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Brewed this for the first time about 3 weeks ago. Only change was a 90 minute boil (with a 90 minute hop addition) because it was really cold and windy which led to me having trouble maintaining a good boil for the first 30 minutes....then i ran out of propane....twice...) Other than that...

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I ordered 6lb of hops from http://nikowbrew.com on Black Friday and when the package arrived, 5 of the 6 lbs were no longer vacuum sealed and couple of bags had obvious holes in them. I had no way of knowing how long they'd been like that and, since I don't have a vacuum sealer at the moment, I...

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Look for DeathBrewer's thread on Easy Partial Mash Brewing and try his Dunkleweizen recipe. It's very simple and tastes pretty close to Franziskaner, from what I remember.

Thanks for posting that recipe. :D I think that's the same one I got my grain bill from, but I was a bit worried about the IBUs since I think Fat Tire is actually much lower than that. From BYO: I haven't had Fat Tire in a while but I don't remember it being particularly hoppy, which is...

So, I've been looking for a good Fat Tire clone recipe for the last couple of days and have come across about 10 different recipes, all with different grain bills and hop schedules. Since a lot of the hop schedules called for Fuggles and neither I nor my LHBS have any Fuggles, I've narrowed it...

Again, I used 1 packet of Nottingham yeast and it started fermenting 14 days ago. :) It fermented fine for about a week and then slowed considerably. Not sure about the krausen, as it was in a bucket with the lid on, but there as a ring of gunk above the beer level, indicating that there...

I threw together a batch 2 weeks ago with some ingredients I had laying around. The airlock in the primary stopped bubbling after about a week and I racked it to secondary last night (13 days in primary). although the fermentation appeared to be complete, the SG was at 1.022 (OG was 1.050)...

After a long layoff from brewing (2+ years) I decided to get back into it recently and brewed 2 batches last weekend. The 2nd batch was brewed using this method and the Dunkleweizen recipe posted by Deathbrewer. I just checked the SG and took a taste and I have to say that this is not only the...

Actually, I've been brewing with Listermann's kits exclusively for my first 3 batches. They are my local brew supply house and they tell me that their extract turns over very frequently so that it is fresh. They draw the bulk extract out of large barrels when you buy the kits there. One thing...

A friend gave me some brewing equipment that he has had laying around for years (probably 3-4 years). Inluded in this was a Brewer's Best German Altbier kit. I threw out the cans of extract and the yeast packet, but I'm wondering if the hops and grains are still good? The hops are in vaccuum...