I recently made an IPA and into the fermenter bucket wet 5.5 gallons. I used safe ale s-04 yeast, 2 packs re hydrated. I racked to secondary with 3 oz of hop pellets for 10 days and i had a thick yeast cake left in the bottom of the bucket. I also had a pretty sizeable yeast cake in my secondary...

That was my second batch and the third came out really, really good. But between the batches i think i did buy a new siphon hose and i submersed everything in a batch of starsan before transfering to carboy and bottle bucket and bottles. Glad to know what it was, but no there was not vinigery...

The spring clamp is a good idea. I normally but a sack for each hop addition, they are like 64 cents and i figured that it was worth it to not have to worry about straining hop materiel through my useless funnel screen. The first time i used that thing it got so clogged i had to soak my arm in...

It was not a cheap batch and im too stingy with money to dump it. If i get a slight buzz i can easily drink it down, its damn near 8% according to beersmith so a little goes a long ways for me.

I wasnt sure it was lactose but I imagined that it what it must have been. there is a noticeable amount of the stuff around the top of the bottles. Im not sure if its an infection because im still a beginner but I imagine infected beer to taste undrinkable, during fermentation it looked...

Also the recipe called for 5 pounds of purreid cherries that I added in the boil with like 5 minutes left, which after tasting this beer i would only recommend using a concentrated cherry juice based on recommendations of others on other threads. there was a specific brand that was best. If you...

Will i limit the hops ability to work if I use pellets in a grain sock tied to the handles of the pot?

I made a beer with 8 oz of lactose (5 gallon batch) added with 10 minutes left in the boil. The beer was a chocoate cherry stout i got from a ski resort over the winter and the beer was black but not heavy. it was a stout for sure but one that was light feeling in the stomach, i had a 24 oz...

Nosybear, I really took to heart your advice on the 5 most important things to brewing good beer. I got a mini fridge for fermenting and I felt between first batch and second that helped tons with the off flavor. I think one more thing I would add to your list is the temp of the wort when you...

my thought with super tight is specifically for barley wines. I always open my beers with a lighter, an i definitely notice how hard it is to open some styles. But i must add that I think the bottles from my Home brew store just carbed slower. It has been 4 weeks and now my bottles from the...

alright thanks for the ideas. Maybe ill just all a little more priming sugar whenever I use those bottles. And no I am not using twist offs. If I wanted the cap on there super tight like a barleywine, because I might make one eventually and age some for over a year, is there a special cap or...

the bottles were all 12 oz. I put in order in the cases from first bottled to last chronologically and I used founders bottles for the last 3 of the run, I tried the 4th to the last bottle which was one bought from the LHBS and it was the same carbonation as all the others from the LHBS. I guess...

Hey guys, I have been trying my first home brew, a chocolate coffee stout and I used the majority of virgin bottles form LHBS and had 3 bottles sanitized and reused from founders beers. The bottles from founders are at my derided co2 level, they are short and fat and the other bottles are tall...

Hey guys, I am a new brewer and this is my second post. I have to let all newbies know my experiences before they decide if their first batch was ruined. Against nearly everyone advice I decided to try a chocolate coffee stout for my first ever batch. I took an all grain recipe and converted it...

This message is awaiting moderator approval, and is invisible to normal visitors. What wold help me the most is if someone could post a recipe and then elaborate A bit on the procedure. especially when to rack to secondary carboy. Someone mentioned that my procedure could work, but I mainly got...

Thanks guys for all your helpful insight, I have looked over the kits all put together andmay just brew one of those first but I do want to eventually start brewing beers with listed recipes here. When thaat time comes the things you all have pointed out will be very helpful. The procedure I...

I am new to brewing, actually I was looking into making my first batch of beer and learning everything I can. I would like to make something I have found on here but the instructions left fermentation times were not given and I was wondering if this is recipe is something that is out of the...