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Against my better judgment, I stole some yeast from a chimay bottle in an attempt to make a chimay clone from a recipe book that I have. (I left 1/2 inch in the chimay bottle, made a mini wort, poured it into the bottle, and let it go for 2 days. Then, I transfered what I had in the bottle...

Okay, I got my 3rd brew going. It is an Oktoberfest - my first lager (extract). The original gravity was about 1.067. Fermentation was never really vigorous, but it did get going pretty good for a couple of days. After those couple of days, I have been getting airlock activity about once or...

I just racked my second brew, an extract, to the secondary. I took a little sample in the process. It tasted great! Way, way better than when I sampled my first, which is still conditioning. I am making Papazian's Toad Spit Stout. It was in the primary for about 9 days. I hope it doesn't...

I am brewing my first beer - an English Pale Ale (kit). My primary fermenter is a 6.5 gallon carboy. During the first 24 hours, fermentation went quite well. After that, fermentation diminished, not completely, but almost. It has now been in the fermenter for roughly 2.3 days as of now. It...