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My gluten free beer is fermenting very slowly. I have it in a room that is about 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Is that too cold? I also used Windsor Ale yeast. Does that yeast need a warmer temperature? Thanks.

So when racking my scotch ale which had been inthe primary for 8 weeks, there were strange looking brown squares which had formed in the yeast cake. It also had a strange smell, almost like formaldehyde. did i leave it in the primary too long? Is it a bad batch or will it recover with aging...

Anyone know which company sells a Fat Tire clone?

On Friday I brewed a stout and during the boil I added 4 oz of ground espresso beans because I thought it would taste good. Everything went swimmingly. I thoroughly cleaned the fermentation bucket and the airlock, but forgot to clean the lid of the bucket. It had been sitting around since the...

I was brewing an IPA the other night and I was about 15 minutes into the boil when I noticed that there was a hole in the muslin bag that I put the bittering hop pellets in. The muslin bag was empty and all of the hops were floating around in the wort while it boiled. Nothing I could do to fix...

I'm doing my first IPA. It's been in the primary 2 weeks. I'm going to dry hop sometime in the next week. Should I use a Muslin bag, or should I just toss the oz of pellets in and stir it around.

Making a hard cider, I didn't read the cider's ingredients and of course it had potassium sorbate in it. I have already pitched the yeast. Is there any way to neutralize the potassium sorbate so I don't have to dump this? Thanks in advance.

I'm starting my 2nd beer this weekend. It is an IPA. I am going to use the yeast that comes with the kit this time (it is due to arrive tomorrow), but I am wondering if in the future if there is a certain kind of yeast that brings out the hops more in an IPA? Is there a certain yeast that...

I was just moving my Ale Pail and it slipped out of my hand. The lid didn't come off, but some of the water I had in the airlock slipped into the wort. It was distilled water that I used in the brewing process anyway, but could this ruin the beer?

Just made my first homebrew wort last weekend. The stout is fermenting nicely. :mug:

I'm still about 4 weeks away from bottling my first home brew. It's a stout. I would like some advice on when to add the corn sugar to carbonate it. Should I put a little in each bottle before filling them, or boil it into some water, let it cool, and add it to the wort while it is still in...

I'm just looking for opinions from people here, and I know there are no absolutes in homebrewing. I'm a noob brewing my first beer, and I chose a stout. It has been 5 days fermenting strongly so far at 66F. How long should I wait to rack it? The instructions say 2 weeks, but they were...

I'm just looking for opinions from people here, and I know there are no absolutes in homebrewing. I'm a noob brewing my first beer, and I chose a stout. It has been 5 days fermenting strongly so far at 66F. How long should I wait to rack it? The instructions say 2 weeks, but they were...