My best hefe's have come about as a result of two things:
1. underpitching
2. single decoction mash
1. underpitching 3068( I make maybe a 0.5L starter or just pitch the smack pack) and get loads of banana. for a dunkelweizen that I wanted to tone down, I bumped it to 1L and kept the temp in...
I recently made and drank a home grown fresh hopped amber beer that I made exclusively with Cascades. While the beer was drinkable, I noticed a weird off-taste that I can only attribute to the hops. My additions were as follows
60 min 5 oz fresh cascades
30 min 5 oz fresh cascades
10 min 3 oz...
I was wondering if anyone has any tips for a stuck fermentation. This is my first lager, i pitched with 2 packets of dry saflager S-23 at 56F. This was a partial mash with 10lbs LME(2 dark, one amber) and 2 lbs of grain. SG was around 1.068, after 2.5 weeks, I've been getting gravity readings...