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Recipe: As-Yet-Unnamed Dunkelweizen Brewer: Devon Bain Asst Brewer: Style: Dunkelweizen TYPE: All Grain Taste: (35.0) Recipe Specifications -------------------------- Batch Size: 5.50 gal Boil Size: 7.00 gal Estimated OG: 1.056 SG Estimated Color: 18.0 SRM Estimated IBU: 12.7 IBU...

And at what point do I consider it "finished out?" When I reach target FG or close enough to it? My concern is that I've been doing something wrong that's negatively impacting the beer; but I can't figure out what it is. I use a bucket of starsan for my blowoff tube to sit in, so I can be...

For the last two batches I've done, I've been feeling that my gravity readings are way too high from primary to secondary. I haven't bottled either, yet, but something's definitely up. I did an ESB, O.G. 1.045 (right on target), Primary to Secondary gravity 1.025. My latest, a...

How much priming sugar did you use? And was it dextrose or sucrose sugar? For ~5gal, you'd be using somewhere around 5oz of dextrose and ~4.5oz of sucrose (table sugar) if my memory serves. This is by weight, mind you, not by volume. So you left behind 6x12 = 36oz or so in the carboy. That's...

Gonna take your responses in order of appearance: 1.) I had to look up the term "lautering." Apparently, I'm supposed to stir the top of the grain bed while I drain the tun? Also, 2m simply isn't viable for my setup, so something may be wrong, here. I have steel braid and I swear it will take...

Okay, so. I've just started brewing again from taking a hiatus for about a year and a half due to life issues and had to purchase all-new equipment. When I'd left off, it was a group of us from work would get together and brew a batch (all-grain at the end) just about every week. Each of us sort...