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Should I also let it sit in secondary for couple of weeks? I do not use any additives

I brewed this Raging red ale recipe: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=239188 Took a gravity sample of this one today after 2 weeks in primary (didnt use honey in the recipe). The color was more brownish then red and the taste was very bitter and very malty. Im not satisfied with...

Took a gravity sample of this one today after 2 weeks in primary (didnt use honey in the recipe). The color was more brownish then red and the taste was very bitter and very malty. Im not satisfied with this recipe so far but mabye its too early to judge. Do you think in another week in...

I tried to look for an answer to this question but found nothing. My question is, instead of using the recirculation technique, why not just use the plate chiller the normal way (wasting some water) and put the entire thing inside of a freezing cold ice water bucket. As I see it, it only can...

Thank you. So I guess I won't try to lager for a while, my ales were just getting really good and lager are way too different. I'm aware of my issues at the process, but right now, there is something that I can do to prevent the yeast/trub practicles? There is any way it can turn into a 1...

Ok, about the fermantation process: I did a 2 weeks of 10-12 degrees ferm, then 1 month of lagering in 4 degrees. At the bottling day, unlike the ales that I make, it didnt have a nice yeast cake at the bottom. It was like big chunks of yeast and trub at the bottom AND also at the top of it. I...

Ok so today I openned my first bottle of first lager batch. It tastes good, but it is SO DIRTY of yeast and trub. I did the bottling process just like I usually do with ales. Why is that? how can I prevent it? Now all of my bottles are gonna be like that? Now I cant give bottles to others...

Thank you man, you were really helpful. btw do you think s-23 can cause any over fermentation? should I put a blow off tube?

Ok, the thing is after 2-3 weeks after brewing this one I will come back home only on week ends. So still go for a month lagering (just let it sit without even seeing it) or looking after it is very important so I shouldn't take the chance? its first time lagering, thats why I ask, to get...

Im not going to do secondary or rack to secondary. only primary and bottling. so how do you suggest of doing it? if I will go for 2 weeks primary in 10c, then 3 days 16c, then 3 days at 3-5c (cold crash?) and then bottle (tell me temp needed here). Is it ok? I will go for the recipe above...

Thanks, I may try this out. What about ferm temp? 10 degrees celcius?

So Im about to brew my first lager. I want a recipe of Dark Lager/Munich Lager style Yeast s-23 or w3470 Without any extra additions like barley or oats or anything that isnt malt and hops. Plus I do only primary ferm and then bottle ferm. Thank you very much. Forgot to mention: AG and no...

Ok so I can get from my work place a filter bag. It's a long filter bag with very small hairs which filters stuff. I thought maybe I can use it to filter the wort when I move it to the fermenter and when I rack to secondary for priming. What do you think?

Ok so this morning I woke up and my airlock was bubbling like crazy and krausen started to come up. Also I was in a hurry to get to the work so I had to build an improvised blow off tube. I took the bottling racking tube and took off the white bottle filler at the end and put the hard plastic...

Ok so I came up with an idea, tell me what do you think. Doing for the first very hot degrees a water/ice bath to the wort. Those degrees gets down pretty fast. Then take the bottling cane, put most of it inside ice bucket with water and rack the wort into some other sanitized container. How...

i mean the yeast doesnt seperate from the trub - its one layer.... can i just pitch it all together?

Well, first of all let me explain about the jars. Is used to have oil in there and now it's clean but a little bit oily because it hasn't been cleaned properly. And it has labels on it, so is is sanitized of boiled? The water too? And the s-05 jar has a nice big creamy colored layer of yeast...

but I cant make my s-04 seperate anyway.... Im not going to use the s-05 anytime soon, only the s-04...which is no seperating.... I sanitized the jars and water using boiling water in a pot, but the jars wasnt 100% clean (had some oily spots) and has labels on it. Will it be counted as not...

Wow you made me worry now about the infection..... So there is a big chance that if I made 1 tiny mistake I can ruin not only my washed yeast, I can ruin all my batch.... I dont know if I should take this chance.... Anyway I make a new batch next week or in saturday using the s-04. So I...