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Update: Well, as a couple people in this thread pointed out, the guys behind BA aren't the greatest people to deal with. I never did end up getting permission to release the app to the public in original form, but I made some modifications which should be perfectly legal (on my end). To get...

You guys are so whipped...

Wish I could. Unfortunately I don't have kegging equipment and I want to carb this batch. I may try backsweetening with lactose depending on how this turns out.

Thanks for all your feedback guys :) I'm going to be bottle conditioning this so I don't want any bombs. I gave the fermenter a little swirl last night and it looks like I got the yeast going again. I'll check the gravity again in a week or so.

So you guys that have used Ale yeasts like S-04/05 and Notty - How long did it take for them to ferment out? I've been keeping my fermenter at about 63-65 degrees. Like I said, it's only been two weeks. I was just hoping it was done because right now it tastes perfect (not too sweet and not too...

Hey guys, I started a cider 2 weeks ago using some cheap apple juice from the store. The juice started off at 1.049 and I didn't add anything else to the fermenter. I just took a gravity reading a few hours ago and it is down to 1.008. The yeast used was S-04. Do you guys think this is...

Believe me, I considered just about everything before I dumped the batch. I did countless searches on here to see if anyone experienced issues with spices and found nothing. I boiled the water for the spices for about 5 mins, let it cool to steeping temps (150), and stepped some pumpkin pie...

I wouldn't have dumped it if it wasn't downright nasty. I literally had to spit it back out when I took a sample. I drank my hydro sample just 2 weeks before and it was actually decent. I can't imagine that green beer would have gotten that much grosser with 2 weeks of clearing. It was at the...

So...my second batch of beer ended up getting an infection :(. It tasted great coming out of the primary, but I racked it over to a better bottle to add a spice tea and let it clear (it was the thunderstruck pumpkin ale recipe posted on this board). I waited for everything to settle out and...

Another vote for Pumpking and Unearthly :) You probably won't find Pumpking this time of year though. I couldn't even get any at the brewery back in early November.

I used S04 in a pumpkin ale I made and it was crystal clear after just 2 weeks in the primary...I will be using this yeast for just about everything I make in the future

Here's a n00b question...even if you do cold crash and get a lot of that yeast out, will it reproduce in the bottle to consume the priming sugar? Will cold crashing actually make a bottle conditioned beer clearer in the long run?

I'd also like to hear more about this as the time is coming for me to consider the same thing.

You don't want to bottle condition/carbonate beer in a growler. From what I have gathered from previous posts, they really aren't designed to withstand that kind of pressure.

Thanks for all your responses...it's nice to hear that I am probably worrying for nothing. I will give it it a taste again in two-three weeks so I can see how it progresses. I know that wheat beers are generally supposed to be consumed young so hopefully it clears up when the bottles start to...

Hey everyone, I just made beer from a kit (Raspberry Wheat Beer - Raspberry Wheat w/ Danstar Munich dry yeast). I bottled it last night after two weeks of fermenting and the hydrometer reading was dead on. Well, I couldn't resist having a taste of the beer and I noticed a "bite" that almost...