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Did you use whole leaf hops? I've had seeds float to the top. They were white and covered with yeast. Freaked me out too. But it was just hop seeds. I've thought about trying to get some whole leaf citra to look for seeds. It would be awesome to get a plant going.

Do the spots look fuzzy? May be mold if so. I'd bottle it and see how it tastes after a few weeks. You'll know right away if it went bad. A guy in my homebrew club brewed a batch that went bad. There was no denying it from the second you smelled and tasted it. It was sour as could be.

Updating: I've had two people tell me this is the best beer I have ever brewed. They are probably right. This is a fantastic recipe. Haven't brewed a batch with S-04 yet, but I'll update when I do.

5 Gallons Citra Pale Ale (extract) 5 Gallons Mosaic Pale Ale (extract) 5 Gallons Revolutionary Rye Clone (all grain) 5 Gallons Citra Pale Ale (all grain) 5 Gallons Mosaic Pale Ale (all grain) 5 Gallons Maibock (all grain) 5 Gallons Black Mosaic IPA (all grain) 5 Gallons Gallons Red Lager...

Cheers EdWort. This is a fantastic porter. I used some whole leaf galena hops for bittering because we had them on hand.

Brewed this up yesterday. Used mosaic hops in place of the amarillos. OG was 1.063. Right at 5 gallons into the fermenter. Did a 90 minute mash because my temp was about 148. Cooled it down to 68 and pitched US-05. It isn't bubbling yet, but I'm sure it will be by tonight. I'm going to dry hop...

I'd say at most you would have 5.5 gallons at the end of 90 minutes. Sounds like a good thing to me. If you added at 60 and 5, no change in IBU's.

I do five gallon batches on the stove too. I don't think you will need that much more time to boil. 90 minutes will probably do it. Put a gallon of water into your kettle at a time. Then take a piece of bamboo put it in the kettle and notch it at each gallon. Then you can just put it in the...

A spigot and thermometer on the kettle are nice. Not necessary, but nice. Are you batch sparging? You probably need around 5 gallons of sparge water. Your recipe says 7 gallons total with 1.4 gallons absorbed by the grains. That would only leave 5.6 in the kettle, not 6.6. How are you boiling...

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Both are looking pretty good. I'm going to start up my second batch tomorrow. Going for a three gallon batch this time. I have a one gallon batch I plan to bottle on 12/6/12. Hoping to be able to save some of it for Christmas. I used bread yeast at first. Then one week in, I made a one gallon...

Let us know how the batches come out. I've read Wild Fermentation and have wanted to try a wild fermented mead since reading it. But I can't get past the thought of wasting precious honey if it comes out bad. Especially when dry yeast is so cheap. Hope the wild ferment comes out good for you.

Seems like it will just be a little bit drier.

Two weeks ago I made a variation of this recipe. This is my first attempt at mead. I used 2.5 lbs of honey and an orange. I used bread yeast and a little cider yeast (I made a cider one week ago and pitched some of wyeast cider yeast into this mead). I foolishly didn't take an OG reading. I took...

That is exactly what I thought when I saw that picture. I had something similar happen to me with Safale US-04. The problem was me. I didn't get the lid on the bucket good enough. Lifted the lid and immediately saw signs of fermentation. Got the lid on better and the air lock started popping away.

A guy at Beer and Winemakers Warehouse in Hartford actually told me that he never boils the priming sugar and just dumps it in like you did. I did that with the Rogue Brutal Bitter clone that I bought from that store. The beer was fine and there was no issue with uneven carbonation. That is the...