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I mostly brew belgians and hefeweizens. I was looking at bulk ordering some hops to save some money. What would you recommend for the beers above? I was thinking Hallertau.

For the most part I brew my dark strong's and dubbel's pretty much the same way, just more of the ingredients. For those of you that brew lots of Belgians, what do you do differently on either one of the brews? I am having a hard time distinguishing between 2 other than alcohol content.

Some of the Belgian breweries have a special room where they bottle condition their beers at higher than room temp, something like 75-76 degrees. I was thinking of maybe building another contraption like my son of a fermintor for bottle condition to get them to carb more quickly. I was alot...

Moving from a manual, indoor system to an outdoor system with minimal lifiting. I also wanted to start doing larger batches. This is a 2 tier stand out of wood with a pump. BK to HLT and HLT to MLT will be pumped. MLT to BK and BK to carboy will happen via gravity. The lids of the coolers...

This is the first recipe I have designed. In brewing classic styles: Belgian ales, references an interesting note on page 129 about using Orange Blossom honey and munich malt providing and interesting mouthfeel. I used some of this honey in my main, simple Hefe and it was definitely...

This is the first recipe I have designed. In brewing classic styles: Belgian ales, references an interesting note on page 129 about using Orange Blossom honey and munich malt providing and interesting mouthfeel. I used some of this honey in my main, simple Hefe and it was definitely...

It looks like the crush is not very good from online vendors. I don't own a mill so this last batch I split the grain in 4 big zip lock bags, took a 2x4 and pressed down a bit on the grains. This seemed to work as I finally got my mash eff from ~60 to ~70. The main question here is this ok...

Any studies or personal experience with this? I just stepped up to a 1200ml starter and after crashing in the fridge there was only a thin layer of clear liquid. 75% of the remaining liquid looks to have yeast still in suspension and then a small yeast cake on the bottom. Does the crashing...

First time trying to count cells and get cell viability. I have 4 mason jars from a stepped up 2L starter I am trying to get a count to compare against the calculators. The question is how do you measure yeast? I have a tight yeast "cake" in the mason jars and I need 1ml of yeast to start...

I brewed a fat tire clone on 2-9-13. I racked to a secondary after 2 weeks. This Saturday will be the 1 week in the secondary. This is probably a silly question, but can I wait another week without any harm? I am another week away from having everything I need to keg as I really disliked the...

My first post! I live in Louisiana and just bottled by first batch of beer, as well as starting my second batch. My first batch is an Exract Amber Ale which I got in a kit from some random place on the interwebz before I started to do some real research. Now I have a mini-mash Fat fire in my...