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I brewed up a high-gravity wort and racked it on top of a healthy White Labs Oktoberfest yeast cake (left in the bottom of a carboy from mid-gravity lager that previously inhabited the carboy). This is a trick I use in place of making a yeast starter. OG: 1.130 stuck fermentation gravity...

Has anyone else noticed the bizarre reaction that occurs when your iodophor sanitizing solution comes in contact with anything that has had honey on it? It leaves a purple residue behind. I've been experimenting with honey beers lately and for the longest time couldn't figure out why the hose...

I have been struggling with a Barleywine I made almost a year ago. There has been no activity in the air lock for several months though it still had a suspiciously high gravity reading of 1.029. It was suggested that I bottle it up and forget about it for another couple months. 2 weeks...

I'm pretty sure the answer to my question is "no," something to do with oxidizing the beer or something... Anyway, I have a Barleywine Ale that is stuck. Its O.G. was 1.085. After dumping tons and tons of yeast into it I've managed to get the specific gravity down to 1.026. Thats still too...

I don't like to waste things, and so when I'm brewing I often make up a 5-gallon batch of sanitizing solution and use it to clean everything. I start out by making it in my sanitizing bucket, dump everything in there, then rack the solution into the keg/carboy. I'll rack the solution from...

I've seen a couple posts on this topic, but none of them have pictures (despite every single reply saying "post a pic"). So here is my post with pictures to help me and anyone else in the future who has this problem. This is an Oktoberfest in the secondary carboy. It spent 2 weeks in the...