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Yup. I use a blow-off to start every ferment, then switch to airlock after the Krausen falls

Or just stick a slice of lemon in your glass after you pour it. That way, if the lemon flavor doesn't play the way you're looking for you don't have an entire undrinkable batch

Definitely sounds like your problem lies in your bottling process. I'd say any kind of soap is bad news for bottles, it's just so hard to get it all out. They sell bottle washing nozzles at most lhbs that screw right onto your faucet that make a really strong jet for washing, then a soak in...

Nylon should work fine! I do my partial mashes in a nylon paint strainer bag

Also, be carful when opening those bottles. Try holding them with a towel, I had a bomber of ris blow up in my hands when opening. Was a scary thing...

Tie a sanitized piece of cheesecloth or hopsack around the end of your racking cane

I made sure to save the fifth gallon with no adjuncts to act as a control. It's delicious already!

Here's a pic of my split batch. Secondary fermentation took off with the two blackberry adjuncts

dont use your bottling bucket as a secondary, too much chance of leaks/oxidation you can actually dry-hop in your primary with no problem, just wait a couple of weeks for your fermentation to finish, then add your dry hops for the prescribed amount of time, then transfer to your bottling bucket...

I use commercial bottles that I've washed and de-labed with oxiclean all the time. The only bottles that I've bought are a case of 22oz bombers that I wanted to bottle a Russian Imperial Stout with. Before you go crazy buying founders, try capping one to make sure your bottle capper can handle...

The SN is just an old handle I have from playing waaay too much counterstrike back in the day. Nothing to do with police, just an acronym for Nock Your Punk@ss Down Shaun- How long did you leave the wort on the coffee and how much did you use? What style of beer did you add it to?

So two weeks ago, I brewed "Who's your taddy Porter" from brewing classic styles. Looks something like this: 6.6# Pale LME 1# Brown Malt 1# Crystal 40L 10oz Chocolate Malt 350L 1.25oz Fuggles @60 .5oz Fuggles @10 Pitched 11g Notty 5 gal final volume og 1.052 Fermented 15 days in the...

The bright side is that your og will probably be a little higher so even though you'll have less beer, you'll have more abv =P

the formation of fusels is more dependent on your fermentation temperatures, and less with the initial pitching temp. With a pitching temp that hight you might actually be killing some of your yeast, which can lead to off-flavors. Try getting one of those stick on thermometers for the side of...

You should be fine on this batch, just going to have a little less abv. Also, are you sure you mixed up your wort enough that you werernt just pulling a sample off of your top off water? I typically mix with a sanitized mash paddle hooked up to an electric drill for 3-5 min so I get good mixing...

one thing I've done to help the boil get going on my stove is to partially cover the pot with the lid that it came with. Goes without saying that you need to be nearby for pretty much your whole boil as boilover is a constant threat. I've also noticed that when I do this, my post boil volume...

yup. I brewed McQuaker's Oatmeal Stout from Brewing Classic Styles without mashing the oats (just a 30 min steep with the rest of the specialty grains is all the extract with grains version called for) while it lacks the body of a really "thick" stout, the oats did contribute a wonderful...

try seeing if it's calibrated right by testing it in 60F plain water

when I added yeast at bottling time (1 packet us-04) I didnt notice any extremely yeasty flavor upon opening a taster. the only reason I did this at all was to make sure there was healthy yeast available for carbonation as my bulk aging took two months in the secondary at ~10% abv and I wasnt...

oh my goodness! that's a frighteningly high FG. Is that the target the recipe called for? Im surprised the champagne yeast didnt get it down lower that that. you might consider wrapping your cases in trash bags just in case so you dont ruin any carpet if you do explode. Also, be really...