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I usually stay away from wheat beers, but I had a great one a few weeks ago at Revolution Brewing in Chicago called Monument: https://revbrew.com/beer/detail/monument It is smooth from the oats with a refreshing wheat taste, and a fairly surprising hop flavor from the dry hop. A great...

I usually stay away from wheat beers, but I had a great wheat brew from Revolution Brewing in Chicago called Monument. It is smooth from the oats and brewed with white wheat malt, but with plenty of hop flavor with the dry hop: https://revbrew.com/beer/detail/monument I have a 3 gallon...

Thanks! It's just strange how all the yeast falls and only dust is swirling compared to what else I've seen. I have been using brewersfriend for water chemistry and start with RO.

I've been brewing for a year now and my last 6 or so batches have been sub par. They taste bland and the malt isn't coming through very much. I've been watching videos of other fermentation and noticed big yeast chunks swirling. While I do get Krausen and swirling tiny bubbles, the yeast...

I bought Carafa Special III thinking it was the same just that I wouldn't have to milll it. I'm now reading that is not the case. If I use the special will that have a significant negative impact on the flavor? Should I mill it?

Last couple batches turned vinegary and FG almost down to 1.000! Going to brew tomorrow and was giving my autosiphon and Thief a good cleaning when I noticed a small hole in the plastic of the Thief. Pic below. Do you think this has been my problem? I have been using it to draw samples after...

I posted this in the Brew Science section and I'm guessing I haven't got a hit yet because it is a tad too noobish. I just want to make sure that the water adjustments make sense starting with RO water and given the recipe. The recipe doesn't reference the actual starting water. Let me know...

So I'm thinking about brewing the following recipe. A 4.5 gallon batch with that amount of grain should be perfect for my setup and all the ingedients are round: AmountNameType# 11.00 gGypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 60 min)Misc1 3.00 gCalcium Chloride (Mash 60 min)Misc2 3.00 gEpsom Salt...

When bottling last night I racked my beer on top of my priming solution and when I was ready to start bottling, I turned on the spigot with the wand attached. I noticed a big air bubble shoot up the wand as the beer slowly trickled in and I heard a bubble in the bucket. After that, everything...

I'm going to assume that means I'm good. :D Thanks!

Aerated through a strainer last night and had huge foamy bubbles. I decided to clean up a little and lost track of time and about 20 minutes went by until I got to pitching the yeast. The big bubbles were gone and there was a thin foam on the top of the wort kinda like when a head recesses...