-gallon batch, or should this be taking longer? Yep, plenty long enough 2) Should I be aiming for a specific lauter flow rate (given a 5-gallon batch scale)? Slow enough to have even flow through out the grain bed and not compact the...

I thought that was "convincormented"... a perfectly cromulent word. grain mills are cool, just don't get your fingers caught in the rollers.

Listen to the Jamil Show on RIS. Be sure to pitch enough yeast and use a blow off tube, these things are notorious for explosive fermentations (I still have RIS stains almost two years later). Stay safe in Afganistan.

I loved my better bottle to begin with, but then I started worrying about the scratches inside from cleaning. If you use a bb you can never scrub the inside with a carboy brush, hello contamination. Carboys break and can be dangerous. Kegs have bad dimensions for fermentation. Buckets have...

You do harm to your yeast by not rehydration per the manufacturer's instructions. If you want to make a starter after rehydrating you can but I would just use another yeast packet, it's cheaper.

Question: Will adding sugar to an already fermenting beer give you a lower finishing gravity than you would had without the extra sugar? Yes. The sugar will be converted into alcohol and the alcohol has a gravity lower than 1.016 therefore it will lower the final gravity of the beer. If you...

Adding sugar was an option when it was at high krausen, but now you are too late. It probably wouldn't give you the best results anyways. It sounds to me like you have a good beer on your hands... depending on what kind of "too phenolic" you mean; a lot of the banana will mellow out and some...

helps head retention I'd use up all the grain in storage and clean everything in that area before placing my next order.

This is a good technique to increase the ABV and dry a beer out a bit. It helps if you have planned ahead instead of having to re-awaken your now dormant yeast. Melt the sugar in boiling water, cool and add it while the yeast is kicking, just after the peak in fermentation. Waking the yeast up...

That's why you should buy your own Christmas presents. I got the Monster Mill when my B3 grain gobbler finally died.* I probably would have gone with something which works out of the box, but didn't want to pay more in shipping a base and hopper. $139 deliver to my door, in Japan. The thing is...

Thinking about it you could probably use a fair amount of unmalted grain as a base as long as you had a high enough DP and are able to do an extended step mash. It is all theoretic but I could see good beer coming from a 75% unmalted grist.