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When I used to do extract batches, I would use my bottling bucket to mix the water and the wort. I used a plastic stirring paddle to mix it up well, then I used a big funnel to pour from the bucket to the carboy. I did cool the wort first, before pouring it in the plastic bucket though.

I would suggest mashing in the 154-155 area. You can also add about 5-10% golden naked oats for even more body.

"unfermented beer soda" is exactly what Malta Goya is. It's been sold for years. It's just unfermented, carbonated beer from what I understand. I'm not sure if it is hopped though.

Cream Ale American Pale Ale Dry Hopped Cream Ale 80 /- Scottish Ale Belgian Amber Ale Belgian Dubbel Two Belgian Tripels in secondary Hefeweizen Belgian Witbier Kölsch Belgian Blonde In primary: 15 gallons of Scottish 90 /-

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/my-corona-clone-input-please-26614/ There's a recipe in that thread. If that one does not suit you, there are more recipes in other threads. You may also want to give the recipe database here a look through. The problem with what you are wanting to do is that...

Are you just trying to make a Mexican style light lager- a la corona? Or are you trying to make something darker like Negro Modelo? We need a bet more info to go on here.

Also +1 on the temp control. My brews experienced a significant jump in quality after I got one of those Ranco digital temp controllers.

+1= 312 It popped out as I was shutting the drawer that it was housed in. Broke it really well.

It seems to me that if you're fermentation temperatures are not the culprit, then another source could be underpitching your yeast. Belgian brewers who typically want lots of ester production, intentionally underpitch their yeast. This causes the yeast to have to do alot of reproduction. That...

Vinator with a bottle tree. You can sanitize many bottles quickly with that equipment.

I got my first score off of craigslist 2 weeks ago. 8 cases of old school returnable bud light and miller bottles. Plus, one full case of grolsch swing tops. What was the price? 5 bucks a case. I am in love with craigslist now.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/carbing-growler-220997/ The thread is about carbonating in a growler, but revvy makes a great post about what is different about filling bottles with pre-carbonated beer versus carbonating in the bottle.

Lindeman's also has a Grand Cru that is a straight sour beer with no fruit.

I don't know about the other variables, but I'm positive that the candi sugar helped to push your FG down.

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