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My boil was almost 90 minutes because I had too much wort and wanted to boil it off and the beer tastes great, the only thing I would change is I will add 20-40% more orange peel next time. That is not to say that a 30 minute boil would be bad I am just saying the beer will taste good with a 90...

I just brewed this up today (chilling as we speak) I ended up with about 1/2 gal too much wort so I ended up with something closer to a 90 min boil but followed the hops schedule starting with 30 min left in the boil the temp corrected gravity was 1.047 with about 5.25 gal of wort. I will be...

do a google search on stuck fermentation should I shake? and your going to see more than one result that says anything from no way under no circumstances to stir gently to shake gently to shake well. It has become apparent to me that just like information on my profession the information on beer...

While not shaking seems to be the majority opinion and I agree shaking was both probably not necessary and may be harmful it is definatly not everyones opinion and for us NOOBS searching forums for answers to our questions it is easy to find completly different answers to the same question. It...

definatly not in a hurry Brewdad, I now have 8 brews for a total of 40 gallons brewed (some over a month in the secondary) and this was the first time in this bucket and the first time fermentation appeared to stop, dont get me wrong I was definatly worried but I did some digging on the forums...

Man its nice to see whats going on in there, if I could I would have all glass carboys but I already have enough invested in beer making for my first year. I just cant bring myself to let anything sit around unused or I would just stick to the glass.

Hey for anyone out there looking at all the stuck fermentation threads like I have been. I put together my first AG 4 days ago a Dry Stout and I was getting a lot of air lock activity within 24 hrs (man it was going nuts) but waking up this morning (day 4) there was ZERO activity. I then started...

Bump....this was a great thread and saved me a bunch of time trying to remove painted labels THANK YOU edit: at 2x strength it took 2 hours to remove the labels on the Stone brewing bottles but the Otto Brewing Moose Juice Stout is un touched as of yet even a copper scouring pad wont etch...

i have a total of 6 five gal brews under my belt and 2 have taken about that long to start and the other 4 were all bubbling within 12 hrs. I can tell you though that these guys will want to know what temp the fermenter is currently at and if you rehydrated the yeast or pitched it dry and the...

how do you keep track of all your different brews?

First one!

poped open the top on my 1st one today and it was pretty darn good, maybe a few more days until its fully carbed up but I am pleased.

ya thats why i was moving the carboy to a better spot to take a pic and wipe the outside a little but then most of it broke up or fell to the bottom...not sure which....but I will give it another week and update it

Well this is after a 10 day primary and then 7 days in the 2ndary ithey broke up as soon as i moved the carboy to get a better pic, I am not sure if the big one broke up or sank but its gone now. I was going to wait it out another week and see what happens but what do you think?

is it really that foolproof?

Fist attempt at beer ever, my father in-law gave me all his brewing equiptment last year and I needed some malt for some bread making projets I wanted to try so while I was picking up the malt I fugured what the hell and decided to pick up the rest of the supplies i needed to make beer. I am...