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I'm 14 batches in and I have yet to be able to produce a beer with perfect clarity. I use whirlfloc and primary for 3-4 weeks. I've tried adding gelatin and waiting a week with only minor effect. I'm not dry hopping. I've both filtered wort and dumped everything. I've thought about longer...

I made the below beer today (batch #10!) and encountered massive trub for the first time. There are multiple possible culprits, and they may be collaborating: I used a bit more whirlfloc than I usually would, a little over a half tablet for 2.75gal batch, I kept a more roiling boil going than...

I'm trying to make a highly estery and phenolic weizen using WB-06. After 3 days it was fantastic, and now it's cooling down. The problem is it went like this: 1.061 - OG 1.019 - day 4 1.017 - day 6 1.010 - day 9 It's like a plateau then it dived down fast. I want to bottle quickly...

I've made an imperial nut brown and it had a smoky flavor that got lost in conditioning and it was a bit too sweet. I've made a smoked stout and I loved it. I want to combine the two and ramp up the ABV to get a heavy, nutty, malty, biscuity, smoky big brown. Here's what I'm thinking, what do...

I have an english IPA inspired beer that's been going for three weeks in primary. FG is 100% settled at 1.010, ABV around 7%. Compared to the FG reading I took at the end of the first week, the 3 week sample has much less hop flavor and aroma and I'm considering what to do. Clarity is not good...

I'm looking to make my first foray into mashing with a smoked stout partial mash. I'm looking to mimic BIAB style, with what is essentially a prolonged steeping in a bag and some sparging of the bag once it's drained. My goal is to make a smoky dry stout. I'd love any tips or feedback. I...

So far I've done a kit, and two very lightly hopped brews (pumpkin ale and cherry graff). I wanted to start exploring hops, and Hallertau sounded interesting for an English style IPA. Any thoughts? 5 gal batch (3 gal boil). Steep: 8oz Crystal 40L 8oz Victory Boil 60min: 3 lb Light...

I'm trying to make a sweet cherry ale for my girlfriend, and I'd like to not have to sweeten the beer after killing the yeast at the end, so I'm trying to see if anyone has any ideas on how sweet I can go before the unfermentable sugars start making it too thick/weird? I'd love to hit something...

Here's what I wrote down for my first brew so far. Am I missing anything that would be good to document? I know there are a lot of procedural mistakes/misunderstandings, and my second batch is fermenting now with a lot of improvements. I'm looking for suggestions on what I should be writing...

I did the below recipe, and when I took my first FG reading attempt after a week, there was a really nice smoky flavor that was very obvious. After another week I bottled, and the smoky flavor was gone. What can I do to get the smoky flavor to keep through to the bottles? ~3 gallons of...

I may have had a few too many beers before I started bottling. I dumped the priming sugar directly into the bottling bucket (no water mix) before siphoning and didn't stir it very well. I first noticed there was a problem when the beer actually started smelling sweeter towards the end of...

I'm going to be moving and I'm wondering if anyone has any experience moving fermenters? I'm thinking that taking a break from having an active primary is a good idea since they're going to be agitated quite a bit, and that secondaries (which I don't usually use) would travel better? I'm...