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Greetings all, I am going to brew a mango wheat beer. I was thinking of using frozen chunks of mango. I am looking for a beer with quite a pronounced mango flavor. Something like blue moon mango wheat. How many pounds of mango do you suggest I should add? TIA.

I have a question about yeast. It may have an obvious answer, but here it goes. I have been reading that washed yeast will only last a certain amount of generations before you loose the profile/umph of that particular strain. How do breweries create and maintain their special yeasts without...

I have hefeweizen that had an OG 1.052. Used WLP300 for the yeast. After 3 weeks it is at 1.016 for 3 consecutive days. The program I used says it should get to 1.013. Am I at least on the green with 1.016. Will anything be gained by trying to get down lower or should I pull the trigger...

Greetings all. I bought a recipe kit from my LHBS. It has 7.7 of LME and in the steeping bag is a pound of Wyermann light Munich. All the other kits I have purchased have grains like Crystal in the steeping bag. The instructions say to steep in 2-3 gallons of water(the same for the boil)...

Hey all, I just bottled my second batch, an IPA extract recipe from AHS. Everything went quite well. My first batch was a porter that I used Nottingham dry yeast. The yeast in the first batch packed in super tight and I was able to get a solid 54 bottles. The second batch I used safale 05...

After you let bottles condition for 3 weeks around 70 degrees, do you need to put them in the fridge? Or can you leave them around 70 until you want to drink em. Thanks, Derek.

Just kidding:mug: After reading through a ton of posts and following the wisdom around here, I'm happy to say I just bottled my first batch. It is a brown porter and quite tasty already. I had half bottle at the end of the run so I chilled it up and drank it. Not bad. I also brewed up a...

I just wanted to say thanks for all the great info on the forum. You all are a vault of knowledge. I just brewed up my first batch. I got a porter recipe from my LHBS. It is chugging along nicely in the fermenter. I could not believe how much stronger the hops and grains smell before you...