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Brewed a batch of the White House Honey Ale and tried one for the first time the other night. Beer was in primary for three weeks and carbed for three weeks, when I was bottling the beer everything looked and smelled fine. Opened one up the other night and its smells like yeast, funky yeast...

Brewing tonight for the first time in a few months and I am extremely excited. Was doing 5 gallon BIABs but recently moved into an apartment in Northern VA and don't have the space to do 5 gallon so I bought a one gallon set up and the white house honey ale kit. Can't wait to get this brew...

I went to a brewpub a few weeks ago and had their citra brown ale which I found delicious. I tried getting a clone recipe from them but had no luck, I'm thinking of just getting a brown ale kit and using citra hops instead of the palisades/cascade that comes with the kit. The beer at the pub...

On my last batch of beer (english ipa) bout 4-5 of the bottles were gushers when I opened them. These bottles had an overly sweet taste with a sour aftertaste to them, the other bottles tasted fine and didnt have any off tastes to them. On the brew I started drinking a few weeks ago (belgian...

I did my first BIAB earlier today and am having trouble with figuring out my mash efficiency. I used 10 pounds of maris otter, My pre boil volume was 7 gallons with a 1.056 SG. My post boil volume was a little over 5 gallons with a 1.052 reading. Ive looked at different forum posts and things...

10 lbs Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 1 100.0 % 1.00 oz Centennial [8.70 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 2 31.1 IBUs 0.50 oz Centennial [8.70 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 3 11.9 IBUs 0.50 oz Centennial [8.70 %] - Boil 1.0 min Hop 4 0.7 IBUs 1.0 pkg American Ale (Wyeast Labs #1056) [124.21 ml]...

waking up and seeing a healthy fermentation going on a new beer :rockin:

I brewed a belgian tripel from an extract kit about 4 hours ago and just realized that I forgot to add one of the bags of candi syrup that came with the kit. Recipe was: 7 lb Briess pilsen dme, .5 lb dingemanns aromatic malt, 3 oz biscuit malt and 2 lb of clear candi syrup. Can anyone tell me...

I was given a beligian tripel kit that came with wyeast 3787, it was from november so i decided to go to LHBS and pick up some more yeast to make a starter. The store only had white labs trappist ale 500, would there be any problems if I added the two different yeasts into a starter to make the...

I brewed a English IPA two weeks ago and it has been fermenting in the basement at about 62-64 degrees. I just checked the website and it says ideal temp for the yeast (London Ale WLP013) is 66-71. My question is should I just get it into a warmer temperature for the last week I plan on...

How many of you brew just as a hobby and how many of you do this for a career in a brewery? If you do it just as a hobby, would you ever want to take it another step and try and open up a brewery? I'm just a beginner and have a longggg way to go but I think it would be awesome to one day have...

Today is two weeks since I brewed my NB Smashing Pumpkin Ale Extract Kit (my 2nd brew) and I was going to move it to my secondary but when I opened it up it looked like this activity in the airlock stopped a few days ago but I forgot to check the gravity of it so im assuming that there is...

I just finished brewing my second brew ever (NB Smashing Pumpkin Ale). I cooled the wort down below 100* and then poured into my primary, the only thing is my fermometor isnt showing a temperature, it was already cool to the touch but i waited an extra 15 minutes or so to pitch my yeast. Im...