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Three days ago, a friend and I made a belgian ale, OG 1.050, using White Star Belgian liquid yeast. Because it was kind of a last minute thing, we didn't have time to do a starter. Everything during the brewing part went fine, except for the part where my friend accidentally pushed the solid...

Hey everyone. Newbie brewer here. I just finished making my second batch of beer, and it's come out undercarbonated. I opened my first bottle, and got a small hiss (about half of how much a commercial beer hisses), and there's some carbonation. The beer went flat pretty quickly. I'm not...

Hey everyone -- I made my first batch of homebrew a few months ago, and the results were not quite as expected. I was brewing a batch of mild brown ale from a B3 kit, modified slightly to increase the alcohol level. The brewing day process went well -- no major issues. Put the brew into my...

Hi all. I brewed up my very first batch of homebrew six weeks ago. I fermented my 5G of brown ale for 3 weeks in a 6 (or 6.5, I forget) gallon carboy -- everything went well. Then it came time to bottle. I boiled 4 oz of corn sugar in some water, poured it into the bottom of my bottling...

Hi all. I brewed my first batch of beer 2.5 weeks ago, and took a hydrometer sample today to ensure fermentation was done. Original OG: 1.044 Final OG: 1.011 Right where I expected things to be. After taking the hydrometer sample, I had my first taste of homebrew beer -- and it wasn't...

My first brew has been in the primary for about 2.5 weeks now, and I'm planning to bottle it on Thursday evening. It's spent those 2.5 weeks sitting in a closet in the back of my house. I want to move it to my garage so I can get it up off the ground for siphoning to the bottling bucket, and...

I'm going to be making my first batch of beer tomorrow (using a partial-boil), and I've been reading both the instructions that came with my ingredient kit (from B3) and those in Palmer's "How to brew". They are almost identical except for one thing: 1) B3's instructions say to put 2 gallons...

Another newbie question here: I've recently been doing a lot of reading about full vs partial boils -- one of the primary benefits to a full volume boils seems to be the better hops utilization due to the lower gravity of the wort. However, if you're doing extract brewing, why not just...

Hey everyone -- new brewer here -- I just bought my equipment yesterday, as well as a kit recipe for brown ale. Upon getting it home and doing some calculations, it looks like the brown ale is going to turn out lighter than I had been anticipating. It's got: 5 lbs ultralight malt extract...

Hey everyone. I'm an aspiring home brewer, looking to get into the hobby. I've read a couple of books and a lot of forum posts in various places, and have a very good idea of how to proceed. However, I still have a few questions that I have been unable to find answers to. I am hoping someone...