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K. Thank you for the help. I hope you are right and my first batch with hops isn't funky. I will post if it does not drop in about 1 week or so.

I understand that there is usually a gunk ring (if not all the time) but I have never had gunk inside the beer. It was always where the krausen was formed which was on top of the actual beer. This is literally in the beer if you look at the pictures not on top of the beer just very close. Also I...

I would like to add that I gave the FV a lil nudge to move the beer a bit and the white stuff in the beer seems to be stuck to the sides because it doesn't move.

Than what is that stuff sitting below the beer level in my pictures? I can't see how that would be krausen since it is under the beer and yeast would be moving around. Also like I said it only seems to be on the side of the FV with the weird greenish krausen but I may be mistaking. Can't get a...

The one with coopers had a lot more krausen just not krausen that was actually in the beer. It was all on top and was spewing out my blowoff hose like no tomorrow.

I was thinking of giving these batches 3 weeks if not more for fermentation so hopefully that will be enough. FG for me seems to be reached within 1-2 weeks.

I wish my temps were that low. For these 2 brews they were up at 75 degrees on the stick on thermometers so probably almost 80. Hopefully it will be okay. Sure it will be cause I am drinking keystone right now which is the lowest of the low. I am thinking of rigging up a swamp cooler or ice...

That's true except this time I pitched 2 packs of coopers IPA yeast (14g) in the other brew beside it and I do not see this stuff on top. Also the one with coopers yeast was way more active. It started with 1-1.5 liters more but ended up with less.

Thanks for pointing that out. I was reading around and saw that earlier when I was at work and it was little to late. It fermented for the first 2 days with a lot of blowoff at maybe 77F if lucky. I am not too picky with my beer although (drinking keystone till next batch is carbed) So hopefully...

K, Sweet I was a little nervous because I have never seen it happen before and when it grew in size I started to get really worried. I think it's probably the Nottingham Ale yeast because the Coopers has never done that before and it's my first time trying Nottingham.

I have 2 Coopers IPA's brewing and one of them has some white stuff underneath the beer line that does not look quite right only on one side of the FV. Also the krausen seems to be a bit green on the side with the white stuff brewing. I used 1 oz pellet hops on the one with all the problems so...

That is personally what I thought too but I thought I would post it just to get some other opinions. I doubt anything bad would be growing after 4 hours.

I brewed this beer around 4 hours ago. It was from a coopers extract kit with DME and dextrose and Nottingham ale yeast. I pitched the Nottingham ale yeast dry. Also when I pitched the Nottingham ale yeast the wort might have been a little warm still but I am pretty sure it was in between 75-80...

I don't have any means of keeping it a constant temperature. My last 2 brews my stick on thermometer has told me 75 degrees. I placed my carboy downstairs for a half a day (the temp was a little lower than 68 degrees) and for some reason got really antsy because the yeast was not active yet and...

For some reason when I plug in the numbers on brew builder I get %5.37 ABV and OG 1.055. I don't know what I am doing wrong. I put in the following: Briess Golden Light Liquid Extract 3 lbs, 12 oz Briess Golden Light Dry Extract 2 lbs, 3.2 oz Corn Sugar 1 lbs, 0 oz 1 Danstar Nottingham...

When I say I am making a hop tea I mean that I am going to boil roughly around 2-3L of water (without DME or sugar) and throw the hops in for 15 mins than shut off and remove from heat. I do not plan on boiling the DME since I have not boiled it once in 2 beers I have done and have not had any...

Also I found this calculator online but it seems to be really wonky. I put in the numbers for the 3.5 lbs (1.58 kg) of Dme the 1.7kg of coopers kit for the ingredients kit section and 500g (.5kg) dextrose with 20 kg of water and it comes out with OG 1.071 FG 1.017 ABV %7.7. Is this calculator...

Yea I was kind of worried about a malty bite. Im not sure if I am willing to use more hops on this brew since it is the first time I am using them but will probably use more in later brews. I was wondering with those calculators like brew builder do you just exchange the coopers can for LME and...

Thanks for the reply. I have some Nottingham ale yeast on hand so I guess I will pitch that instead of the coopers yeast packs. I don't understand why the 300g dextrose won't add any alcohol content. Is there any way to tell how much dextrose affects alcohol content in a coopers kit like a...

I am going to brew a coopers IPA kit and was wondering what kind of ABV this will give me and if it is going to be decent tasting. I am going to be adding the following: 1 can coopers 1.7kg IPA 2.2 Lbs light DME 300g Dextrose 1 oz Cascade (hop tea boiled for 15 mins) 2 packs of coopers yeast...