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Thank you for the responses, everyone. Things are still looking up. We are at 2 weeks in the fermentor right now. There are still tiny bubbles rising up from the solution, the airlock smells good, and there is still a layer of yeast floating on top. I keep the fermentor in the basement shower...

Yeah, I thought it was odd. It's still fermenting - the air lock smells great. I'll keep you posted on the results!

Umm...London Ale 3 I think.

So I have a few brews under my belt. Last week I had something new happen. I transferred the wort to the fermenter, and pitched the yeast. 12 hours later, I checked on it, and instead of the normal snow globe effect with a cloudy wort and particles flying everywhere, I had these blobs and an...

Understood. This is super helpful! I have yet to learn about cold crashing - will do some reading on this. Thank you!

Just experimenting. As a group we've read quite a bit about using a secondary vs kegging after primary. We had 2 batches and figured we would experiment: try one secondary and one keg and see. Our thinking was it would help with sediment. But, I think it makes the most sense to keg after the...

Good to know. Thank you!

Thanks for the info! Was pretty sure it wasn't an infection, but I couldn't find anything else that looked like this. Thought it was weird. It happened to both buckets. It was very dense. on the second one I tried pushing it to one side, it folded like an accordion, then I let it go and it...

Recently started brewing all grain with a few friends. This is the second time we were making this particular recipe (a blond). Although we forgot to add a clearing agent the first time round. We liked it enough, that we decided to do a double batch this time. We brewed two 5 gal batches (10...