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Sorry guys, been very busy and haven't been on the forums much. Beer turned out awesome. Not too sweet(neither the wife or I like sweet beers) and very hefty banana aroma. The banana flavor was much stronger right after bottling, but is definitely still present. The wife is definitely a fan...

So....brewing my first big beer this coming Sunday but only have Growlers for doing my starter(my first starter at that). I started it yesterday afternoon with a 100gram DME/1L starter. Using this calculator http://www.brewersfriend.com/yeast-pitch-rate-and-starter-calculator/, it looks like...

I'm in. Thanks for the opportunity!

I'm in! Thanks for all the giveaways!

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Sweet. I'm in!

I'm slowly getting there lol. Appreciate the help y'all. We'll see how she turns out, in the meantime, I have some more notes to take on what to do differently during my next session.

I actually filled my carboy 1 gallon at a time today and marked it off so the 2.2 is pretty accurate. Now that I think about it though, that was in the carboy, not the kettle and there was some left in the kettle with the trub. Does the hydrometer reading need to be corrected for wort temp...

I did measure post boil gravity which was 1.082 prior to top off. Which would actually put me lower at a 1.036. I'm actually ok with that since this is supposed to be a lighter beer anyhow. Thanks for the formula. Glad I took a post boil gravity today. What is the ABV calculation using...

5gal. partial mash. The recipe from Quirky is from Beersmith and I input the same ingredients into Beersmith just to check it. The estimated OG is from Beersmith as well.

Brewed my 3rd batch today and my OG in the fermenter came out at 1.068 and expected OG was 1.049. Recipe was from a Quirky Homebrew Supply a LHBS. Recipe was followed exactly other than messing up the hops a bit. Any thoughts on why the OG came out so much higher? American Citra Here 0.5...

Thanks for the heads up!

My take on this just went into secondary on Monday night on top of 5lbs of bananas. Nothing crazy for bubbles in the blowoff yet, but definitely moving. It is in a bucket so can't tell if it's just CO2 or active fermentation. I used the Dunkel recipe below from my LHBS and added the 0.5lbs of...

Just a note. I brewed a dunkel 2 weeks ago and let it sit in primary for 2 weeks. Came out pretty close to FG and racked onto 5lbs of bananas last night. Within a hour or so, I had a little movement in the blowoff. Nothing crazy yet, but more signs this morning. This is my first time using...

What time do you usually start brewing?