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I've had a few comments from judges that my ciders have to much astringency. Any idea how or where it comes from?

I want to make an imperial pumpkin but instead of adding sugars or more light dme I was thinking about just doubling to original recipe ingredients to get the ABV up to where I want it. Is this an ok technique?

Just what it says. Imp stout from this year just exploded in my cellar. 66-68 degrees pretty steadily. Any ideas? I've stored beers down there for years and never had this happen. That particular beer probably hasn't been disturbed for months and all of the sudden today a side of the bottle...

So I bought the Smashing Pumpkin kit from Northern Brewer. You can see the recipe here http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/beerkits/SmashingPumpkinEX.pdf And I am wanting to raise the ABV by about 2% from what it is just by using the included ingredients (5% or so). I ordered some...

So I've done 2 batches with a new aluminum pot (7.5 gallon size) and on the bottom of the pot where it touches the stand the metal is burnt off in the pattern of the half circle pieces of metal it sits on. I'm assuming this is just from being really hot but it doesn't seem right that the...