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Oh well...I don't think I'm going back to the shop so I guess I can just use honey to replace the sugar lost by the half pound less of malt, is there a rough conversion for the honey malt to honey?

Going to make a pilsner this week, went to the brew shop and they were out of honey malt, my recipe called for .5lb honey malt, anyone know how much honey would be a good substitute? 6lb Pils tworow .5lb Carapils .5lb Crystal 10L .5lb Honey Malt .5lb Biscuit Malt 1oz Sazz 5 min 1oz...

Thank you to all, I just drank my dunkel and it was great. I did siphon with my mouth but soaked the parts that came in contact with starsan, I also rinsed out my mouth with scope as an extra precaution. No infection!!!:mug::mug:

Question, I have an 8 gallon pot, can I fill this pot with StarSan start a siphon with my mouth, then let the parts of the tubing/racking cane to have contact with the beer stay in contact with the StarSan solution for 5 mins, and then move the cane into the beer to siphon into bottling tank...

Ok so I'm going to do an all grain dunkelweizen next weekend, I'm buying malted wheat and the supplier says it requires a protein rest. As far as I know protein rest increases clarity (not important for this style) does anyone have any recommendations on what to do here. Is the protein rest...

What percentage of bill is typically used?

Hi all, One question I have is about rice hulls, are they necessary if the bill is only half wheat? Other than that here is my recipe any comments good or bad are appreciated, Thanks! Boil = 5gal Batch = 4gal 4lb White Wheat 2 lb Munich Light 1 lb Vienna 1 lb 20L Crystal .5oz Tettnanger @30...

Hey all, I'm writing a recipe for a wheat beer I'm going to try doing in a few weeks. Here it is what do you think? One thing, I've never used carapils before, I heard its supposed to be used only for about a half hour in the mash, is a pound too much or too little or just right? 4 gallons...

Does anyone know of any good resources online that provide the flavor profiles of grain and hops varieties?

I meant that my batch was 3 gallons total. I did add water to the boil. I decided not to sparge because I thought it wouldn't make a huge difference in extraction. Would not sparging make that much of a difference?

Oh well, live and learn, I used a 7 gallon cylindrical cooler, I did the mash at 153 for 60 min, do you suppose that since I used 2 gallons of water for ~8 lbs grain and added the rest of the water later there should have been more water in the mash to maybe help extract more sugars??

amen to that

Maybe you should try splitting it into more than one kettle, if there are any complex carbohydrates in your extract they will not get used in the fermentation, boiling helps break down those into simpler sugars.

I suppose it would be a steam beer by definition although I didn't know that was a style before I started, I picked out the yeast because it seemed like the most robust yeast and that would be good since I figured I'd make some mistakes. The beer has been in the fermenter for about a week, I...

Ya, I would imagine that the efficiency for all grain will be lower than extract. I used San Fransico Lager yeast, regardless I'll wait until the readings are constant before bottling since thats the best I can do, do you think 2 days of constant SG is good enough or longer?