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I've been fermenting a california common beer (otherwise known as a steam beer) for about 11 days. The fermentation went well, but other beers have cleared their krausen after about 10 days. This beer has a weird krausen with foam above the beer and some foam below the beer. fermentation has...

All, I've learned a few things in brewing my first 5 beers and I wanted to share some observations: 1. Start a brewing Journal or Notebook - If you don't know what mistakes you make, you can't stop making them. When using a kit I have the kit instructions, but I've also typed out my own...

I want to brew a steam beer this weekend and Palmer's book says: 1/2 lb of Dextrin Malt and 2/3 lbs of Crystal 40 Malt. I went to the local home brew store and mistakenly asked for Malto Dextrin and ended up with Amber DME. I looked at the grain bins and couldn't find Dextrin Malt and the...

I'm confused about when to transfer a lager from the primary to the secondary. Is it simply when you measure with your hydrometer that your 2/3 of the way to terminal gravity, or should you wait for the krausen to clear? I used a kit from morebeer and they didn't list a terminal gravity. I...

As I get into all grain brewing, what is the advantage of getting a software package that I can't do with a recipe and a calculator?

I'm trying to debug my beer. :-) On Sunday I made a Pilsner Lager and an English IPA (it was my second and third brew). Using extract kits, things proceeded well. When the IPA wort was finished, I pitched a vial of burton ale and set it to ferment. That was 48 hours ago. After about 18...