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ok, i posted a few days back on a small mold contamination I got in my secondary. a small white patch (3 cm across). I tried siphoning it off (skimming the film off is impossible as it's in my glass carboy) and thought I'd succeeded. apparently I succeeded in spreading the mold to other surface...

hey guys so I last night attempted to make a starter yeast culture from a bottle of Chimay (Blue). All I did was miz 1/2 cup DME with 2 cups water, boiled it for 10mins, let it cool to 70F and poured it straight in the recently opened and almost completely finished bottle of Chimay (thinking...

hey lads so I have made some extremely cool labels for my beers. ok, so they are crappy, but they are labels. any advice on how to put them on the bottles? do you just print them out on label paper and stick em on?

evening lads and ladies so my first batch went beautifully - one more week in the bottles and it'll be ready. I tried a pint of it whilst bottling and fell in love with my own beer :) it went so smoothly, something was bound to go wrong in the second batch. I'd brewed and primary fermented...

have actually brewed a disgusting beer? what style was it, why did it turn out so bad? did anyone else try it and pretend to like it?

hey lads n ladies so my first brew has been in the secondary (glass carboy) for exactly a week now. bubbling is all but done and the gelatin I added seems to have pulled tons of the yeast out of solution. having never done this before it was interesting to me to note the distinct change in...

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13434086,00.html thats a strong beer. i thought you could only brew something like 14% alcohol, no more, as it starts to pickle the yeast otherwise?

so I just finished brewing a batch of american pale ale, see recipe below.... however when I took an OG reading it said 1.026! The predicted OG from www.beertools.com and my own calculated OG should be up around 1.042! Even if you remove the specialty grains and only add 5lbs of the 6lb...

my gas stove on its highest temperature literally sits at the perfect temp, it stays right on a nice rolling boil, not getting hot enough to boil over. now if I could just get the damn grain out from under the cupboards before the girlfriend sees.....

note to self: when beating the life out of a bag of specialty grains - make sure the bag doesnt burst. this tends to send millions of tiny grain kernels flying in every possible dimension, including eyes, ears, toilets three doors down. :rolleyes:

does anyone have any idea how to find out the water profiles of various cities/breweries around the world or is that stuff a well kept secret? I'm a geochemist/microbiologist you see and it wouldn't be hard for me to make a batch of water with the same profile as say the Urquell Brewery (which I...

is cold conditioning the secondary really that helpful and how should I go about it? I am a stickler for clear beers, dont want much stuff floating around in there. If I did, I would have taken up fish tanks instead. I've added gelatin to my secondary and it seems to be pulling loads of yeast...

ok, so my first batch is happily doing it's thing in the secondary right now, everything went fairly smoothly apart from the slow initial fermentation. I am just wondering if my steeping procedure was correct given that I followed a book's directions and have seen other people posting different...

hey guys so the bubbling in my primary is still fairly quick after 6 days of fermenting (around a bubble every 5 secs, slowed from the initial bubble every two secs). MY question is what is the general rule of thumb for racking to secondary? Is it: a) rack after about a week to avoid letting...

I brewed my first batch and its in the primary now, bubbling away. I think I may have gone a little overboard on malt though - I thought I'd be adventurous and learn through experience rather than following a set recipe..... I used 6lbs light liquid malt extract and 2lbs of amber DME, plus...

hey everyone, first post on here my first bacth of beer has been brewed and has been bubbling away for a couple of days in the primary quite happily (well actually it was a slow starter - 48hrs to get going), I was just wondering what an acceptable rate of bubbling is? It's all well and good to...