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My second beer ever was made with this recipe and it's a wonderful beer. We used Düsseldorf yeast instead and we tea-hopped half the batch with some Citra pellet hops and the result is amazing. By tea-hopping, I mean cheating dry hopping by making a hops tea on about a cup of water: we had the...

Final update: The stout has a weird taste and both the beer and cider could cause a bit of headaches due to the type of alcohol produced at higher temperatures. The weird taste from the stout also came to the wheat powder used for bottling, which I will not use again from a subjective point of view.

Cheers, I'll do, now the cider is back stable at lower temp, so one day might not be the end of the world, but what a surprise. I'll post the details if things end up alright!

Hi, On the third day of the second fermentation of our first brew ever, it got out of control hitting 90 degrees f. It is a stout using WLP004 irish ale yeast. Before the transfer on the second fermenter, I got 1,010 on the hydrometer and the first week of fermentation was around recommended...