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great looking recipe! I'm looking for my next lager. This may be it. Congrats on your score, BTW.

Weyerman is a German Maltster

Try your Mr. Beer recipes with some Belgian yeast strains if you want to ease yourself into the styles.

Sure you can. The only reason to bring temps down slowly is if your yeast isn't finished yet. Let the yeast finish at fermentation temps and crash it. Cold crash it and then lager it.

The author of How to Brew has since gone on air and specifically stated otherwise, BTW. Check out the Brew Strong episode on Lagering.

Lagering is a verb Lager is a noun The use of one does not necessarily produce the other. No matter which beer you store at cold temperatures, you are lagering it. The lagering phase is in place to drop things out of solution, not to let yeast "clean things up." Let the yeast finish at...

Thanks Another question: What is 50785k94 part for? I got it from the parts list and it's in the same listing as the any-which-way but I don't see the relationship between them. Thanks again

Finally getting some more time to look into this. I don't understand how you keep the stoppers in place for the thermometers. Are they just shoved in the holes and they hold up?

Yes, absolutely. I didn't imply that it is not fermenting. I was simply pointing out that there is a difference in "primary fermentation" and "primary fermenters." http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter8-2-2.html I don't want my beer to be 100% complete when I rack. I still want to...

I'm assuming this was an extract kit? If so, my first and only Pilsner extract kit did the same thing. If you boiled the extract for any length of time, you helped the extract have maillard reactions (browning as you would see on caramalized onions, the black parts on a steak, etc). Before I...

This is true, but a matter of personal preference. "Primary fermentation" by definition may be over before you ever get close to FG. I frequently rack to a secondary after Krausen has fallen. I've done the hydrometer in a secondary thing before and the most difficult things were keeping it...

In the 90/-, would you want a .5 BU/GU ratio? I would think that it would be lower than that.

+1 I've brewed probably 20 batches on this thing over the past 7 months and I have no issues with it. I did not install the upright stabilizers and I cut the lead to the safety probe. Also, I don't even use the regulator ON the stand. That's all the way up. I use the regulator on the...

Yeah, I'd say that helped your high(er) FG. I'm absolutely certain the beer is going to taste good though.

Or the German Ale yeast