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It's a problem because you introduced you beer into an oxygen rich environment. That's why most people avoid secondary now. If you do a secondary I recommend purging the carboy/bucket with c02 first. About the grassy flavor. I had a beer that tasted grassy. It had a huge amount of late hops...

strain your wort through a paint strainer bag before it goes into the fermentor

Mine have already started sprouting. Gotta love Arizona.

Let me get this right...... You dumped .5 gallon of hot brown suga/ water into your must then the yeast on top of that? Or did you dump the yeast into hot brown suga/water mix then that into the must? Or yeast into the must then near boiling mix on top? Did you aerate? A little clarification on...

Just be aware that if for some reason it does flower and produce hop cones, they are poisonous to dogs. Don't want anyone's furry friend to end up at the vet!

Try this, it has worked well for me http://www.brew365.com/mash_sparge_water_calculator.php

You might want some yeast nurient in there. If you don't have any on hand a few raisins will suffice.

Why don't you stand the bottles up and keep the water level below the caps?

Except for Tucson which is about 10 degrees colder than Phoenix on average! Spring here is also like summer everywhere else. So....pale ale, wheat beer, blonde

Your looking at too much head space in secondary, and probably the result of some unsanatized cherries

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If it tastes good, call it beer and drink up. If not, call it a learning experience. If your not brewing for a competition I wouldn't worry about style guidlines. It sounds like a Wit. How long did you boil. If it was a longer boil You could add some of your extract later in the boil to...

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Well red and blue make purple.....so....15 srm for red add you blueberries....and *bam* purple beer. You NEED a number 15. It's 15 15:rockin:

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Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

Gordon Biersch Czech style pilsner

Bottles up 2 gallons of a sour experiment

Definitely mix the sugar in with a small amount of boiling/hot water. Put the sugar mix in your bottling bucket and transfer beer on top of that. As for how much sugar, what type of beer is it?