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So I was wandering around the internets trying to learn about alpha acids and beta acids. I get that AAs are what makes hops bitter, but I'm still unsure what beta acids are for. In my wanderings I came across something called "Teamaker Hops". It's supposed to be a type of hop that is low on...

Okay, well I guess definitely not "malty". I'm still a little confused as to what malty taste like, since it can't be sweet. I mean, all the sugar is fermented out, right? Well, here are more details: It sat in the fermenter for 1 week, then I bottled. The taste has actually got better...

OG: 1.042 FG: 1.0.12 It fermented on the warm side, around 80-82F. I used SafeAle US-05. It's all sitting in bottles, and so far it's been about 4 weeks since pitching the yeast.

So I'm trying to figure out where I went wrong with my beer. I don't think it's infected, since it sounds like infected beers have a very strong sour flavor. My beer IS somewhat sour though. Not a bad taste, but not good either. It's hard for me to try and explain, I've tried using one of...

I would say be careful with Oxyclean and flexible tubing. I soaked all my brew stuff for a week (part laziness, part craziness with work) and everything came out nice and clean except for the siphoning tube. It developed a pretty nasty haze. The haze cleared up a little with Starsan, but it's...

Ohhhh, fancy..."isomerized". Sound so scientific. (-: That's good information, and it help confirms my suspicion that the beer making process is pretty hard to mess up. The reason I asked is because I boiled up my second batch last weekend and when I went to pour the wort into the primary I...

Wow, I didn't realize so many people didn't even bother straining. Does leaving the hops in affect the flavor at all? I would think it would result in a more bitter beer, since the hops has more time to impart its hoppy goodness.

Silly question, but how carefully do you filter out all the hops when pouring the wort from the brew pot into the primary? Do you stop pouring when all that's left in the pot is the hoppy-trubby mess? Or do you pass it all through a sieve and hope everything gets filtered out?