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Does a lower temperature cause a beer to ferment slower? Reason I ask is that I've got a honey wheat in the fermenter, been there for 9 days. Took an SG reading today, and it isn't down to where it needs to be yet (it's at 1.020, needs to be about 1.010) , which isn't unusual, but there seemed...

Hey all - We just brewed our pumpkin ale, turned out awesome. We used a Wyeast smack pack, and pitched the yeast as normal. I was headed off to bed and I had to look at it one more time. Shockingly, there are little white spots on the top of our beer! What the heck is that? Is it just blobs of...

We started off with this recipe for a vanilla stout and we had to change things up a bit due to circumstances (ie the local HBS out of certain items) and we ended up with an OG of 1.040 and a FG of 1.012. I highlighted our changes in bold. So....what would you classify this bad boy as? It's...

We started off with this recipe for a vanilla stout and we had to change things up a bit due to circumstances (ie the local HBS out of certain items) and we ended up with an OG of 1.040 and a FG of 1.012. I highlighted our changes in bold. So....what would you classify this bad boy as...

I'm getting ready to brew up my holiday brew, the recipe I used was more guidelines, than an actual recipe, so here's what I came up with. What's everyone think?:ban::mug: Type: Extract Date: 11/3/2010 Batch Size: 5.00 gal Boil Size: 6.00 gal Asst Brewer: Boil Time: 60 min Equipment...

I'm getting ready to brew up my holiday brew, the recipe I used was more guidelines, than an actual recipe, so here's what I came up with. What's everyone think? Type: Extract Date: 11/3/2010 Batch Size: 5.00 gal Boil Size: 6.00 gal Asst Brewer: Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: Brew...

I have a batch of cider in the works right now, and it's been goin like crazy! :ban: My OG was 1.050 and yesterday it seems to have slowed down so I took a SG reading and it was at 1.024. That seem high to anyone else? I'm shooting for about 1.014 so hopefully it'll continue to drop, but it...

First batch has been goin since Saturday and it's been fermenting furiously! :ban: OG was 1.050, I know it should be in the 1.06x range, but hey, lessons learned. Anyway, seems like the fermentation is finally slowing so I took a grav reading and a taste. First off, it is DAMN good! Slightly...

I went down last night to the basement to check on my first batch of cider that has been happily bubbilin right along since Saturday night and BAM!! :eek::eek::confused: Hit with this: It was still releasing CO2 while that sucker was full, so, after I cleaned and sanitized the plug and...

I got my first batch of cider underway using the recipe for Sweet Southern Cider I got off of here. Everything seems to be going well and it's already bubbling away. It started after just 10 hours. :ban: The OG on it was 1.050. I know it should be in the 1.06x range, but I now know we should...

I converted (with some help:D) an AG recipe to Extract. Can someone tell me if I missed something or am going in a completely different direction? Here's the Original Recipe: OG was .1060 and FG was 1.043 10lbs maris otter 1lb caramel malt 20L 1lb german dark wheat .50lb 2-row...

I've got a good recipe for a Lazy Magnolia Southern Pecan clone. As you might imagine, it requires pecans. I know the oils in nuts generally ruin the head of the beer, but the guy that created the clone roasted the pecans 3 times to remove the oils and had good success. My question is, when...

I've got a recipe for an AG that I REALLY want to do, but I don't have a way to convert it from AG to Extract yet. Can someone do that for me real quick? Here's the recipe: 10lbs maris otter 1lb caramel malt 20L 1lb german dark wheat .50lb 2-row carapils .25lb english chocolate malt...

Our FG on our nut brown ale had a suggested FG of 1.011-1.014 Ours finished (2 readings, 3 days apart) at 1.016. How big of a deal is this and what can we do to prevent this next time?

Our first batch is done fermenting :ban: and yes I know becuase I took a grav reading three days apart and it didn't move (FG is 1.016). Since our primary is our bottling bucket, (already got another primary so we don't have to do this again) we have to rack to a carboy anyway so we can clean...

I see that Beersmith will convert a recipe to Extract if need be, but will BeerAlchemy do that as well? How accurate is their conversion? I'm currently only doing extract brews until an AG setup is possible. I'm on a Mac, but have Fusion on it running Windows 7 so either or is good with me. I...

I read the few threads I could find on this topic, but I am REALLY wanting to get something close to this done in time for Thanksgiving. Seems like a few got close, but didn't report back. Don't have a setup for AG yet, so if you have one that is or can be converted to extract, that'd be...

Well, our first batch has been in the primary for a week now, so I took our first gravity read tonight, came in at 1.013. Here's a pic of the brew: Does everything look normal to you guys? It smells like beer so that has to count for something! Thanks in advance y'all

In our excitement to start our first batch, :ban: we probably didn't think something through. In our gear kit that we got, it has a 5g carboy and a 6.5g bucket with a spigot. Naturally, the "instructions" led us to believe that we should use the bucket as our primary because it said to put the...

Howdy all, Just started in on this hobby and seems to be going pretty well as we have our first batch (nut brown ale) in the fermenter as of Monday. :D Here's the question, our primary is a 6.5g bucket, which I assume that we'll bottle out of too seeing as how it has the spigot on it. The guy...