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"Special Edition" fridge now made even more special!

The thing is almost done

It's drinkable now, still a bad beer but better than some especially bad store-bought wheat beers I've had. Aroma is completely sour banana, taste is plain and slightly sour, but greatly improved with the addition of a slice of orange. It's refreshing, hopefully by the next hot summer day it'll...

Started two batches on Sunday. Apple juice from a local orchard. Non-pasteurized, just screen filtered. Frozen, then thawed; I'm hoping this will slow down the natural yeasts. Juice was 10.8 Brix. 24L apple juice, 1kg dextrose, Lalvin EC-1118 yeast. I'll let you know in six months how it tastes!

Tried the first bottle, still tastes bad, but tastes more like a banana. An unripened banana grown in desert sand. Maybe a few more weeks?

That's right... must have glossed over that part and skipped to the 45 minute hops.

A little update, it has been in secondary. The smell is not so bad now, but is far from pleasant. It tastes exactly the same, awful, however the smell probably has a lot to do with it. The colour is normal, and exceptionally clear. another beer, an english bitter, fermented in the same bucket...

Green Line Hose and Fittings on Venables. They do cash and carry and have all manner of hoses, and fittings. Their food-safe hose is mostly PVC but they have lots of silicone hose for other applications. They also have "brewer's hose" that is supposed to stand up better to high alcohol content...

Come to think of it, there was another change in method. Usually I use leaf hops and screen them out when I pour into the fermentor, but this time I used pelletized hops in a bag during the boil, then lifted them out and squeezed out the wort before siphoning. It was my first time using...

It smelled like feet before you hit the shower after a long day...

It's my first all-grain wheat beer so I didn't really know what to expect, but I certainly didn't expect feet. I considered throwing it away, I guess continuing as normal was a good choice... after all it doesn't cost me anything to keep it in a carboy. I found the recipe on this web site, I...

Made an all-grain beer last saturday, mostly wheat malt and pilsner malt. I usually mash 60 min and boil 60 min but this recipe wanted a 90 minute mash and 45 min boil. The only equipment change was I made a wort cooler from copper tube. It was immersed in the boiling wort for 10 minutes before...