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My pint glasses got ran through the dishwasher. Fingerprints show up on them really easy so I know there is a film on them. Is there a way to remove it? I read that it can kill head retention so I was curious.

Well here it is. My Fat Tire clone is delicious, even only 4 days after bottling and warm. Thats when this pic was taken. Now it is 10 days in bottles and I am sipping on number 2. Luckily my SWMBO is pushing me to start kegging so this will be the last batch of bottles... and these wont last...

I have 5 bottles of Dead Guy and I want to use the yeast from those. Can I just pour some malta goya on top of the yeast in the bottle?

AND IT WAS MINE!!! I bottled my Fat Tire clone on Saturday and I just couldnt resist giving it a try tonight, especially since my Hefe turned out..... not bueno. After 4 days in the bottle it tastes delicious, carbonation is really close to perfect, and the head even stayed with it all the way...

I brewed up the AHS Double Chocolate Stout this weekend. Fermentation just calmed down enoughto take the blow-off tube off and pop in the airlock. The bucket that the drain end of the blow-off was in had quite a bit of sediment that tasted like cocoa powder. Have I lost the Cocoa flavor? The...

Is it possible to over fill your airlock (3 piece) so that your beer begins to carbonate in the fermenter? It seems that if you were fermenting in a 7 gallon bucket and had 5 gal of beer, then after initial fermentation there wouldnt be enough pressure inside the vessel to blow the top off the...

1: Before I bottle should I stir the priming sugar into the beer or is the swirl from siphoning into the bottling bucket sufficient? 2: I am brewing a Double Chocolate Stout but all I have left for primary is a 5gal carboy. Will this be ok with a blowoff tube? 3: I have some Rogue Dead...

I have a hefe thats been bottled for 13 days now. I opened up one (second one so far) to see how carbonated it was. Since its my first brew I just want to see/taste the different stages of the process. I was surprised to find that the one I opened had zero carbonation, same as the first one I...

I want to add pomegranate to a brew soon because it is my favorite fruit. How should I add it though? Crush it and throw in at end of boil? Rack onto it in secondary? It will be fresh fruit from the grocery store so I assume that sanitizing it should be a priority. I am thinking of adding it to...

I am thinking of getting into kegging soon and I have been looking around online. There are just so many choices, I would rather hear from some people that know what they are doing rather than wingin it on my own.

I have a Hefe that has been in bottles for a week. I cracked one open when I got home from work today, it was room temp, and it was completely flat. There looks to be some yeast at the top and there is sediment in the bottom of all the bottles. I used the correct amount of priming sugar and I...

I see what looks to be a brett or lactic bacteria infection. It has been in primary for 2 weeks tomorrow and I am going to rack into secondary. Are there any techniques to racking from under an infection? Any tricks or anything? Also I read that you should drink the beer sooner if you had an...

I want to buy the Chocolate Raspberry Stout from AHS but I want to alter it a bit and I'm just wondering how it might work. I want to add oats to the steeping grains (I'm using the extract kit) to add some mouth feel. What would be a good amount to use? Also I want to bump up the ABV and...

I am thinking about taking lessons for either drums or guitar. I can play guitar a little and I have messed around on a drum kit and can keep a beat but I want to be good at one of them. I am leaning towards the drums but I just dont know yet. Which is more fun?

I dont have a hydrometer and from what I have been reading the bubbles are not a good indicator. Its a Bavarian Hefe and it has been in primary for 2 weeks. Actually I was planning on bottling at 17 days. So is there something I can look for to make an educated guess that its ready to bottle...

I have a Bavarian Hefe that I plan on bottling next tuesday, which would be 18 days in primary. I have read that Hefes are meant to be "enjoyed" fresher, or with less aging. I was thinking it would be rdy to go 3 weeks after bottling. Do I have my timeline right? Is there a negative to having it...

Is there a way to re calculate an AG recipe to make it extract? I see a lot of cool recipes but I dont have the means to do AG batches just yet. Just wondering if there were an easy way to convert the recipes over.

My Hefe is on day 8 of fermentation and there is a rather strong nail polish remover type smell? WTF

So I just got done brewing my Fat Tire clone. Everything went great..... until the end. I just got a new 7.5 gal primary plastic bucket... Wort went in, yeast went in, lid went on, RUBBER STOPPER WENT IN!!! It had been sitting in the starsan so it was slippery and when I pushed it into the hole...

I am about to brew a clone batch I got from AHS and I have never tried the original. I read some reviews that its really good so I decided to give it a try. Just how good is it?