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I set out to brew 5 gallons of Kolsch tonight. Wyeast 2565 (stored in a refrigerator for 8 months) ½ lb corn sugar 6lbs. Pilsen DME 1 oz. Cascade I smacked the pack and laid out the other ingredients. After two hours the yeast still wasn’t swelled up but I had already set the hops to...

Greetings All, I'm not new to brewing but I am new to gluten free. Yesterday I made my first GF beer for my dad. Since dropping gluten, he has had to replace beer with wine and he hates it. If I can make something that tastes like beer then he might be willing to try homebrewing for himself...

If there is so much bleach residue in a carboy after cleaning that it taints the flavor wouldn't it also be enough to interfere with fermentation? I have two batches with a horrible bleach-like flavor. I clean my carboys by soaking overnight with bleach. It's possible that I didn't rinse with...

I want a ferm chamber. I picked up a chest freezer with a broken thermostat. I think that's the only thing wrong with it because it was dead until I put a jumper around the thermostat at which time it came to life. I've studied some stuff on the STC-1000 and I'm sure can do that if I replace the...

This is something I haven't experienced before in my 50 or so previous batches. Out of the 48 bottles, one of them was radically different in color, carbonation and flavor. The other bottles were ok but this one was much better. I use the same bottling process as all previous batches, 3/4 cup...