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Beer head. :ban: I don't know if this is a problem with my beer or if it's a good thing (because I see a lot of threads with people worrying about head retention). I seem to have the opposite problem. I've only brewed a few beers, but the ones I've brewed seem to have a really nice head...

Hmm, sounds good. Will they blend well with the other hops?

Any help out there?

So the original hop schedule for this is... 0.5oz Summit for 60min. 1.0oz Willamette for 10min. 1.0oz Cascade for 10min. I really want to use the Falconer's Flight I just bought, so I'm thinking of the following hop schedule... 0.5oz Summit for 60min. 1.0oz Falconer's for 30min. 0.5oz...

So I just bought Northern Brewer's Wheaten Beatdown extract kit and had planned to tweak it a bit with a different hop blend. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, WB is a hopped up wheat beer that includes the following hop schedule... 0.5oz Summit for 60min. 1.0oz Willamette...

Mine has been sitting in the primary for 5 months (couldn't get to it any sooner). Is it going to have yeast bite or is it ok?

I checked the grav. before I racked onto the raspberries and I had hit my mark perfectly (1.019 I believe). What should the grav. be at this point?

So I got a Raspberry Wheat kit from Austin Homebrew but decided to go with frozen raspberries instead of the extract. I had the beer in the primary for 3 weeks, then racked it on to some pasteurized raspberries. The beer has now been in the secondary for going on a week and a half. The...

Yeah, I'm thinking about starting a little blog, just to keep track of my brew notes and my tasting notes. Thanks so much guys, you have been beyond helpful yet again.

So helpful and reassuring.

So helpful and reassuring.

Hmm, I poured slowly but I did pour the whole thing. I didn't think it was a problem because I didn't see anything that looked like sediment but you are probably absolutely right, I poured the yeast into the glass. I'll be more careful next time I pour it (in 2 weeks :ban:)

Awesome, I'm definitely excited. My worry now is about the carbonation level. When I cracked it last night it had the perfect carb. except it didn't last quite long enough in the mouth. I don't really want it to carb. too much more. I realize now that, even though I used the right amount of...

Hmm, yeast bite sounds like a real possibility. That's too bad, hopefully a bit more time in the bottles will mellow that out. I mean, the beer was drinkable but not necessarily entirely enjoyable. Now I'm a little worried that me beer might overcarbonate.

So I popped open my first bottle from the very first batch I've ever done. I started brewing it on January 16th. It spent four weeks in the primary (2 normal, 2 dry hopped) and has been in the bottles for 1.5 weeks. I got that nice pop and fizz when I cracked it, and the haze rose from the...