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I just bought US Tettnager with an Alpha Acid of 6.1%. Before I used German Tettnager with an AA of 3.9%. If I adjust the ammount proportional to the AA % will my Koelsch taste the same? The math would be: 3.9%/6.1% * 68g = 43g (used in my 10gal Kolesch recipe)

I'm cold crashing a batch of Koesch down to 3.5C right now and I'm wondering if I still can harvest the yeast. Somehwere I heard it's better to harvest from a not cold crashed batch. Is this true and if so why? Is there a temperature you shouldn't go below?

So far I have made 5 gal batches and poured the wort from my turkey fryer into a plastic bucket. I used a carboy as a second fermentor before I filled the corny keg. Now I use a cut open 1/2 barrel as my boiler, make 10 gal batches and drain directly in to carboys. I wanted to see the outcome if...

Hi everyone, I just upgraded from my all grain 5 gal batch brewing to 10+gal batches. Since I travel a lot for my job I can't brew that often. So far I used it once and it works fine. The only upgrade so far is a heat resistance shield between the trukey fryer and the mash tun (not in this...

Is there something wrong with my 17th Koelsch batch? It's fermenting at about 60F in th basment for 10 days now and I still see bubbles every 15-20 seconds. I used the same yeast (Wyeast 2565 Koelsch) as always and usually the fermentation is done after 4-6 days. What is happening?

Hello everybody, I just joined the forum today. Guess the initiative reason is that I have a question regarding a all grain brew recipe. It's a wheat beer recipe I found at a brew sullpy store in Cincinnati, Oh. I brewed the malt exctract version a while ago. Today I'm into all grain brewing so...

Hi everybody, I'm new to this forum, actually the first forum I ever joined. To get so many helpful information in such a quick and easy way is just so cool. I'm a home brewer for about 1.5 years since my son gave me a little Mr.Beer set. It cought my interest quickly so I switched to...