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I used a California common. Not a true Oktoberfest but as close as I can get with my setup currently. I also "may" have racked some gunk out of primary. I just couldn't stand leaving that much beer on the bottom. I'll just wait a couple of weeks.

Ok I know this is likely way way too early to be concerned but I want to see if anyone else has had the same issue. I made my first all grain beer two weeks ago, an Oktoberfest. 10 total pounds of grain. Batch sparged and vorlaufed the first runnings. I kegged it on Sunday and took my way...

Top fermented refers to ale yeast, bottom fermented to lager yeast. The little beasties either float or sink when fermenting as I understand.

So are you saying I should claim credit for making a new "style" of beer? Even better!

Worst beer actually ended up tasty and proof of the phrase rdwhahb, but it sure wasn't pretty. I burned the lme, had black flakes floating in the beer and what was supposed to be an English brown ale was closer to black. But as my first beer it was gone almost before it fully carbed up. That...

Yoda. I might have to take you up on that challenge some day in the future and see how it comes out in judging. :) But for now it makes a hell of a good beer and that is the largest part of why I got into this hobby, and no I don't have anything against using a true lager yeast when I have the...

First post ever. Long time lurker but couldn't find any posts about this question when I was searching the threads. I hear people often talking about the difficulty of lagering without having a cool enough basement. I'm now doing my second lager using wyeast 2112 had great results the first...