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I'm thinking of adding a stir plate to my collection of beer brewing equipment as someday I'd like to perhaps get around to brewing a lager (if I can get my pipeline deep enough to be willing to sacrifice my fermentation chiller space!). Ok, actually I'm hoping I've been a 'good boy' and...

Much to my amazement, this beer took First Place in the German Wheat and Rye Beer category (15) at the 2013 O.C. Fest of Ales. I was (and am) very new to homebrewing, but I wanted the yeast to be the star of the show for this brew so kept the rest of the recipe fairly simple and...

I'm just... stunned. I just found out that my brew took First Place in the German Wheat and Rye Beer category (category 15) at the Orange County Fest of Ales!! Specifically, I entered my beer in category 15A (Weizen/Weissbier). I still almost don't believe it. While I was hoping my beer...

Hello everyone! I have one of those little mini-kegerators, and my CO2 regulator leaks. I've called the manufacturer, and they've sent me three replacements, and they all leak from the exact same spot as well. I'm guessing I'm missing something extraordinarily simple, only I don't know what...

Ugh! Just realized I have the wrong judging date for the homebrew competition I've been planning on entering, and the brew date's already set. I'd set the brewing date figuring 5 weeks 'grain to glass' and with the mix-up, I'm looking at four. I know Hefeweizen's are good young, so two...

I just wanted to thank the forum for everything I've learned from everyone! Thanks to all the help here, I brewed my first BIAB mini-mash a few weeks ago, and I liked the process so much, I did an AG BIAB batch today. If there are any other relatively new brewers out there who want to go...

Edit: Oops! The title should be JAOM question! I feel a little silly for asking the question, since the answer seems right in the recipe itself, but given this is my first mead, I'm a little uncertain. My question is: Is it possible that the mead is done in 5-6 weeks? I made two one gallon...

Just started heating the water for my first ever mini-mash. I'm pretty excited about it. Wish me luck! Cheers!

It's been a while since I've worked a problem like this, a long while, however... In terms of chilling my wort, I've been using a series of water baths, the first one or two using room temp water to pull off the worst of the heat, and then for the final cooldown, adding ice to the bath water...

I'm in the process of planning for my first partial mash using Revvy's method in the sticky. (Edit: Apologies to DeathBrewer! Credit where credit is due. I must have gotten the BIAB sticky confused with the bottling sticky.) I'd like to try something not terribly complicated for this brew...

Sometimes I wish my Dad were still around to share my new homebrew hobby with. He was never much of a beer drinker, or any kind of drinker, really, but he was a very hands-on, do-it-yourself kind of guy. I could imagine him joining me on brew days, excited to learn about my new hobby while we...

Sigh. I'm sitting on my first bad beer. This batch is one of the couple I brewed with a friend. He doesn't like to batch prime, and we must have miscalculated on those little tablets, because this hefe is flat. And by flat, I mean F-L-A-T, flat! Having not brewed a bad beer until...

First, regarding the question above, after reading these forums, I'm pretty sure the answer is "not yet". That said, here's my situation.... I'm on day 9 on the ferment of a hefeweizen, recipe OG 1.050, measured OG 1.054, recipe FG (per BeerSmith) 1.012. Yeast used = White Labs...

I come home from work today to check on my hefeweizen that I brewed on Sunday, so it's been about 2 days in the fermenter. Sure, I'd read that Hefeweizen IV yeast (WLP380, I think) can be vigorous, but I thought, "The last hefe, different yeast, wasn't that vigorous, besides, I bet all those...

For those of you who have chest freezers with an external temperature control for use as a fermentation chiller, what do you set your temperature differential to? It would seem to me that a smaller differential would better control the fermentation temperature, but at the expense of cycling...

For those with plastic fermenting buckets.... Is some small amount of staining from the wort inevitable? I have a plastic fermenting bucket which, after bottling, I immediately soaked in an OxyClean solution overnight (along with the lid). After washing with a sponge and rinsing...

I just bottled a brew today, and wish I had a picture to share, but I wonder if it might have had a minor Brett infection. The pictures I've seen in the "Post your infections" thread here of Brett show really large bubbles atop the wort. Has anyone ever had bubbles that big that weren't some...

Hello! Looking for some information from those familiar with WLP351. In short, what will fermenting at room temp during the second week of fermentation do to the aroma/flavor profile of my hefeweizen? I'm looking to brew a weizenbier for a competition in September and am currently...

I have a hefeweizen on day 5 of fermentation, still bubbling along nicely at a consistent, even temperature in my temperature controlled 5.1 cubic foot chest freezer. But whenever I crack that lid to check on the airlock (even thought I know airlock activity is not necessary an indication, I...

I have a couple of questions regarding hefeweizens. First, I think I read they're better young, but how young? Second, some of the style guidelines I've read suggest carbonation volumes around 4.0 (give or take) and the few batches I've brewed have had much less carbonation. Being a new...