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No, it fermented at more like 70F ambient temp. The badness... Hmm... Kind of a rubbery, medicinal thing maybe? I don't know if I would say solventy, though my first thought was that maybe even 70F was too high. Though if it was, I would have expected that to produce just a slight "off" flavor...

Hello. I've been brewing for about a year. Had some good ones, some stinkers. Switched to all-grain not too long ago. The all-grain batches I've done, all BIAB, while following a recipe have generally been quite good, so I threw together some recipes of my own to try to get a feel for...

Hi. I made a pumpkin dubbel last year as like my third brew ever. Wasn't a big fan, though it definitely held true to the whole "the last beer is the best" adage. The longer the bottles sat, the better each successive one tasted. I think the spices we used were our biggest downfall. The cinnamon...

Haha. Oops. Yep, my bad. :p I actually mix up Colorado and California breweries often.

Ooh, one more quick one. Not really "overheard", but certainly relevant to the topic. I work in Whitewater, WI, and there's a fairly new place in town with OK food but a few really fantastic things on tap. It's the first and only of it's kind in town so far. Anyway, the waitstaff goes from "OK"...

Oh, man! I had to add my story after that last one. Was in a convenience store in Cleveland, Mississippi a few years ago. A friend of mine was on staff at Delta State University at the time. Keep in mind that home brewing is (I think) still illegal down there, and microbreweries have only been...

My GF was recently in Northern Ireland for a year, and apparently it was easier to get a hold of Brew Dog there. She shared a bottle of Tactical Nuclear Penguin with a classmate (she was in a master's program at Queen's) as a goodbye present. His comment on the beer was that it was tasty like...

Small potatoes compared to some of your examples, but while going to visit my GF in Northern Ireland last year (where she was working on a Master's), I enjoyed hitting up Jet Rock in the Philly Airport during my layover. Had a decent tap list, but the last time I went, the 20+ oz Rye IPA and the...

I just brewed a rye brown with grains that were crushed about 3 months ago. Only one of the bags had been opened for the last month or so- the one with the remaining 5-6 lbs of 2-row. The rest were still sealed from Austin Homebrew Supply. They stayed in their bags inside the box for all of the...

Haha. Man, I just had a monstrously quick fermentation with S-04. Of course, I have no idea what my pitching temp was because my thermometer was all over the place. But it was definitely high! Also got up to 72F in the room overnight. Anyway, krausen was gushing out the top by the next morning...

Hello. I live in a small apartment but have switched to all-grain, so I'm a 2.5 gallon BIAB kind of guy. Since smack packs and dried packets are meant for low to medium gravity 5 gallon batches, I would normally pitch the entire contents of them into a high gravity 2.5 gallon batch (in lieu of...

Howdy. Made a rye brown ale last night. Or attempted too anyway. At this point, I have no idea what I'm going to end up with. Temperature readings from my digital thermometer were all over the map. Even with vigorous stirring, I was getting wildly different readings during the mash (bouncing...

I'm in a similar boat. Bought enough grain for 4 batches over a month ago when Austin Homebrew had a free shipping deal or something like that. Expected to be able to bang them out pretty quickly, but my brewing partner is obviously not as interested in brewing as he once was (now that he has a...

I've only made a few starters so far, but I pitch the whole thing! Actually, my starters may not be true starters, per se. For the few 5 gallon batches I've made over the last several months that had a high OG, I basically just smacked the Wyeast pack the day before, pitched it into about a...

I expect there will be a lot of replies that say "mine". :p Though for me, that's certainly not the case. I've only just tried the first bottle from my second respectable all grain batch last night.

Howdy. So, my brew partner and I are still new to all-grain. We're still doing stovetop and have a small kettle, so we've been limited to 2.5 gallons for all grain up to this point. We brewed half of this: http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/imperial-stout-all-grain-kit.html last week. I...

Hello. I know there's a lot of info about washing and reusing yeast, but I still had some questions about what the best method would be if I want to reuse the yeast right away. I'm currently brewing little (1-2 gallon) batches. Because of the small volume, I want to minimize the amount of trub...

Ah, yes. I forgot about straining. I might just skip the straining step this time as a tradeoff for even yeast distribution.

Hello. I did my first all grain batch last night. 1 gallon ipa of my own (very simple recipe). I'm planning to make 1-2 gallon batches at home in my little kitchen somewhat regularly. The problem is that I only have one 1 gallon jug and two .5 gallon jugs (growlers). If I ever wanted to...

Do you actually zip the bag? Does it cover the whole jar, or do you just cinch it up around the jars mouth?