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I recently brewed a honey ale from extract with an OG of 1.055 and an expected FG of 1.012 or lower. After about 2 1/2 weeks of fermentation the gravity had come to a halt at 1.019. I tasted the sample and it was still very thick and sweet/unfermented. I called my LHBS for advice and the guy...

I recently posted a thread about my first batch a beer(a moose drool clone) a few weeks ago. Long story short I screwed up on my measurements and ended up with about 3 1/2 gallons of beer instead of 5. A lot of people said that it's not a big deal and would just make the beer a bit stronger and...

I just racked my honey ale into the secondary fermenter about a week after brew day. The three days prior to racking it I had took a gravity reading each day, all coming in at 1.020(which is a lot higher than I was hoping for). So before I racked it, I boiled a few cups of water with about 8...

Tomorrow I will be brewing the very popular White House honey ale. I realize that the honey added in this brew is nothing more than just a sugar for the fermentation, producing little to no honey flavor from using it. I've decided I want to try and give this beer a sweet/honey kick to it. The...

Tomorrow I will be brewing the very popular White House honey ale. I realize that the honey added in this brew is nothing more than just a sugar for the fermentation, producing little to no honey flavor from using it. I've decided I want to try and give this beer a sweet/honey kick to it. The...

Hello all. I'm new to the forum and I'm also a first time brewer. I look forward to becoming a part of the brewing community here and learning from you all. So...my problem. I recently just brewed my very first batch of beer(caribou slobber). My girlfriend bought me the deluxe brewing kit...