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What if in the case of very low efficiency (less than 60 or 50%)? I haven't paid much attention to my efficiency. But I am curious if anyone knows.

This may be a real beginner question, but can lower brewhouse efficiency lead to off flavors of any kind?

Thanks guys. There is about a quarter inch exposed to the wort when I drain it from the mash tun.

I built mash tun from a cooler and used a galvanized iron coupling to connect to the spigot. It was only after I brewed a couple beers that I realized something doesn't look right. The beer hasn't been consumed and I dumped it and will just replace the coupling. But should I take any further...

Hello, I'm fairly new to beer making. I used extract a couple of times and those came out well. But the last few (different recipes: primarily two-row, but I've changed yeast a couple of times for the sake of experimenting/learning, fermentation temps and times have been about 70 degrees and...

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I looked up fungus gnats--that's what appears to have come out. I don't have any house plants, so I am not sure how they entered the wort. The beer itself smelled/tasted fine, guess I got lucky.

What details would be relevant? Or just everything?

Not sure exactly, they are very small, perhaps the size of a fruit fly or imperceptibly larger.

I'm new to beer making, I picked up some ingredients and followed directions closely in sanitation and other things. When it came to bottling, all went well until I reached the sediment near the bottom of the fermenter when small, dead insects started to show up in the final bottle and in the...