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Extract Pale Ale that got away from me. Traveling so much for work, its been 8 weeks and I haven't had time to deal with it... SWMBO said it smelled like rotten fruit. The bucket definitely didn't smell good, the sample tasted funky, hard to describe. I would guess mold, anybody familiar...

I now have a handful of bulk hops around, and would like some suggestions for varying my hops schedules using my on-hand stock. My most successful beers have been Centennial Blonde and Haus Pale Ale. I also like IPAs. I'm thinking simple varieties of those basic beers, with changing hops...

I've brewed 11 beers so far. All beers are extract + grains, partial-boils. My 2nd beer (kit pale) had an off-flavor that I never could really describe. Girlfriend said cardboard, her father said banana, I never really thought those fit, more like flat wet dog. It was drinkable but not good...

I looked all over, but can't find this. Is it necessary to boil things like yeast nutrient and other addatives? I'll be adding nutrient to stalled lemonade fermentation (ie - already started fermenting, only to 1.071). Thanks Aaron

2nd batch of apfelwein, the 6.5 gal carboy was free, so I figured, why make only 5 gallons? Last time, we did 5 gal in a 5 gal carboy with Nottingham and there was just a tiny layer of tiny bubbles in clear/filtered Martinelli's juice. This time, we have 100% fresh pressed juice (less than...

I've finally worked out a way to soak tough carboy stains in Oxyclean without the need to fill it full! I took a stopper with a hole and put a racking cane through it to go into the carboy, trimming the end so it has at least a few inches from the bottom. Put a gallon or two of water/oxy into...

I had 2 beers ready to bottle and thought I could bang them both out last night. I was also going to try washing and harvesting the yeast (for the first time) from a Red Ale. The other (Red IIPA) had been dry hopping for almost 2 weeks so it NEEDED to come out now, and the yeast wouldn't be...

SWMBO just asked me to look into this, claiming all of our cheeses have prematurely spoiled and newly opened milk curdled in 2 hours. Nothing coming up in Google/HBT-search. Is this possible? We have 2 carboys with a Brown/done and IIPA/dryhopping in the kitchen right next to the fridge...

4th beer batch (2nd IPA), my Recipe and Notes: Had one half-filled 22oz bottle with the leftover from bottling, let it carb for a week and a half then tossed it in the fridge to avoid a bomb. I tried it the other day after a week in the fridge, it wasn't very carbed (as expected), but...

Last Saturday I made the American 'Home Run' Red Ale which unplanned, was my first mini-mash, among other impromptu experiments (half dark DME, no hop bags). My girlfriend picked-up the ingredients while I was at work, so I didn't realize until I was warming water that I had grains that might...

First, I cannot and will not Lager. My family will be visiting from the East Coast in the Fall for the first time since I've started brewing (and moved from OR to CA). My Dad doesn't like a lot of my favorites (Ninkasi, DFH, Rogue, IPAs, dark/heavy ales), but does drink mass-micro-craft beer...

Finally dry-hopped an IPA (Ninkasi clone) that I moved across town while fermenting 2 weeks ago, should be ready to bottle in the next two weekends. Also brewed a California Red IIPA (5th beer) and installed my first blow-off tube yesterday! 12 hours after pitching, krausen of small bubbles...

My GF and I would love to brew a clone of this beer but we have only made 4 extract batches so far, and I was hoping some of you more experienced folk could help me piece together what little I have found about it. We just tried a Ninkasi Total Domination IPA which is almost done fermenting...

I was soaking bottles in Oxy to strip labels and came across a handful of bottles that I couldn't get fully clean. It seemed like the glue residue on my plastic scrubby might have adhered to roughness on the shoulder of the bottle. The rest wiped clean without much effort, but the shoulder...

First Brew: standard extract + steeped grains American Amber Second Brew: similar extract + steeped grains American Pale Third Brew: different all-dry extract + steeped grains American IPA + dry-hop First beer was good. Maybe a bit too malty for an amber. Second beer though, had an off...

A long-time brewer friend of mine was helping analyze my first brew (standard extract + steeped grain kit: American Amber) and suggested some unusual things (contradictory to things I've read on here). First, he said his main comment on my brew was that it lacked body. He suggested this...

First batch (American Amber), I didn't take an OG reading (recipe said 1.056). FG ended up on target (1.016). 2 weeks in bottles, and beer tastes ok, but a bit sweet and not fully carbed. Second batch today, recipe OG was 1.052 but the OG I measured from the carboy was only 1.040-ish...

I used a recipe kit for a 5-gallon batch, and didn't realize until I was done bottling, that we only got 37 12oz (I think, will recount next time I'm downstairs) bottles out of it. I used the entire 3/4 cup of corn sugar provided, which I now realize is probably too much for the...

I see that Bayou turkey fryers include a 7.5 gal kettle that is 12" wide. Are others (thicker stainless, or overall cheaper) available anywhere? I cannot find 6+ gallon pots that are narrower than 13+ inches. Thanks Aaron

What is the largest size pot people typically recommend for a regular kitchen gas stove? Can most gas stoves handle a 30 qt pot? I assume electric stoves generally have a smaller capacity? I'm talking more about damage to the stove, than variation in boil volume and time. Thanks Aaron