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Cream and wheat lagers

Lag time is fine, as i'm leaving town for a few months. I just want to be sure it will work.

Doesn't look that active but I've never used lager yeast before. I pitched it in at cold temp and then stuck it in my 50 degree cellar. I'm only really using it because it's too cold for ale. Thoughts? Think it'll go dormant? What should I expect to see? Thanks interbrewers

I manually fly sparge and continually heat up sparge waters in big kitchen pots

Nugget! First yield, didn't prune at all, so they matured at slightly different rates on different stalks. So a few are a bit browner. Smell great!

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Is it useful to plant one plant per strain or do I need more to put a meaningful amount into beer? What's a recommended number per strain? Thanks!

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What's the cold steep for?

I'm pretty sure tortilla chips are made of husked grain. Those husks are pretty inedible.

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For stuff like this start warming the oven to a low temp, then turn off at 120 to 150 degrees. Throw stuff in there to dry and it won't rust.

Happy beer dude!

So I used the roller mill instead of the Corona at the LHBS this time (thought roller mill was for "bulk" bulk orders - turns out roller was for bulk pale malt in an all grain batch and Corona is intended for specialty grains...derrr) and my efficiency went from 60 to 75 just like that...

Latest version: 7 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 50.9 % 5 lbs White Wheat Malt (2.4 SRM) Grain 2 36.4 % 1 lbs 8.0 oz Wheat, Torrified (1.7 SRM) Grain 3 10.9 % 4.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 4 1.8 % 0.25 oz Summit [11.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 5 9.6 IBUs 0.25...

I don't think you need to do it all to be a vet...more like have an established, repeatable, and predictable brewing methodology and routine, and to have a few problems resolved and under the belt.

Oops, you're correct. Boil should be 90 minutes and increased evaporation will be noted. Thanks!

Bierliebhaber - there're only 2.8 oz of caramel wheat malt - that doesn't seem like much to me, did you perhaps read lbs instead? In regards to the 90 minute boil and general grain bill complexity, those attributes are derived from this Lagunitas Sumpin Sumpin recipe...

Could I get some comments on my half-wheat beer? Lemme know what you guys think! Thanks! I look forward to the thoughts of those more experienced than I. Type: All Grain Date: 1/6/2012 Batch Size (fermenter): 5.00 gal Brewer: Boil Size: 6.22 gal Asst Brewer: Boil Time: 60 min...

Turns out my cellar is cold beyond the specs of my ale yeast. I have a cream ale and porter in there now. They've been in there around 3 days now, and besides a slow start look healthy and airlocks are bubbling away. Could this turn out badly? Might the beer not finish right (attenuate...