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RDWHAHB :) If it is infected with something it's probably not going to kill you, so I say give it a chance. Don't dump it.

What was the FG reading?

Why did you measure after you added the lactose? I'm a total noob, but don't you want to measure the final gravity as it is in the fermenter to make sure it's ready for kegging/bottling, THEN add whatever you want to it? (I always siphon it to a bottling bucket first when adding something to it)...

You can easily calculate this by yourself. Think of mixing two parts together that are a) water with 0 gravity and b) wort with gravity 1.058: 58/4.75 = 12.2105 roughly (we're not building a nuclear weapon) 58/5.5 = 10.5454 roughly (10.5454/12.2105)*58 = 50 I guess his method a lot...

When I thought about this question I immediately thought the answer was yes, but then discovered it was no and realized I had just dreamt that I fermented a batch without an airlock, even without any lid. Weird lol, but now I'm excited to try it!

Yup, happened again. It's my only one so I hope I don't need it for something else before this one is done fermenting.

There is a video somewhere where a guy from wyeast is talking about the clove/banana thing. He basicly said this: If you want clove => pitch correct or overpitch. If you want Banana => underpitch. This should tell you whether you get clove or banana or how it will be balanced between the two...

doesn't it need some sugars to eat for it to start foaming?

I just brewed this. 3 weeks or so since bottling. I really like this beer, it's like nothing else I have ever tasted. Maybe that's because I'm very new to homebrewing. It tastes kind of fruity, malty but more to the dry side than sweet (sometimes a little syropy-like flavor). The hops are very...

For boil overs keep a spray bottle with water around and spray on the boil when it starts to boil over. You can also buy fermcap and with a pipette just put a drop or two in the wort just before it reaches boil. Hope this helps

As long as you see activity in the airlock, bubbling, then you know the yeast is doing its job. Did you take an OG reading? Just wait until there is no activity (around 1 week) and then you can check the gravity and decide if you want to let it stay longer or bottle it. It is recommended that...

The owner of my local homebrew store recommended 6.6 grams of priming sugar per liter of beer. To translate that into ounces and gallons, that's: 0.88 Oz per gallon or 1.76 per 2 gallon. Hope I helped more than confused :)