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The Chicken City Ale Raisers will be having a multiple person brew session that will be streaming live on UStream starting at 9:00 AM tomorrow if y'all are interested. www.ustream.com/channel/therealbenis Check it out...

Update* Racked to secondary at 1.007.

Update* It has now been 17 days since brew day and this beer is still fermenting. OG has dropped to 1.014 and seems to still be going. There is still a thin layer of krausen on top. Beer tastes incredible, smells incredible. I am wondering how much further it will go. Thanks for all the help guys.

Update* - checked gravity again today and it is still dropping. It has dropped to 1.021 which is getting close to the target and the beer tastes pretty good already. Smells amazing. Still about 1/2" or so of krausen on top. I'm gonna let it keep going to see if it gets there. I'll let y'all know...

14#of US 2 Row Pale 2# of Marris Otter Pale 1# Crystal 20L Mashed for 1 hour at 153F.

Hey guys, I brewed a 5.5 gal batch of Southern Tier 2XIPA Clone 15 days ago and it is still fermenting in the primary as of this morning. I used a two liter starter on a stir plate, but had to put it in the refrigerator after 12 hours or so because it was erupting like a volcano. I decanted the...

Update.... So I just poured the first beer and it is drinkable. Does it taste like infected **** water? No. Is it good? Not really. I know I'm not the first person to post about this, but let me warn anyone who thinks about brewing an all Citra IPA. It sucks.

Yes it was AG - but I buy my grain bills for a LHBS and they crush it for me when I pick it up. Also, I doubt it was lactobacillus from the grain because it had been sitting in the secondary for 2 weeks with no issues. The "infection"? started 2 days after the dry hop. I am leaning toward the...

I just kegged it. I poked a hole in the white film with a thief and put my siphon through the clear beer all the way to the bottom (above the sediment) and left all of the film beer in the carboy. I know an infection is going on at a microscopic level, but I figured the less of that ****, the...

This is a Citra IPA that I brewed a month ago. I racked from the primary after 14 days and it has been fine in the secondary ever since. 2 days ago, I dry hopped in a new hop bag that I soaked in star San for 20-30 mins or so. I dropped the bag in and moved it back and forth through the beer to...