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Lalvin D47 @ 64 F

fermentor, bottle, glass, all has the same odor... it smells like really strong alcohol, it overpowers any fruit smell. I haven't noticed it mellowing with age. It tastes fine. The aroma is the issue.

I've been brewing beer for years. Last year I decided to try making a mead. I had never tried mead before, but it sounded good. I've now done 3 meads - JAOM, a lemonade mead, and a grape mead. The flavor of all 3 turned out fine, but the aroma is a bit off putting. I'd describe it as...

My OG was 1.058, spent 7 days in primary, then 7 days in secondary (w/berries), and now 2 full weeks in tertiary. For the last 2 weeks my gravity has been 1.017... gonna give it one more week, maybe 2, before I bottle... gravity just seems high. Anyone else have a FG this high?

Definitely don't think you need to stir the whole 60 mins. I normally stir in the DME and LME, and a few seconds during each hops addition (although I'm not sure that's necessary). Yesterday I brewed an IPA and decided not to stir in the hops additions at all... I did have a problem with some...

I had this in my primary for a week and the airlock never bubbled. I was a little worried, but the gravity dropped from 1.058 to 1.026 after the first 4 days, so obviously it was working... Racked onto 7lbs of strawberries after a week (wish I'd of used a bucket, but all I had ready was a...

Not a good night for me. I had broken my old trusty auto siphon, so I ordered a "Sterile Siphon Starter"... same principle as this technique, except you blow into a filter. The tutorial video made it look so easy. Try as I might, I could NOT get the siphon to hold. I finally got so pissed off I...

Thanks for all the help! I used more for the 60m to make up for the lower %, but the 20m and 5m called for .5 oz saaz 5.8% and all I had was 3.4%... didn't have enough to add extra, so I used what I had. Hopefully it won't turn out too bad. :)

I've been brewing from kits for a while now, but I've decided to try an extract recipe I found on this forum. I live in a rural area with no LHBS, so I order most ingredients online. The hops' alpha acid percentages on the recipe are higher than I can find available online. So, noob question: is...

Googled "home brew recipes"

Oxyclean. Just put dos equis, saranac, and grolsch bottles in a bucket with oxyclean for a few hours, and the labels all literally fell off... no scrubbing.

Thought I'd give this a try. Started a one gallon batch last night... Just realized I used 3 lbs of honey, not 3.5. Okay to add the other half pound to my top off water?