Recent content by sdalziel

I read on a thread for a different topic on now how someone steeped their specialty grains in a different method I never heard of. there were no comments to it so I wanted to pose one direct to it. The method was dunking the grains in cool water and bringing them up to the 170 degree and...

In all the recipes I have seen they say to use 155-170 F water to rinse the specialty grains after steeping and then add to the wort. Would there be problems if rinsing them with room temperature water 70 F? Just so I do not need to heat 2 pots of water??

I am about to brew a hefeweisen. Would it be better to bottle that style as soon as the FG is stable and not let it rest any additional time??

Almost all of the kit recipes I have seen say "after the beer is done fermenting go right to bottling". Now some friends, who have been doing this for 20+ years, say that is BS. They say after fermenting you rack and let stand for another 1-2 weeks. I am curious what the pros can cons are...

I guess that I have to trust the recipe... Attached is a copy, I am interested in feedback...

I will scan and post the full recipe/instructions tomorrow... I am just worried that this will turn out bad and won't know for another month...

It was full volume boil (170 F), 5 gallons for 1 hour

hmm... there were grains that needed steeping for 45 min, hops were adder after the steeping and again at last 15 min

I am a newbie so please bare with me... I received a beer brewing kit for xmas from the Beer & Wine Guild. It included all the equipment for brewing plus a Budweiser clone kit. I reviewed the instructions for the brew kit and noticed that it said only bring the wort to 170 F. I thought this...