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So I finished my Guinness clone. The taste is really solid, but whenever I open a bottle, it is fine for about 40 seconds than starts foaming like crazy and overflowing. What would lead to that?

Hi all- I'm ready to bottle my Guinness clone. The recipe calls for moving the beer to a bottling bucket and that's when the sugar/water mix goes in. I'd like to just bottle from the fermenter. Can I just pour the sugar/water mix into the fermenter before bottling and give it a couple spoons...

Just finished brewing a Guinness Clone by Learn to Brew and put it in for fermentation. This is my 3rd attempt, had one good and one bad Anyway this is the first one I used the hydrometer. My results were: 32 SP. GR 5% potential ABV 10 Brix/Plato Is that good? How should I read that Sent...

Hi all - so I am 1-for-2 in Brewing so far. First Brooklyn Beer Kit IPA was solid, second "Whiny the Youngster" (Pliny clone) was awful. I think a lot had to do with the fact that I didn't chill the wort quick enough, and pitched the yeast in too warm of wort. The final taste was like spoiled...

Hello all - so, I am doing my 2nd batch now, it is the Whiny the Younger from Jasper's Brewing. The last beer I brewed was in a Gallon Carboy, and this one is much bigger a recipe so I upgraded my kit to a 5 Gallon bucket (The Ale Pail) for Primary Fermentation. My question is, how do I know...

Hi all- very excited to brew my first home brew this weekend, when my Brooklyn Brew Kit arrives. I've read a lot of posts on here and other sites, and was just asking for any more tips and hints that may be out there? I purchased the IPAD brew kit. Looks like sanitizing everything is the first...