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Hands down best brew I've made yet. Thank you for this recipe

I think you get a lot of those banana and clove notes from the hefe yeast. If you ferment on the higher temp side you get more clove and on the lower end you get more banana notes. Or maybe it's the other way around I forget. But as far as putting bananas in your fermentor I think that could be...

3 day fermented beer can have all different kinds of smells. As long as you sanitized well everything is fine. RDWHAHB as they say. For an example... I recently brewed a hefe with oranges. After a week I opened the fermentor and it literally smelled like feces. Sulphur. A few weeks later its in...

I let both get down to 1.006. Saison yeast took a long time. French saison much faster

I've used the wyeast saison and French saison strains. I noticed the saison got stuck and took a while to finish out but the French saison took off and finished about as quickly as any other beer without temp control. Just my thoughts. Both were fermented at around 70-74.

X2 on the saison. Just made a batch last weekend. Plus this is one of my favorite styles anyway

If you live near a brew store just go buy another pack of yeast because that kind is so cheap. If not I'd say just pitch and aerate well. Should be fine. Ironically I made a DFH60 clone and used that very same yeast. All I did was hydrate and pitch. Took off like crazy. Good luck and let us know...

This is making me hungry sounds awesome. I also make bread on the day I brew with the spent grain from mashing

I would boil it in a pint of water for 10 minutes and let it cool to 70 degrees or so. I would probably cover the pot with sanitized foil after boiling and run it through an ice or cold water bath till it's 70. From that point slowly pour into the primary so you don't get any oxidation into the...

I recently brewed a hefe using white labs seasonal yeast (can't think of what it's called other than Bavarian hefeweizen) but in short I moved it to a secondary 10 days after brewing to free up a fermentor. Popped the lid off for racking with a non-homebrew drinking buddy and he almost vomited...

That would be a s$&@!?y birthday present. I hope he's wrong

Just made a double batch. Just one problem with it... It's so good that my roommates eat all of it before I get a piece. Good recipe thanks!

Yeah I have that program. I am just really bad at using it. Thanks for the help

What program did you use to make this? I want to know because this is awesome!

Brewed this one yesterday. Everything turned out great and the yeast is currently happily eating away. I used a seasonal hop called falconers flight in place of the Amarillo (roughly the same alpha acid) I also used wyeast American ale due to pacman being so hard to get my hands on. Really...