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So clayton, does the kausen clear, or do you bottle it with this weird leftover krausen?

Yup, it's sitting in a dark space in my dining room in Northern California about 70 degrees.

I've been fermenting a california common beer (otherwise known as a steam beer) for about 11 days. The fermentation went well, but other beers have cleared their krausen after about 10 days. This beer has a weird krausen with foam above the beer and some foam below the beer. fermentation has...

Yup, I assumed those two, so: 10. Your done cleaning when you can't smell wort - then it's time to rinse and sanitize. Buy some oxyclean and use it in the brewpot. I have a method of cleaning the brewpot completely, then heating up some water (or using some of the wort chiller output) and...

All, I've learned a few things in brewing my first 5 beers and I wanted to share some observations: 1. Start a brewing Journal or Notebook - If you don't know what mistakes you make, you can't stop making them. When using a kit I have the kit instructions, but I've also typed out my own...

thanks! One more noob becoming smarter!

So of my two problems, you've solved one, thanks I'll return the DME and replace it with Cara-Pils! My second problem, other than being and annoying Noob is what impact replacing Crystal 40 malt with Crystal 45 would be? Thanks, -Bill

I want to brew a steam beer this weekend and Palmer's book says: 1/2 lb of Dextrin Malt and 2/3 lbs of Crystal 40 Malt. I went to the local home brew store and mistakenly asked for Malto Dextrin and ended up with Amber DME. I looked at the grain bins and couldn't find Dextrin Malt and the...

Thanks for all your suggestions!!

I'm confused about when to transfer a lager from the primary to the secondary. Is it simply when you measure with your hydrometer that your 2/3 of the way to terminal gravity, or should you wait for the krausen to clear? I used a kit from morebeer and they didn't list a terminal gravity. I...

Thanks, that's very helpful!

As I get into all grain brewing, what is the advantage of getting a software package that I can't do with a recipe and a calculator?

Just to check I just to a hydrometer reading and it 1.041 so I think I haven't seen any activity. Given the size of the sample I probably don't have many reading left. :-) Smelled sweet and yeasty.

No bubbles, and no foam.

I'm trying to debug my beer. :-) On Sunday I made a Pilsner Lager and an English IPA (it was my second and third brew). Using extract kits, things proceeded well. When the IPA wort was finished, I pitched a vial of burton ale and set it to ferment. That was 48 hours ago. After about 18...