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so i brought my hydrometer back to my LHBS and it turns out they sold me the wrong one. i had a liquor hydrometer (which measures liquids with significantly lower SG than beer). i got a new one and it works well. FG came out to 1.014, a bit higher than the kit's specified 1.010-1.012, but...

how do steeped grains affect OG and hop utilization? i'm using the strangebrew software, which seems to handles steeped grains as if they're being dissolved in the boil. correct me wrong, but wouldn't they have no affect on the OG of the boil upon removal?

great, thanks!

So I hope this isn't a bad sign... my first batch is in secondary, and I noticed some gray circular spots on the surface of the beer. They're definitely not growing or fuzzy or anything so I'm not too worried, but I thought it would be best to ask anyway.

hmm... well here it is: 3.3# Bavarian Wheat LME (65% wheat, 35% pils) 3# Pilsen Light DME 4# Wheat Malt 0.5# Flaked Oats 1 oz Bramling Cross 60min 0.5oz Saaz 20min 0.5oz Saaz 10min 1 tsp Irish Moss 15min 1 oz Orange Peel 10min 1 oz Coriander 10min WLP400 Belgian Wit Ale Yeast...

so after some more time messing with things, i thought it would be fun to (try to) keep the color of a true witbier while boosting the OG and ABV to bock levels. i tweaked a few other things too. 3.3# Bavarian Wheat LME (65% wheat malt, 35% base malt) 2# Pilsen Light DME 6# Wheat Malt 1...

that's my question... i've seen oats listed as an ingredient in extract recipies. i don't know how that's possible if they need to be mashed.

can you point me to where i can buy oat mash? i'm having trouble finding it.

I'm in the middle of developing a Witbier recipe, and I want to add some Oats. I haven't tried AG yet, and just want to stick with Extract and Steeped Grains for now. Anyway, I'm using StrangeBrew software, and it's telling me not to use Oats without dealing with mashing. Does that mean that I...

7# Bavarian Wheat LME (65% wheat malt, 35% base malt) 2# Pilsen Light DME 1# Crystal 10 1 oz Hallertauer 60 min 0.5 oz Saaz 60 min 0.5 oz Saaz 5 min 1 tsp Irish Moss 15 min 0.5 oz Orange Peel 10 min 1 oz Coriander Seed 10 min WLP400 Belgian Wit Ale Yeast OG: 1.069 FG: 1.017...

my hydrometer is another problem in itself. i have no idea what i'm doing wrong... i have a true brew hydrometer that came in a plastic cylinder. i fill the cylinder with beer, put the hydrometer in it, and it floats so high that the entire scale is above the top of the liquid, leaving me...

I just moved my first batch (True Brew Pale Ale) to secondary. The instructions on the kit say that fermentation should be done after 72 hours, and that it should be ready to bottle within a week. I noticed that the airlock stopped bubbling after 24 hours, but I waited another day just to be...

i was filling the tube to about 2/3. david_42's probably right... i didn't stir it very much. will that ruin the final product? one more question... fermentation began at about 10:00pm last night. when is it okay to open the lid to take a peek and take a hydrometer reading?

Maybe I'm just stupid, but when I tried to take my OG reading, the hydrometer floated so that the wort was below the bottom of the scale, leaving me with no reading. I spooned some wort into the tube that the hydrometer came in, dropped the hydrometer into the wort, spun it around, and...

thanks, i really appreciate the help. flyguy, i was planning to do 1/2 batch because, as flyguy said, i don't currently own a pot large enough for the full batch. if i used 100% of the yeast and 50% of everything else, would anything else be affected besides the fermentation time...

Hey everyone. I'm about to start brewing my first batch. I was thinking about doing only 1/2 batch the first time for a few reasons, and I have a few related questions. 1. Is it safe to assume that I should just use 1/2 quantity of everything? (hops, extract, yeast, water0 2. Should I...

Hey everyone. I'm about to start brewing my first batch. I was thinking about doing only 1/2 batch the first time for a few reasons, and I have a few related questions. 1. Is it safe to assume that I should just use 1/2 quantity of everything? (hops, extract, yeast, water0 2. Should I...