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It's been about two years since I brewed last and I finally got my 3V HERMS set back up after a move. I brewed three weeks ago and it went very poorly. I overshot my mash temperature by 20⁰, had a boilover, and ended up with a really sad end product after a week's worth of fermentation. The O.G...

Am I doing something wrong or am I expecting too much? I brewed for the first time in a couple of years today and really thought it was going to go smoothly. Instead, it was horrible. I overshot my mash temperature which set the stage for the rest of the day. It got even worse when I moved the...

I noticed a bit of a pungent smell coming from my mash tun, so I cleaned it with OxyClean, followed by two rounds of hot water rinse. It now smells more pungent than before (or maybe I just think it does). I'm afraid to use anything else to clean the kettle because I don't want to taint future...

A couple of weeks ago, I brewed up a Berliner Weisse following Jsmil Zainasheff's instructions/recipe in Brewing Classic Styles. I added the yeast and Lacto to the fermenter at the same time, per the book, and fermented at 67 degrees. I just transferred to keg yesterday and am extremely...

During the warm weather months, I have no problem using ground water to chill my wort. The last couple of times that I brewed, I tried using a sump pump submerged in a cooler filled with ice water on an attempt to conserve water and was pretty happy with the results. Now that temperatures here...