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I brewed my last batch last August (a spin off of Southern Tier Creme Brulee stout) but I only bottled in late April. The batch has a very high smell and taste of nail polish remover. I looked and saw that this is usually caused by high fermentation temps and under pitching. I ruled under...

Last August I brewed a stout and had plans to bottle it that same month. Unfortunately things took a turn for the worst and I just bottled it tonight. So basically last August I had come down with an ear infection. Didn't think much of it as I just let it run it's course. A few days into it...

So I visited Southern Tier Brewing Company this past weekend and it was alot of fun. Lakewood, New York is actually really nice. The brewery was in a business park off a main road and the facility itself was mostly a big warehouse. They have their own bar their called The Empty Pint which is...

So this is the first summer I've brewed beer and yesterday I noticed 3 dead fruit flies in the neck of my airlock. After doing so research on some old threads it looks like people are divided as to how to proceed with a situation like this. So I have some questions: 1. Is there anyway my...

So for my last 4 batches or so I've ordered all my supplies online even though I have a great LHBS not to far from me. I'm starting to feel bad for not giving him the proper business, however supplies in total are about $10 cheaper online (even after shipping). I go there for odds and ends...

Has anyone notice that there's just certain beers out there that automatically give you heart burn? Every time I drank a Rolling Rock in college (when they were still in Latrobe, PA) I got a ton of heart burn. Lately it seems every time I pick up a Yuengling I get heart burn as well. Is it...

So I went to my favorite six pack shop (can't get beer in grocery stores or gas stations in PA) and picked up some beer. To my surprise it looked like their prices had jumped up from the last time I was there. Here's a few gems I saw in prices: - Brew Dog's beer was $8 dollars for a 12 oz...

So a few weeks ago I had issues (pain) with my kidneys. I went to the doctor and got urine tests, blood tests, an ultrasound, and a CT scan and everything came up fine. After a few weeks the pain went away. However, it seems to come back in one kidney whenever I drink homebrew. Today I...

Ah those damn saisons, I never knew they'd be so much trouble until I brewed it. :drunk: I brewed a saison and it's been in the primary for a month now using WLP565. The OG was around 1.068 and it's currently at 1.020. I cranked the temps up to 85+ while it was fermenting and tilted the...

So right now I have a full time job where the pay is decent and the job itself is easy as hell. However, the benefits really blow. I was doing some casual job searching and I got a phone interview with this small company. They liked my phone interview and want to bring me for an interview in...

So I've been kicking around the idea of going all grain, but the problem is that I live in the city in a town house. I don't have a yard, or any grass really, it's cement everywhere. There's no room in the driveway either because it's filled with cars. The brew in a bag methods might be...

So I was reading another forum about hipsters and I searched for the term on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%281990s_subculture%29 There was one section that I found interesting: I was a bit confused by this because everyone I've approached have equated homebrewing to...

So I "brewed" up some apfelwein in mid-January and I bottled it 3 weeks ago. I used a variety of plastic bottles I had around and filled them up with the apfelwein. I had heard that alot of people do this without any issues. However, some of the bottles are swelling up to the point where it...

So I just brewed up a saison today (which was quite the feat considering the condition of my kitchen) and I had a question about the yeast fermentation temperature. I've been reading that saison yeast need to be pretty high in temperature, however I currently don't have the conditions to get it...

Well, when I came home today my whole town house kind of smelled. I went to my back kitchen where I always brew and witnessed a gigantic disaster. The woman in the apartment above me let her tub overflow and my entire ceiling came down! Unfortunately sewage water and plaster got all over my...

So I've been doing alot of searching on lagering and I was wonder if this Home Depot chest freezer would be sufficient for lagering...

So for the past few weeks I've been having pain in my kidney. After several tests, no one can determine quite what it is, but it may be an embedded kidney stone. What was surprising is that everyone (who isn't a doctor) is blaming this on my homebrewing. When I first told my parents about...

So I was thinking about making an order to Midwest Brewing and one of the items in my order is liquid yeast (WL570). After doing some searching, there's some debate as to whether or not you should buy liquid yeast through the mail. Does anyone know if Midwest ships their yeast with ice packs...

So here's my dilemma, I want to brew another batch of beer but I'm pretty much out of bottles (and room for the bottles) completely. What would be a good style or recipe that I could brew which would benefit from being left in the primary for well over a month? In that time period, I'm sure...