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I brewed a barleywine about a month ago, and I'm thinking about moving to a secondary for bulk aging. Fermentation seemed to be done after about 9 days, and I have stable gravity readings. Is a month enough time for the yeast to clean up a barleywine, or should I leave it for another month or...

I brewed an English Barleywine a little over 2 weeks ago. I had an OG of 1.097, which was right on the money (thanks to my brand new refractometer). I just took my initial sample post-ferment, and I ended up with a gravity of 1.017, giving me an attenuation of around 83%. Usually, this...

I made a starter yesterday for my English Barleywine that is boiling as we speak. This is my first really big brew, so I decided to throw in a 7g packet of coopers yeast that I got with my very first kit about a year and a half ago. Being lazy, I boiled in my flask, and I tossed the coopers...

The other night, I had a brilliant idea. Recently, I've been having a scotch and stout (in two different glasses). I'll take a sip of my scotch, then a drink of my cream stout I have bottled right now. I'm finding all sorts of new and enhanced flavors out of both drinks, and I feel like this...

I've got about 25 brews under my belt, and have done AG for the last 6. I can't get a very strong boil, so I usually have to boil for up to 3 hours to get down to my target OG. Aside from the carmelization that might be happening, what are the adverse affects of boiling hops for this long...

I wanted to get an idea of how it tastes before I decide to brew one and age it for a year. It was an Olde Suffolk English Ale. A little piece of me went to heaven and then came back to earth and round-house kicked some orphans. This will be my next batch, although I'm a little nervous about...

Hey all! I brewed my first AG wheat (Hank's Hefeweizen from midwest supplies) almost 3 months ago. It's been in bottles for a little over 2 months. I've already had a few through various stages of conditioning, hoping to see it get better, but I get a very strong buttery flavor and aroma...

Terribly good, that is. :ban: Thank you all for all the info on this site. I don't post much, but I come here at least 6 times a day, and have soaked up a LOT of info. This is a cream ale I brewed in September. 5 weeks primary and a month in the bottles, and this is what I ended up with. I...

Hello All, I've got 12 brews under my belt (including 3 AG), and I'd like to start experimenting a little bit. I'd like to try and make a wheat stout, but I have no clue where to even start, and finding a recipe has been extremely difficult, so I slopped together my best (nearly uneducated)...

Hey everyone! I'm using liquid yeast for the first time. It's a WL001 California Ale Yeast. It was out of the fridge for about 3 hours, and then I shook it to resuspend the yeast. I just finished boiling/cooling my starter, and when I opened my vial, it exploded, much like a shaken bottle...

Today I brewed my 5th batch ever, an Irish stout. Everything was going perfectly, until I accidentally put in the full ounce of Nugget hops instead of the 1/2 ounce. I'm not really a 'hop head'. Will I have to let it mellow out for longer than I normally would condition, or will that extra...

Hello again! I brewed an imperial stout yesterday, and finally got it cool enough to pitch the yeast this morning. Around 5pm this evening, I started noticing the typical signs of fermenting, and about 15 minutes ago, I opened up my bucket to find this. I'm not worried at all, but was just...

Hello all! I live in Iowa, and am a poor college student, so I'm living in an apartment without air conditioning. I just brewed my 4th batch ever (an imperial stout), and all was going well until it came time to cool the wort. It's 85 degrees out and almost humid enough to drink the air. I...

Hello all! Noobie here. I've just finished getting my 2nd batch ever into my primary, and have corrected a lot of the mistakes I made the first time around. However, I'm afraid I might have killed or damaged my yeast. After I got my wort into the primary bucket, I added the cold water and I...