Soma

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I am hosting a party/bbq on the 20th and wanted to have some homebrew on tap for it. Last night I brewed a 1.049 Hefeweizen w/ Weheinstephaner yeast. I'd like to have this carbed up within 12 days - can it be done? Is there any point in trying? I think my best course of action is to let it ferment for 5 days(ish) then force carb it as cold as I can. Any tips?

OLDBREW

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not likely if you are keeping the fermentation temperatures in the mid 60's. It normally takes a good 10 to 14 days on the yeast.

rjschroed

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I wanna preface this by saying I don't recommend rushing any beer but a hefe is about the only brew you'd have a chance at doing this with. Keeping in mind that the only time I take a gravity reading of a beer is right before bottling, if I were you I'd pull a gravity reading at day 8 and another at day 10, if it hasn't changed, cold crash it over night and keg it the next day and it should be good to go. I actually quit kegging so I'm not a very good source of information on the topic but there is a method for getting your beer to carb up much faster in a keg. I'm sure a quick search or stoping by the bottling/kegging forum will find you 100 threads on the topic.

Zixxer10R

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Hit it with 40 lbs of pressure for 2 days and then drop it down to serving pressure afterwards.

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bruin_ale

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A hefe is the best emergency beer, IMO. I've gone grain to glass in 10 days in a pinch, but two weeks would be pretty standard for a hefe for me.

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emetcalf

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I would leave it on the yeast for 8-9 days. Then keg it, set your regulator to whatever pressure you decide to use, cool it overnight, then roll the keg back and forth on the ground until you don't hear bubbling anymore and then a few more minutes after that. It should be good enough in time for the bbq.

OLDBREW

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you'll end up with green beer. it takes time to make a good bavarian hefe. no breweries in germany serve these beers young like you're being told. 21 days is young for these brews. you can make a sad attempt (swill) in 12 days, but I'd never serve a brew like that to guests

lumpher

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dang... to think i've been drinking swill all these years, since i love me some hefe's. i thought hefe's could be grain-glass in 17 days and be fine, or earlier in emergencies... as was said earlier, 9 days ferment, keg, cool overnight, roll slowly under pressure for an hour to charge... a hefeweizen is fine like that. i usually ferment a hefe 14 days, but i guess i know better now

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OLDBREW

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well if you are drinking 12 day old hefeweizens, you are in fact drinking green swill. roll the keg all you want, it won't meld together for at least two to three days. I've forced carbonated beers in a couple hours. They still need conditioning under co2

dwarven_stout

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I've done a couple "emergency hefes" in two weeks or less.

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