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Okay! Soooo, I'm almost at about 10 days in the secondary. The brew is starting to clear up and is smelling great. I took a little taste test yesterday and it is really amazing. I just hope I can duplicate it in the future. At any rate I have an extremely naive rookie question: I have never let...

So the airlock on the secondary has been dead for a few days. Should I just leave the brew in there for a few more weeks? Or is whatever was going to happen already happened?

70-72 degrees

More details: Recipe: 6 lb gold lme 3 lb gold dme .5 Crystal .5 Cara-Pils 2 oz Amarillo 1 oz Cascade White Labs California Ale Yeast (liquid vial) OG was 1.050. I did not take a reading when racking to secondary. I used normal sanitation methods - I can't imagine anything went wrong there...

So I just racked to secondary a couple of days ago. When I opened my primary bucket, the wort smelled off. Like rotten fruit! There was a heavy foam on the top, but that is not abnormal. I tasted the wort it tasted like spoiled sweet tea (if you've ever had that you know what I am talking...

Thanks for the feedback. My OG was 1.050. Which was less than what I was shooting for, but it's okay. I think I might try the dry hopping this time just for fun. It sounds like it might go good with this particular brew.

Ok, so I am brewing a pale ale (extract) and used 6 lbs LME and 3 lbs DME- opposed to my normal 6 lb, 1 1 lb recipes. I wanted to try something with a little higher ABV this go round. I used 1 oz. amarillo at start of boil, 1 oz. amarillo halfway, and finished with 1 oz cascade. My fear is...