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So...update, I guess. Actually, more like a cry for more help. I let this brew sit in the carboy for about 3 weeks. I bottled it and it has been about 3 weeks since bottling. This brew doesn't have any of the weird flavors I expected, but it has a few that I didn't expect, and that sort of...

Rum diarrhea?

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Sonny Jim

I am a newer brewer, have only done beer so far. My brother-in-law, who has never brewed anything, wants to do a cider and I have the equipment he needs. My brewing experience so far has been a series of lessons in "what not to do" but I am wondering if a beer brewing mistake I made might...

Rogue agent.

I would be completely lost without you people. Thanks all!

I took a measure last night...1.015. Only slightly lower than my target, so yeah it really did ferment that fast, and yeah it really does taste like apple cider. But I still have these question: if I give the yeasts lots of extra time to wallow in their own filth and "clean up" the...

Green beer

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One more question...this thread doesn't appear when I click on "my threads," but my other two do appear. Have any experience with that?

The first batch (at 212) boiled off about nearly a gallon (I started with about 3½) The second batch (at 206) only lost about a half gallon (also started at 3½). Absolutely sure? no. I was just looking for the crazy foam action and never saw it. Yeah I used a wort chiller. Expensive...

So I have done two batches so far from extract. I watched many many many videos on brewing before I attempted it myself and I always see the "hot break" referred to in the boiling process. But it never happened in either of my boils. I know that extract has already been hot breaked, so it may...

Ok so clearly if my fermentation is done I am going to have some strange issues - off flavors and the like. It was recommended earlier in this thread that I give the beer time to sit in the fermenter to "clean up" the flavors - would taking the beer off of the yeast cake help or hurt this...

Cool, thanks. I think I know what to do now, but I do have a follow up question. When I am taking all these gravity readings what is the best way to not waste a bunch of Starsan? A spray bottle perhaps? I use a thief to take the sample and there's a lot of square inches to sanitize there.

...and day 2...

Ok, thanks. Just to give you a visual this is day 1: