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Do you mean cloudiness where you wrote "a chill" in your second sentence?

My Red Ale was in primary for 14 days. I tested the gravity on the 12th and 14th day and it was a steady 1.012. I racked to the secondary a month ago and it hasn't even begun to clear up. Does this seem normal?

Thanks guys!!!! My first brew so I haven't aquired patience yet.

So how long did it take to start to clear up?

I racked my Irish Red Ale to the secondary 5 nights ago and haven't seen any clarity beginning. Wondering how long it takes for it to start clearing up. I have heard 2 weeks and bottle, but I couldn't imagine this being completely clear in 2 weeks saying that after 5 days it hasn't started.

Austinhomebrew, does the kit come with maltoferm or do I need to purchase it seperately.

Thank you howabouttheiris and Austinhomebrew. I'll be ordering the shiner clone from you.

Well, the old lady isn't going to let me take over our refrigerator and I have no room for another one.:rolleyes: refrigerator that is, not the old lady.

Did you use the lager yeast it comes with or did you use another type of yeast? If so what kind did you use?

I want to brew a beer similar to a shiner bock. I dont have a way to lager, because I don't have any way of keeping it cold enough to ferment. Is there anyway around this, to make a beer like a shiner bock but not lager it? And how are people lagering brew if they don't live were natural...

Thank you!!!!

Since I racked my beer to the secondary (2 hours ago) the piece that moves inside the airlock is raised up to the top of the airlock. Not going up and down and not rested on the bottom. Does anyone know why this might be happening?

Thanks guys!!!!!!! Its my first brew and kinda stressing it. Just want some AWESOME brew to drink.

I just racked my brew to a 5 gallon carboy. I have a couple questions. Well, first when I rinsed my carboy out with star san and then dumped it out, there was some foam left in the carboy. I racked it any ways and now theres some foam on top of the beer in the carboy. Is this going to effect...

I topped it off with distilled water. Its been a pretty steady 66 degree fermenting tempature. Thanks alot smokeater, sorry we started off on a bad note. I will let time tell. Its just my first brew and have alot of concerns.

Yes sir. In my kettle, I brought 2 gallons of water to 140 degrees. tHEN TURNED OFF HEAT. Added the bag of grains and water salts and steeped for 30 min. Then sparged the grains with 1 gallon of water at 160 degrees. Then brought it to a boil and turned the heat off and added malt extract...

I found the recipe on their website. DEFALCO'S IRISH RED ALE RECIPE INGREDIENTS: 7 lbs. light malt extract 1/2 lb. cara-pils malt 1/2 lb. British Medium Crystal 1/2 lb. aromatic malt 1/2 lb. wheat malt 1/2 lb. German Melanoidin malt 1 oz. Chocolate malt 1 pkg. Burton Water...

Should it taste good after 11 days?

So, I guess thats not good?

Hey Smokeater223, THANKS for your input.