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I just Brewed a honey wheat ale yesterday and checked the carboy a bit ago, and there is a downright weird smell coming from it. I'm not sure if it's a possible contamination, or just the way this yeast (wyeast 1010 American wheat) ferments but would like to know what everyone else's...

I want to make a brown ale using flaked oats and make it reminiscent of an oatmeal cookie, so I wanted to find a good yeast that may give that raisiny character. Any suggestions? I feel like I've read that the English ale yeast strains will work for what I'm looking for, just not sure if any one...

So I'm not sure the best location to use for fermenting my beer. If I keep in in my basement, the temp is gonna keep it in the low 60's, but if I move upstairs into my house the temp jumps up to about 76-78 when cementing(using wyeast American ale yeast). I would think the lower temp may be...

Just as the title says, I'm trying to determine how much spare water I should use. The grain bill is as follows: 15lbs 2 row 1lb caramel 20l The OG of this brew is supposed to be 1.089 and I had added 6.25 gallons of water for my mash. Thanks!

Has anyone ever ordered the same pre packaged kits from an online site(like northern Brewer) in extract and all grain versions before? Just wondering what the taste difference would really be. Want to order the Hopslam clone from NB but this would be my first foray into AG and it seems like so...

I want to try all grain, and this seems like a decent segue way into that without having to purchase a lot of extra equipment. I want to try and brew a Hopslam clone, but it calls for 16 lbs of grain. My question is what size kettle would I need for this? I know my 5 gallon likely isn't going to...

What's the best and most reasonably priced placed to purchase grains, hops, yeast, etc.? I've been using northern Brewer for my last few batches and have no complaints to speak of, but was just wondering what other options are out there I'm not aware of.

I brewed a milk stout yesterday with an OG of 1.051, I pitched a packet of the danstar British ale dry yeast but the wort was a little warmer than I had planned (78-80) when I added it so I put the beer down in my basement to cool it down but then forgot about it and it stayed overnight and...

I'm going to brew a chocolate milk stout with an OG of 1.051 tomorrow and was going to pitch dry yeast because I don't have a starter prepped yet. My question is this- would one packet be sufficient? Or do I need 2? I would actually prefer to use liquid yeast, but I wouldn't be able to make my...

I have a IIPA kit Im making and wanted to try the method of only adding a portion of the LME at the beginning of the boil. Does this only apply to LME? Or DME as well? Should I only add 1/2 the required DME AND LME at the beginning at the rest at flameout?

I have a 5 gallon batch of brow ale that I would like to add a coconut flair to but I'm not sure how much to add. I certainly don't want an overpowering coconut taste, more of a background flavor. Does anyone have any experience with adding this to a brown ale with good success?

So I'm going to order a new big mouth bubbler from NB and was trying to decide which route to go. Glass seems more durable but the plastic one obviously will be lighter and cheaper, plus I can get it with a built in valve. Any real downside to plastic?

So I've never created a yeast starter and want to try it for next brew, but I don't have a stir plate or flask. Any suggestions for creating a starter without those? Thanks and sorry if this is a noob question

So I've purchased a chocolate milk stout extract kit from NB but wanted to add coconut flavor to it. To get the flavor I was thinking about buying some of the shredded coconut they sell in the baking aisle at grocery stores, but do I need to soak this in vodka first to sterilize? If so, do I...

So as it says in the title, I have a stout that I brewed back at the end of October and bottled about 1.5 months ago and it still isn't carbonating at all. I feel like I may have messed something up along the way, and I just got a legging system for Christmas so I was wondering if I could I move...