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I just started using yeast nutrient in my last two batches. I have noticed a significant difference in how active my fermentation is since I have been using it.

Wow this was definitely the case. I didn't read your advice until this morning unfortunately. Last night I had bubbles about every 3 seconds. This morning I woke up at 5am to get ready for work and I kept hearing a hissing noise so I followed it to my closet where my beer was. Sure enough...

We have bubbles! So would making a starter off the yeast cake be a good idea next time?

I had a american brown ale that I just bottled and I had an IPA kit so I figure I would save myself a little money and reuse the yeast since both kits call for the same yeast. So yesterday I bottle the brown ale and I scooped out enough of the cake to fill a 12 ounce jar.. I pitched the entire...

Awesome thanks. The instructions in the link given were very similar to the way the instructions were from AHS for the recipe that I got. The only difference I did was that I sparged my specialty grains. I figured it would get a little more flavor out of them.

Ahhh thanks. That makes sense. So it's not really necessary to boil the extract for such a long time, unless you want to boil it for a different taste? Does it affect the fermentable sugars?

So I have done a couple of recipe kits and I was wondering why one kit has me put my malt extract in at the beginning of the boil and another has me put it in at the end and let it sit for 10 minutes. Can anyone explain to me the differences? Does this have to do with the style of the beer...

Well first off I have to thank this forum for existing and thank everyone for their knowledge they are sharing. I have my fourth 5 gallon batch in the fermenter now. The last two I did were so so (they were actually recipe kits) and the first one I did which I just threw together ingredients...

Don't worry about it. Two weeks ago did an American Porter Mr. Beer kit. It was crazy. Within the first day it was foaming and coming out of the keg and got all over the floor in my closet. I had never seen a Mr. Beer kit ferment so actively.

good point

This is exactly what I have been experiencing. "twang" is actually a good way of putting it. I'm doing all extracts as of now. My girlfriends parents draw their tap water directly from an aquafer so I'm thinking of going over there sometime with some jugs and filling up. I just put in...

ah okay. I have been running my water through my brita filter. It's "city" water but it doesn't have any bad flavor.

What kind of water is everyone using? Most of my batches I've been cheap and used tap water that I have just boiled but I think that maybe one of my big problems at to why my beer's aren't turning out better. The one beer that I did use spring water in gallon jugs...it really was great...

Just an update on this. It's been a little over a week that this AK47 has been in the bottle. I opened a bottle...or two this weekend just to see how it was turning out. Everything is fine. No off flavors. It's a little weak but it's still early in the carbonating process and needs to...

did I kill my own thread? haha

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Well I bottled my beer this weekend. I figured I would just follow the directions completely. There were a couple of interesting bubbles on the top that worried me a little like maybe it was infected. I just opened my tester bottle. I always keep one bottle that I try it along the process...

I used a santized wine thief today to get a sample out and it has no off flavors. Tastes like watery flat beer. My last batch was the same way so I left it sit in the fermenter for an extra week. I think someone said "Time heals all brews". Maybe next time I'll use a yeast nutrient.

haha funny thing is I have lost about 30lbs in the past year that I have been home brewing. I don't drink soda's at all anymore because soda vs beer, I'll take a beer! haha I have been a pretty strong vegetable diet though. I'm not vegetarian or anything but I learned a lot and realized I...

Okay cool. Everything smells okay. I have brewed enough to know that smell. I can't really describe it with words but it doesn't smell bad. haha One thing about brewing beer is that I have learned patience and letting things happen on their own.