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I'm wondering if they will still be able to carbonate in the bottle. One is a five gallon batch of Ed's Apfelwein using the Montrachet wine yeast and 1lb of sugar instead of 2. It is on week 9 or 10. The other is a one gallon batch of pear cider using the Cote de Blanc yeast. It is...

First and foremost: I love dunkelweizens and I like American wheats. My favorite beer on Earth is the Aventinus wheat dopple. I do not like hefeweizens -- too sour. Sitting at home I have: 3lbs of wheat DME 1 lb of roasted barley 2 oz tettnanger (3.9 aa) 2 oz hallertau (4.5 aa) Wyeast...

I don't generally crosspost stuff but this got me pretty irritated and I thought people should know what's going on. So much for freedom of expression. http://www.nbc17.com/midatlantic/ncn/news.apx.-content-articles-NCN-2007-09-11-0027.html SAMPSON COUNTY, N.C. – On the sixth anniversary...

When I started this little hobby last year I just drank myself enough empties to bottle the homebrew. Per SWMBO, this is no longer and option. Besides, I finally dragged my butt back to the gym to get rid of the last year's worth of experimentation and I don't want to undo that. Since...

No, not with homebrew. But, almost as good since I'll be keeping all of the bottles. I don't have a budget yet but I'm guessing I'll be picking up about 4 or 5 cases of beer. I figure I'll get bud, coors light and killians to keep the bmc drinkers happy and then a bunch of Sam Adams for the...

I brewed a dunkelweizen 5 weeks ago and just gave it a taste. The initial taste is a nice sweet wheat malt flavor followed by getting hit in the face with a dozen bananas. Recipe: 6lbs wheat DME 1lb chocolate malt steeped at 155 x 1hr tettnanger hops (30 minutes) Wyeast 3068...

I know this has popped up before but the search turns up an awful lot of threads. In the past I've done Ed's Apfelwein and felt like making a slight variant. I used 5 gallons of Juice 1 lb of Dextrose (8.5% is a bit high for a quick refresher) Cote des blanc yeast Yeast energizer...

I came across the thread in which some people were getting those Sam Adams glasses and got to wondering what all is out there regarding organization. I found the AHA pretty easily and on the website they mention being the only national organization. Is this true? Do a lot of people here...

So, I was racking my dunkelweizen into secondary last night and it got me wondering. I used 3lb of light wheat DME and 3lb of amber wheat DME, which is the core of the beer as I understand it. Also used were 1lb of 60L crystal and 1lb of chocolate malt plus tettnanger hops and Wyeast #3068...

A couple people gave me a case of empties and I put them in our master bathtub with some bleach to sanitize them and take the labels off. They were probably in the tub for a couple weeks. Well, today I finally got around to getting the bottles out and there is a black rim around the water...

I brewed an extract Nut brown ale back in November and cracked the first bottle around Christmas time. It tasted kind of like taking a sip of a generic dark ale and then eating a mouthful of my yard. An experienced friend said it tasted like stale ingredients (it was a kit) and I was going...

My blackberry wheat has been fermenting in primary for 8 days now and it's still bubbling away at 3-4 bubbles/minute. The directions state to rack to secondary around days 5-7. It consists of 6.6 lbs of extract, 2 lbs of amber DME and 5 lbs of blackberries with an OG of 1.065. The frozen...

So I'm reading the bad brewing techniques and I noticed one in there about using a half gallon growler for a 1.5 qt starter. Hmm... I was planning on making a starter tonight, it will be the first time I do so, and I was going to make 1L in a 1L vessel that would allow perhaps 100-200cc of...

My buddy has a grain mill that I've used in the past but I don't want to drive all the way over to his house. He told me he's used a coffee grinder in the past but I don't think we have one. We do have a magic bullet. It will blend the hell out of the grains. Think that's okay or would it...

I don't quite understand this concept yet. At the beginning when adding the yeast you want to shake up the wort to get plenty of oxygen in there for the yeast. But, later when transferring to a secondary you want to prevent shaking and splashing or you'll wind up with oxidized, stale beer...

I planned on making a blackberry wheat from the below ingredients: 6.6lbs Irks Wheat extract 1-2 lbs Amber Dry Malt Extract 2 cups Carapils 1 1/2 oz Hallatter hops (bittering) 1 tsp Irish moss 1/2 Saaz hops (finishing) 3 1/2 quarts FROZEN blackberries added to help cool wort 1...

The one bag I have is not large enough to steep the 1.5lbs of crystal I'm using. I have some clean, unused automotive cheese cloth that's generally used for waxing a car. I tied one end closed and inverted it to make a little bag. Think that would be acceptable or is the cheese cloth a poor...

I'm making a bass clone using extracts and the Wyeast 1098 Brit propogator. I was planning on brewing today but read the yeast instructions and they describe making a starter over 48 hours, which creates a bit of a problem. First, I don't have the dry malt extract to make the starter. But...