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For the second time in a row my bottles sound like a cat fart when I open them! Don't get it, i follow the recipe, give it a solid 5 weeks in the fermenter, disolve the called for amount of corn sugar, mix well and bottle as quickly as possible. Once was a kit from the LHBS and the other was...

I brewed a partial mash out of Zymurgy, Cream Swill, and i have a question about my technique. The recipe call to mash in a bag at 150 for an hour then sparge with 2.5 qt at 175 by putting the grain bag in a colander and pouring the sparge water over it. Since i was planning on a full boil i...

I just put a cream ale in the fermenter and just bottled a belgian white. The belgian formed krausen for about 12 hours and the cream ale has formed none at all, though both bubbled away nicely for about 24 hours at about 75 degrees. Is this cause for alarm, is krausen always so short...

So i did my first partial mash tonight. I did not filter out the break material. There seems to be a lot of it, there is about an 1.5 - 2 inches that has settled in the bottom of my carboy. Should I worry about this making off flavors and affecting the total volume of my wort?

Hey all I'm Morgan, new to the forum and fairly new to home brewing -four batches. Here is my question, after I cool my wort to 70 degrees or so, to get oxygen into the to wort for the yeast I have been pouring the cooled wort back and forth between the brew kettle and primary fermenter to...