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Yes it is high for a wit but thats because I put a kg of brewing sugar in there, it was lying around and I couldnt help it! The yeast should be able to take it up to 7% easily tho I would have thought? My irish beer yeast certainly had no problems with my Guiness clone taking it to around...

Okay please tell me if im being impatient on this one! I started a batch of Hoegarden 3 weeks ago using Wyeast 3944 wit. Initial OG of 1.070. It was going great for the first four days then sort of slowed down a lot ( one bubble a minute ) . It then crawled the second week and was at 1.040 ...

Cheers for the quick responses! I'm learning more and more that this brewing thing requires paitence! It is very stressfull at times but at least I have quality beer to enjoy to help deal with it :-)

Its around 60F so that would make sense. Wow these larger yeasts must need to be really cold! First larger ive done so im sort of in beer mode and thought it was easy cold enough - should have read the documentation with it should be between 48-55. Do you think this will affect the flavour a lot...

Hi! Well im having one of those months where everything doesnt seem to be working quite right. I pitched a nice hoegarden clone with some wit yeast it was really active and nearly foamed over the top of the primary after just one night then nothing! I seem to have restarted it after 3 days of...

Hello! Just finished my first all grain batch and took some photos of the process , click on info for details of each step Mission Hoegarden Has anyone else tried a Hoegarden Clone? this one came out pretty good ive done another with lemon and lime peel and tastes pretty interesting out of...