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Has anyone else seen this B4? When i racked to the secondary, there was a sturdy yeast cake on the top. It was greyish brown, had the texture of a foamy sponge and was somewhat hard to slice to get a tube down past for racking. I'm brewing a stout to go onto that cake rightnow. There was a...

Trying to make a cream ale... Have all my stuff that i want. Got myself a quart of hi-malt glucose(liquid). How much should a guy use, roughly for the middle of the road mouthfeel effect. Is a quart too much for a 5 gallon batch. I plan to use vanilla in the secondary.

I have a batch in the secondary. I used WL008 East coast ale. Primary for 7 days and it seemed like it was finished. So i racked to secondary and when i racked, i used my hydrometer and found that it was only @ 1.020. The original gravity was 1.038. After two weeks in the secondary it is...

I read this some where a while ago here. And i thought what a brilliant idea. I boiled 3 pints of water + .75lb DME and poured that into three large bottles equally. Then i poured the vial of white labs liquid yeast into the 3 bottles with equal porportions. Capped two for later(let them sit...

Is malted Wheat used in ales, Pretty much just for the improvement of head and body flavour? Does it have to be mashed or Steeped. I was thinking of a good recipie and I have found that all of my brews have no head, Is malted wheat the right path and if so how much?

I just got my Vile in the mail last week. When i Got it, it was warm. So i put in the fridge straight away. Well... Two days ago I looked at it and she had a definite seperation of sludge and brown liquid on top. And when i went downstairs to get me a brew, wouldn't you know i has the...

So as I was racking from my secondary into my Bottling bucket, I noticed a layer of stuff on top of my brew in the secondary. What really freaked me out was when I first noticed it it looked GREEN! Then i realized that it was probably just the flourescent tube lighting. I guess I would...

I racked to my secondary today and seen a very strange trub. This was the first time that i used Irish Moss in my boil and i think that this may be why. The Trub had this Balled-Up looking, kind of co-agulated, pebbley, cottage cheese consistancy. Clearly Balled-Up form. Sorry No Pic's But...

Drinking my first brew. Tastes kind of strange. Pretty well no alcohol content. Seeing as how I only used 2 quatrs of LME for 5 gallons...:( (lessons learned) Good carbonation and all that, But my biggest frown is the CHILL HAZE... What causes this. What can a guy do to prevent it?

Trying to make a Honey Brown. On Saturday Morn. -Using 5 lbs of Pale LME -1/2 lb of roasted barely -3/4 quart of liquid honey -2.5 Ounces of northern (pellets) 60 min. -1.5 Ounces Haullertauter 30 min. -1 Ounces Hallertauter 5 min. Q #1: When Steeping the Roasted...

I tried capping some regular crown tip bottles with my bench capper and the caps were somewhat loose. I could actually spin them around. this is only a test bottle. The caps i used were those silver coloured twist off types. Do they actually work with the twist off bottles. They seem to be...

Reading lots on how to make an AG brew... I understand all the ingredients and processes. But do you Mash in all of your base grains, specialty grains, and flavouring grains and every other grains all in the same mash @ the same time? I understand that there are some exceptions to the norm...

I just brewed my first batch in like 11yrs. -48 oz. of pale LME -16 oz. adjunct extract LME -Boiled 60 min in my home made Copper brew-pot -2 ounces Cascade pellets for 60 min. -1.5 oz of hallertauten pelltes for 15 min. -10 grams of nottington yeast + 2 grams of nutrient...