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I know it's not an authentic lambic. It says it's their take on one. How bout the phenol part though

Had one of these Sam Adams offerings yesterday. Though I enjoyed the beer the odor and taste (minus the cranberry) reminded me of a bad batch of beer I brewed that I wrote off as ruined by chlorophenols ( it never improved with time, got worse actually). I realize there's a difference between...

That would be cool. Let's try to hook that up sometime. Do you guys have a homebrew club over there? I'm going to try to get in with this one in Macon and I'll let you know about it too.

That's one thing I have done A LOT of. Reading. Palmer, papazian, this forum, hours at Barnes and Noble. I feel like I've got a great handle on the education side of it. That's what makes it so frigging frustrating. I'm doing things right and things are turning out wrong. I understand that...

Thanks to all. I've found a local homebrew club that meets rarely but at least they meet. bdaddy, thanks for that info too. I can also drive 1 hour north to another club AND there is a homebrew store there. Will do that soon. Stormrider, I'm going to get a new primary. Mine is a...

First off, you have to be able to handle really bad tasting beer to agree to this job! I'll ship a couple to you. My batting average with homebrewing is really starting to SUCK. All extract kits from Midwest. Muntons Dry Yeast on all but the wheat. started sanitizing with bleach, now use...

Here's a few more specifics (albeit long-winded): I did use a bottling bucket, boiled sugar + water, added to the bucket, and then siphoned. I opened my first bottle at 3 weeks to try, very little carb. I waited another week, no improvement so I put a heater in the room, swirled the bottles a...

I have a lemon coriander wheat that has been trying to carb for about 3 months now. It was my second attempt at homebrewing. I received a 5 oz. corn sugar packet with my kit and I measured out 3/4 cup of it (as I thought that was the proper amount) and added it to the bottling bucket. Had I...

Great. Thanks for the feedback. I'll see what 5-6 weeks in the bottle can do to salvage this batch. I try one at three though :)

Changed pics. A bit blurry but much bigger

Posted on this Newcastle clone before but after seeing this I needed to see if this was normal. I thought I had identified the terrible aroma and worse taste to phenols from sanitizing with bleach and not giving a good rinse. I racked this beer too early to secondary and thus after a little...

What is a "son of fermentation" chiller?

I did steep some specialty grains (crushed at Midwest) but I was careful with temps and times. Sad to say, yes. Primary and all equipment used on brewday. Before racking to secondary I got some StarSan and PBW so I used it for that step but if bleach is the culprit it was already bad by then...

Okay i know I'm supposed to relax, not worry, and have a homebrew but...I'm a little worried and I don't have any homebrew yet:) I moved a Newcastle Clone to secondary too early, I had to swirl the beer around to get it to kick up fermentation again. It did but not much. FG was supposed to...

Weird question I guess. Couldn't find it anywhere else in the forum. Maybe I'm missing it but is it a problem if my primary smells like the last beer I brewed? I brewed a wheat with Danstar Munich and the smell in the bucket was strong even after washing and sanitizing. I went ahead a week...

Definitely. I read about another recipe (here i think, Citrus Weizen) that used 4 oranges, 4 lemons. Reviews seemed great. Thought I'd give it a shot!

Hello all. Newbie here. 2nd attempt at my favorite new hobby has raised a question. I brewed a Lemon Coriander Wheat from a Midwest kit which called for the zest of 1 medium lemon. I decided (possibly ill-advised now) to experiment with additional zest. Added zest of 2 oranges, 2 lemons...