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    Can alcohol kill yeast? US-05

    I'm brewing a small-batch big beer (OG: 1.150 or so) with US-05. I didn't forsee brewing such a big beer, but it kind of turned out like that. :drunk: Fermentation started slow, went on slowly, and ended after probably only 16-hours from first bubble to last bubble. Did the alcohol kill my...
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    Mash/Boil

    If mashing above a certain temperature is bad, and produces unfermentables...what is the point of the boil? Will this not also produce/transform the wort into unfermentables?
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    Beer Tastes Like Crap

    Just bottled my first batch, last night. Tasted one...tastes gross. I knew it wasn't going to be too amazing as I was going off of a basic recipe, but this one tastes...weird. The alcohol and beer flavors are somehow "separate". For example, most beers, you take a swill in your mouth and...
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    Brewing my first batch tonight--Some questions.

    So I'm reading the instructions and it says to add "Burton's Water Salts". In the kit I got, it does not include this, but it has a tiny bag of "Water Crystals". Is this the same thing? I understand these water crystals are used as a water hardener, but what are water salts?
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