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I making a weinhenstephaner clone (wheat beer with special weinhenstephaner yeast), fermenting around 68-70 steadily, and it fermented like crazy (blowoff needed) like most hefe's but the kraussen has yet to receed and it's going in to day 9. It receeded some but for 5 days or so its been about...

So if I choose to do a late extract addition, say with 30 minutes left in the boil, but the bittering hops obviously need to be added before, all I have boiling is hops and water? Thats ok, right?

Alright so I'm on a well system with one of those water softeners that uses salt to soften the water and supposedly nuetralize any hard elements (copper, iron, etc.?). The water tastes fine I suppose but before or salt treatment system, a reddish residue was left behind in places where the...

Has any used Muntons Carb Tabs? Described as priming sugar in tablet form and is made from dextrose, dry malt extract, and heading powder. Thinking about giving them a try but wanted to see if simply using dextrose to prime is better or if the tabs are better?

the banana flavor/aroma comes with a lot of hefes, especially if you use a hefe yeast. on top of that, i have read fermenting hefes at warmer temps (71 and up or so) enhances this banana/bubble gum aroma and flavor. by the way alot of people enjoy beers like that! so unless you reallly despise...

haha I just read that post but I'm still freaking out man! I think i need to brew up another batch to distract me...

I just opened up a bottle of my apricot ale after 8 days in primary and about 10 days in secondary. SG was a little bit above 1.06 and it dropped down to 1.012 or so and stayed there for a few days before I bottled. Now after being in the bottle for just over a week, I'm getting no CO2 bubbles...

sooo 3 weeks at 70 degrees seems to be the general concensus. and yes I'm impatient. who isn't with beer?! thanks guys though for the funny comments and tips.

I bottled my batch a little less than 4 days ago and popped one open to see if it had carbonated at all and how it tasted. Taste was good but no carbonation! Is it just too soon (I know it i suspposed to stay in bottles for 2 weeks about) or did all my yeast cells quit doing their job? I...

Sam Calagione's book is the one I use a lot. I'm just going to stick with 6.6 lbs. LME=6 lbs. DME. Rather have a little too much than not enough.

haha thanks for all the tips. ill post when it comes time to brew.

DFH! DFH! 1. DFH Midas Touch (freaking amazing) 2. DFH 60 IPA 3. DFH Shelter Pale Ale Did I mention I love DFH?

yea that seems to be the general concensus. I'm just going to use a little bit and see how it turns out. maybe i'll throw some bubblegum in there too...haha just kidding.

haha. no you don't sound like a jerk and thanks a lot for the tips!

My girlfriend is nagging me about making a "banana beer" so I formulated one based off of a Hefeweizen in hopes of getting that banana/bubblegum effect using WLP300 (Hefeweizen Ale yeast). But to accentuate it, at the very end of the boil I'm going to use either fresh or dried bananas to really...