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I'm not that new to brewing overall but I'm still pretty new to all grain so I figured I'd post this here. My last few beers have had a distinct scent of oranges and I can't figure out what's causing it. Two of them seemed astringent and after kegging I found them nearly undrinkable. I took...

I got my Grainfather the other day and finally get to use it today. I ran a cleaning cycle with PBW per the manufacturer instructions and had no leaks. It heated the water to 131 from 100 quickly so hopefully I don't have any of the boil issues some people have reported. I did get the...

So I've made about 6 extract batches since I got back into brewing and they've all been quite good but I think I'm starting to understand what extract twang is. All of my beers have had a certain something that is hard to explain...kind of reminds me of when I had soda in Europe which was made...

I made my first starter the other day using Wyeast 3711 French Saison. I made a half gallon starter following guidelines I saw in multiple postings. Since there's so much liquid I wanted to decant so after about 30 hours on the counter I put it in the fridge overnight and was surprised to see...

Hi all...Santa brought me a FastFerment conical so I'm anxious to try it out. Since I haven't figured out a good way to control temps with it I figured it's a great excuse to make a saison. My local brewery (Marker 48) makes an awesome raspberry saison with cayenne called Meet the Heat and I'd...

I just made an extract American Wheat using a recipe that I found on homebrewing.org which I tweaked a little. The recipe didn't list an OG so I plugged it into Brewer's Friend and it said it should have an OG of 1.059. Based on my hydrometer reading I came up with an OG of1.066 so I'm a...

I'm going to brew a pretty basic American Wheat and wanted feedback on the hops and yeast. Here's the recipe I'm planning to use: 6 lbs Wheat DME 1oz Hallertau for 60 min 1oz Saaz for 15 min Zest of 2 oranges and a pound of honey at flameout Yeast...I have US-05, US-04, S-33, and Munton's...

So I'm drinking my Speckled Heifer partial mash beer that came as a kit from NB. Its been in a keg for about a week and it's carbed up nicely but there's an aftertaste I've been trying to understand. After some research I think it's astringency. While I don't know for sure, that seems to be...

I hope this isn't a stupid question but I was wondering if i can dispense some of my kegged beer from my keg to a growler or one liter flip top bottle via my keg faucet to give to friends. I'm concerned it might lose too much carbonation in the transfer...what do you think?

So I bought the Brewer's Friend app today and plugged in the ingredients for the kit I just got from Morebeer and the numbers in the recipe sheet and the numbers in the app are VERY different. I was wondering if someone with another brewing software would see what they get. Here's the info...

I peeked at my Brown Ale this morning and noticed that there's still some stuff floating on top which surprised me but what surprised me more was that there's a white bubbly film on top as well. Based on what I've read it could be an infection or related to CO2. I was also wondering if it...

I bottled my hefeweizen today and saw these brown clumps in the bucket...some floating and some towards the bottom. I used Irish moss...is that what this is?? Beer tastes great and I was able to keep it out of the bottles...just curious what it is. Oh I also included a pic taken from under a...

I've read about the various ways to bump up the ABV in beer but I'm not sure which of the methods will be best for my simple light Ale recipe so I'd like to get some input. Here's the recipe I plan to use: 6lbs Ultralight DME 8oz Crystal 15L for steeping .5oz Cascade 60 min 1oz Cascade 1 min...

So I'm considering kegging half of my batch of hefeweizen and bottling the rest. For the bottling I have 1 liter flip top bottles. Amazon was supposed to deliver 24 regular bottles today but alas they never came. So, I'm not sure what to do for priming since I'm only bottling half the 5 gallon...

I just took a hydrometer reading for my Hefeweizen after about 9 days in primary. I'm still new to using a hydrometer and I think I did it right but based on my calculations I get 3.7% estimated alcohol content. I expected it to be a little higher but after comparing my recipe to morebeer's...

So I just got back into brewing after 10 years away. My first batch was a German Blonde Ale and I kegged it a few days ago using force carb. The beer has been really foamy every time I pour it. I had this problem with non-home brewed beer in the past and I attributed it to not having a tower...

I know that generally speaking it's good to maintain proper fermentation temps...with lower often being better except with perhaps hefeweizens and select other beers and yeasts. That being said, once the signs of fermentation are done, do you still need to maintain those lower temps while the...

So I copied a morebeer kit and got the ingredients for an American Brown Ale at my local shop. When I went to brew it I found that the steeping grains were full of bugs...they looked like ants but I think they were actually some other ant-like critters. I chucked the grains and went to a...

I'm very reluctant to post this because I already know what most of the responses will be (never underpitch) but ultimately I'm here to learn and grow so here goes. I made a batch of hefeweizen yesterday and I only pitched one pouch of wyeast 3068 with no starter. I know I underpitched...

I'm just getting back into brewing after a 10 year hiatus and this time I plan to be more serious about it. I've been reading many forums over the past few weeks to get up to speed and I currently have my first post-hiatus batch in secondary. With the holidays coming I figured it's a good time...