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I just prepared everything for bottling, pulled out my lemongrass beer which was brewed just under 3 weeks ago. (Assumed it would be ready) Noticed that the airlock was bubbling once/every 30secs still. This concerned me so I checked the gravity and it was 1.015. My sheet says it should be...

Not getting a response from the original thread. Have all of the ingredients sitting here ready to brew, but I have no idea if I want to shoot for 5.5 gallons of wort or 6 gallons of wort. I think its 6, but maybe this means 6 after you add lime aid. (you add half gallon lime aid on day 3 of...

Want to order the ingredients for my first all grain batch. Scratching my head on what type of pale malt to get. Ingredients for this recipe (Lemon-lime hefe) call for pale malt, but there must be a dozen types of pale malt to choose from. Is there a standard choice? Should I go with the...

I have been using my basement for storing all of my bottled beer. Normally it is at 65F and this has worked fine for my first couple batches. Lately it has been sitting at 58-62F and I just added two Belgian beers made with WL400 down there. Is this too cold? It says the ideal temp is more like...

I'm using Kolsch wyeast to brew a light lager. Because that's all I could get from the LBS. I've had it at 55F for 3 weeks now and am playing with the idea of lagering it at 40 F for another couple weeks. I'm wondering if I will get any benefit from doing this or if I should just go ahead and...

This is my second time washing yeast. My first time worked great, everything matched what I saw in pictures posted on this site I washed a safe ale 05. however, this time I am trying to wash a WL400 and the trub layer isn't forming. Last week I tried washing the yeast from the primary. The...

I have my first lager under way. I made a 1 gallon starter for it about a week ago and the only thing I had that would work is a 5 gallon carboy. I put it in there sanitized everything and added airlock. I am steeping the grains right now and brought the starter from 50 F room and am warming to...

Has anyone ever read thru the reviews on the AHS website? I'm about to have 10 days off work and was trying to pick out a couple kits to brew and after reading the reviews for about 10 beers I'm starting to wonder if what I'm reading is bull****. Every single review is over the top positive...

Looking to brew my first lager. I have a spare room that doesn't get much heat and is currently swinging from 50 to 60 F. I know this is about how cold it needs to be to brew lager, but what I am wondering if a daily 5-10 degree temperature swing will lead to off flavors? Has anyone tried what I...

I ordered a Blue Moon clone from AHS recently and am about to add washed safeale US-05 that I used on my sunset wheat clone. However, I started to read a lot about how much yeast can affect the flavor of the beer. Initially I assumed the effect would be very minor unless you used a yeast from a...