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No idea! How did it turn out? I'm about ready to brew it again now that the kegging system is set up! :-)

Would gelatin also capture some of the small "hops" particles as well that are part of the bottom settled layer from dry hopping?

Hmmmmm... First off DISCLAIMER: This was my first batch of homebrew ever and there are lots of modifications I plan to do before doing this recipe again... I turned out smelling like 80 Acre but tasted more like an IPA in my opinion... I did a side by side comparison and they were very...

In your current piping and valve set up you have no way to boil water without recirculating. 3 way valves do no not really have an off/closed position. They will receive the 'high level' or 'low level' signal and divert flow accordingly. You may want to check that... So if that's the case you...

5 G hoppy wheat ale - conditioning 6.5 G american wheat ale - fermenting +______ 11.5 G total 46910.5 + 11.5 = 46,922 G I have some catching up to do it appears!

What is your fermentation temp and schedule for this brew?

That would be awesome! Could you post them to this thread?

That's no good :( I'm thinking I will use a paint strainer bag and fold it over in a few layers the rubberband it to my racking canes inlet... Sanitize the begeebies out of it and give it a whirl... I have a few cleaned Corona bottles that I may fill too to monitor the visual appearance of...

Just brews my first AG beer and attempted a Boulevard 80 Acre Clone, with some slight modifications and bottled it last night. It definitely resembles the 80 Acre in taste and aroma... Mine is slightly cloudier, but I blame myself for that. Shoot me any questions you have about the attempt and...

will cold crashing take away anything from the body and general haze of a wheat beer?

Just the flakes... I feel though I have read a few places that leaving the dry hops in to long can created earthy notes to the beer and actually decrease in aroma.... Sometimes though everything that I have read/watched just kind of meshes together and I am unsure of if it is a universal beer...

Racking cane = siphon?... Am I safe to assume this is acceptable on the inlet as opposed to the outlet into the racking bucket because the paint strainer bags will not aerate the fermented wort?

Sounds like a delicious beer... The settling effect you are referencing I do not consider to be the hop haze I think that is just the nature of the wheat beer and proteins of this brew... Boulevard 80 ACRE clone. I am more concerned with the top inch or so where there is some hop particulate...

Here are some pictures, sorry I couldn't figure out how to make them smaller...

Hi all, I am at another stage in my first brewing experience where everything I read tells me to do different paths... For my first brew I decided to do a all grain brew for a wheat beer with some dry hopping during secondary fermentation... Some of the hops have leeched out of the...