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Been brewing a lot of hoppy beers lately, almost all using 1056, and they've been finishing much lower than anticipated. Pale ales finishing around 1.04-08 I tried using gypsum but it doesn't seem to have made much of a difference, IPA just finished at 1.07 today and the target was 1.14...

So my beers have been turning out ok, I have ironed out most of my brewing process so that things generally run smoothly. I have noticed a similar off flavor though and I'm wondering why. Regardless of style my beers have had an almost banana-y/fruit/sweet flavor towards the end that is not...

my last few beers have been severely overcarbonated and I can't figure out why. They are usually in the 1.055-70 OG range and I give them 4 weeks to ferment. I've been using the hbd.org carbonation calculator and still, every beer that I open foams for a few minutes, is incredibly hard to...

I don't have a refractometer, so i'm wondering if there's a way to check the gravity with a hydrometer? seems like it could get confusing adjusting for that high of a temperature...

This is in an APA that is now 2 weeks into secondary and has finished at about 1.016. I dropped the dry hops into a sanitized hop bag on saturday and put them in the carboy. Woke up this morning to some very strange objects floating and now I'm pretty worried. It smells normal and I haven't...

I brewed an IPA about 2 weeks ago and I was trying to pitch yeast cultivated from another beer to ferment with. I used the correct amount of yeast accordng to MrMalty, but it only reached about 65% attenuation. Looking back I'm realizing that a lot of the volume of yeast cells may have been...

I transferred my 5gal oatmeal chocolate stout to secondary yesterday and I was all set to put about 2.5oz ground coffee from a local source into a dry hop bag and let do it's thing but now I am wondering how do I make sure it is sanitized? I know this is not the method some people use, but even...

This is my 2nd time brewing and it's a black IPA extract kit from northern brewer. we followed all instructions and the only thing we did differently was dry hopping with 1.5 oz of cascade hops 5 days before going from secondary to bottle. We tasted the beer last night while bottling and...