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Much ado about nothing. I took a sample while I was filling the bottling bucket. Beer tastes very good and it's a beautifully rich amber color, and clear as a bell. Thanks everybody. Very pleased with the outcome.

I have used 1 gallons bottles of Ice Mountain Spring water for my last couple batches of beer. I assumed it was clean, chlorine/chloramine free. Am I assuming incorrectly?

I have used 1 gallons bottles of Ice Mountain Spring water for my last couple batches of beer. I assumed it was clean, chlorine/chloramine free. Am I assuming incorrectly?

That's what I was hoping for, but it sure looks to me like the top is forming "a layer" - sort of a pale hazy film. It's almost time to bottle but I am a little leary of what's on top. I'll probably put the whole carboy in the basement refridgerator and see if the cold does anything to it...

I bought an Brewer's Best American Amber kit that is in the secondary fermenter but it looks like it's growing mold on the top. I noticed strange clusters of white bubbles with streaks (like the tail of a comet) on the surface a couple days ago. This morning I checked on it again and a ring...

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Henry Weinhard's Woodland Pass IPA flat out sucks. It's the first beer I can ever remember NOT finishing. It's hot garbage.

Well, I don't know how it compares to the original 2 Hearted, but it tastes pretty darn good to me.

Whoa. Came home from work today to find the bung and blow off tube had blown right out of the carboy. The bottom of the bung got clogged with bits of hops. I don't think I have to worry about contamination because there was still foam oozing out, so the CO2 should have kept any oxygen off...

I pitched last night and had no activity as of 1pm this afternoon. The temp read 64° so I moved the carboy off the floor, on top of a file cabinet, and closer to a warm spot next to the furnace. Activity picked up immediately because the temp rose to 75° however, the aroma from the submerged...

I boiled up my 3rd batch tonight as the snow hammered us here in Michigan. I found a NCBA recipe on the site but it was All Grain. So my guy at the brew shop found a recipe in one of his books. 2oz each British Crystal Malt, British Chocolate Malt, and British Black Malt. Steeped at 150° for...

I've had my first bottle after its been conditioning for 2 weeks. I'm pleased with the outcome. It's got the hoppiness I like, but a shade too bitter on the finish. All in all, I'd give it a 6.5 out of 10. I'm glad I got back in the game. I also have a Weihenstephaner a week in the primary...

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According to the Starsan MSDS, it has an evaporation rate of .9 (water = 1) and is completely soluble in water. My guess is that if you continued to boil after you applied it, it probably boiled off. I'm not a chemist or anything like that, so this is honestly just my best guess.

Give it to me so I can put some spirits in it. I'll even send you a few bottles when it's done in a year or so.

It's been 2 weeks in the secondary. I felt it was a little cloudy so I'm attempting to cold crash by putting the carboy in the fridge until Sunday when I'll bottle. OG was 1.070 (recipe said it should have been 1.058). I forgot to compensate for evaporation so I don't have 5 gallons. I...

I'm coming up on 2 weeks in the secondary. The beer has cleared fairly well other than some flakes of hops on top from when I pitched when racking. I plan on bottling this week. I'm leery that it will taste anything like Two Hearted but thats ok. I'm sure I'll enjoy it. It smells good.

My weekend was filled with confounding issues and stupid mistakes. Nobody cracks more eggs to make an omelet than I do. But, the passion inside overcomes the mistakes made along the way. Just ask any casual golfer. They hack up a muni course worse than a family of gophers, but it's that one...

I racked to the secondary fermenter after 1 week, and pitched the last 2/3oz of the hops. There are no bumbles percolating from the air lock, but my temperature reading is 60 degrees on the carboy. I moved it to another utility room in the basement near the furnace and wrapped it in 3 towels...

It's been 3 full days since I boiled the wort and pitched the yeast. Fermentation was vigorous on day 2 but has slowed down to 1 percolation every 4 seconds. There's a frothy head on the top but not much has settled on the bottom. The brew has not started to cleat at all. It sort of looks...