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Two batches dry-hopped for over 14 days have black, along with green and brown, hop residue rings. Is this normal for longer dry hops? Please help!

I dry-hopped two batches, one for 14 and one 16 days. As usual, both fermenters have a greenish, brown line of dry-hop residue at beer level. Besides being the typical green-to-brown, some of the residue is black. I've never dry hopped for 14 days, and have never seen this. The pale ales...

I thought my full-boil light-malt extract brew never took off due to 100% lack of air lock activity. After 36 hours I opened the bucket to see a huge dome of krausen -- what a relief. My plastic fermentation bucket clearly had a leak. Two days after leak discovery I racked to secondary. My...

I pitched Safale s-05 at 95 to 100 F into my 5 gallon light LME batch. Should I repitch at a more appropriate temperature? Ooops! Help! Thanks.