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Phenomenal advice! I will check out both of those cooling methods. 2 weeks in fermenter and two in bottles. It's been another week since and is better, but still weird. Thanks!!

Also used whirlfloc and the bottle fermentation medium was corn sugar

Six lbs lme and I think a lb of crystal. Hops at 60 and 1 min. I took the hops out after the one minute, not sure if I should have, the recipe was vague, cooling took longer than expected as I didn't have the right sink attachment and had to macguyver one at the last minute, resulting in less...

Hey everyone, I did my first extract brew and it came out ok. My non beer geek buddies were very complimentary but I'm not so impressed. There is this subtle cloying sweetness in the finish, kind of creamy, kind of tart. It's a light ale but the finish is more appropriate for a wheat. There's...

Good stuff. I'd love to know the reasoning behind using pale instead of dark. Anyone?

Good to know re: dark malt. I had the idea that using the midnight wheat (400 L) would darken it sufficiently, without adding too much roast bitter. But this is my first dark brew, and if I already knew, I probably wouldn't ask :) I do want it to be portery but very smooth. Is a half pound the...

It seems to be more of a porter, but here is what I'm currently looking at trying. 10% wheat 10% midnight wheat 5% Munich 5% crystal The rest as dark lme Also a pound of lactose and 4 oz cocoa nibs in secondary Thanks a lot for the advice! This should give me enough to try a first draft of...

Hey guys, I'm working out a recipe for a chocolatey brew. I'm pretty new at this and I'm tryin to figure out what kind of hops/schedule to balance the malt out but not add much bitterness. Any tips will be dug thoroughly

I'm looking at making this beer next. Tips on grain bill? How much wheat to thicken it up? How much wheat before it stops being porter-esque? Any help is greatly appreciated. Oh by the way, I'm mini mashing!